If you spend part of your day trying to solve Wordle, Connections. Strands and other puzzles from The New York Times, you can now add another temptation to the list. (CNET offers daily answers for Wordle, Connections, Strands, the Mini Crossword and Connections: Sports Edition.) On Wednesday, the New York Times’ Games department launched Crossplay, an app-based game very similar to the board game Scrabble. NYT Games said Crossplay is its first two-player game, playable against another player or the computer. It’s available for free on the New York Times Crossplay app on iOS and Android devices.  Crossplay joins a NYT Games portfolio that includes the extremely popular Wordle, Connections, Spelling Bee, Strands and others. The publication bought Wordle from developer Josh Wardle nearly four years ago, and the game was played more than 4 billion times in 2025. Connections, created by the NYT’s Wyna Liu for launch in 2023, was played more than 1.6 billion times in 2025. The Times said that “players around the world solved more than 11 billion puzzles across New York …