Cricket Nuffy: Word & Quiz

A cricket word game where every answer is cricket. Swipe letters on the wheel to fill a crossword grid with yorkers, googlies, doosras and sledges, then find the cricketers hidden in each player round. The puzzles, clues and quiz are in English.

Player rounds
On every fourth level the whole grid is cricketers' names, and a banner says so before you start. You get seven letters and have to find the players in them. The names come from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, England, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the West Indies and Afghanistan, and the women's game is in there too. Team rounds ask for the big sides by name, nickname or scoreboard short form, like AUS or PAK.

Nuffy's notes
Find a word and a one-line note shows what it means: what a snick is, which way a googly turns, who a surname belongs to. Once the grid is done, the level-clear screen lists the notes for every word, so you can read back over the ones you guessed. Many of the bonus words you find come with a dictionary meaning too.

How a level works
Each level hides two to eight words. There's no timer and no lives, so take your time over the long ones. Clear a grid without a wrong word for the Flawless bonus. Stuck? Your first Reveal is free. After that you spend Runs to reveal a letter, Snick a tile of your choice or reveal a whole word. Shuffling the wheel costs nothing.

Nuffy Quiz
A cricket trivia quiz of ten questions a round, drawn from a bank of 513 on the laws, World Cup finals, records, grounds, nicknames, women's cricket, the associate nations and the franchise T20 leagues. Every answer comes with a line on why, so you learn something even when you miss. Right answers earn Runs up to a daily limit, ten out of ten without the Third umpire earns a bonus, and your lifetime score climbs a ladder from Tail-ender to Legend.

25 grounds, 500 levels
Every level you clear puts a Nuffy in your stands and lights up another block of seats. Twenty levels pack a ground out and open the next one on the map. The grounds start in the nets and on a village green, then travel through the subcontinent, the Caribbean and franchise night cricket to the Long Room. Each Nuffy is named after the word that earned it, and the album keeps them all. Spend Runs on decorations for your ground and new colours for your Nuffies.

A puzzle every day
A new daily cricket word puzzle pays out Runs and a golden Nuffy for the album. Miss a day for a match, a wedding or a long weekend and your streak pauses where it was. It doesn't drop back to zero.

Offline, no account
Levels, the daily puzzle and the quiz all work without a connection. You don't make an account, and your progress stays on your phone.

Ads, and nothing to buy
Cricket Nuffy is free and shows ads. Rewarded ads are optional: watch one for a free hint or extra Runs. Full-screen ads only appear after you leave a level-clear screen, never during a puzzle or the quiz. Nothing is for sale. You earn every hint, decoration and colour by playing, or by watching an optional ad.

Your privacy
There is no account. Where the law asks for it, we ask for your consent before ads start, and you can change your choice in Settings. The privacy policy explains what is collected.

Word lists are based on SCOWL; credits and licences are in Settings. Cricket Nuffy is an independent fan game, not affiliated with or endorsed by any cricket board, league, team or player. Player names appear only as puzzle answers, clues and quiz answers.