The puzzle book that never runs out.
Winters Puzzles is a multi-puzzle app for iPhone and iPad. It holds 32 different puzzles — numbers, words, logic, spatial, cards, trivia and quick arcade games — with a fresh daily mix, curated collections, and a way to write your own puzzle and send it to someone.
Winters Puzzles at a glance
| What is it? | A multi-puzzle app — many different puzzle types in one place. |
|---|---|
| Platforms | iPhone and iPad (iOS 18 or later). |
| Puzzles | 32, across 7 categories. |
| Categories | Numbers, Words, Logic, Spatial, Cards, Knowledge, Arcade. |
| Daily puzzles | Yes — Today’s Mix, 1–6 puzzles a day. See daily puzzles. |
| Collections | Coming soon — sets of ten puzzles worked through in order, including seasonal ones. |
| Create puzzles | Yes — six puzzle types. See create and share. |
| Share puzzles | Yes — as a link that carries the whole puzzle. Nothing is uploaded. |
| Account required | No. There is no Winters Puzzles account at all. |
| Offline | Yes. Puzzles are generated on the device. |
| Price | Free to download. Supported by ads. |
| App icons | Eleven to choose from — the default plus ten unlocked by watching a video. |
| iCloud sync | Optional, and off until you turn it on. |
| Developer | Winters Puzzles, an independent developer in the UK. |
Why it exists
The idea came from the puzzle books you buy at a station: a bit of everything, no commitment, and something to do with fifteen minutes. What those books do badly is run out — and what puzzle apps usually do badly is make you install a different one for every kind of puzzle you like.
So Winters Puzzles is one app with a lot of puzzles in it, where the boards are generated rather than drawn from a finite pack. There is no last page. If you finish a Sudoku there is another Sudoku, and if you are tired of Sudoku there are 31 other things to do instead.
How it is built
Nearly every puzzle is generated on your device and checked before you see it. A Sudoku or a Nonogram is verified to have exactly one solution; Minesweeper boards are built so they can always be cleared without guessing; Gridlock’s par is the genuine minimum number of moves for that exact board.
That verification is the expensive part, and it is the part most worth doing. A puzzle that cannot be solved by reasoning is not a hard puzzle — it is a broken one, and it is the fastest way to lose somebody’s trust.
The card games are the deliberate exception. Solitaire and Spider deals are a real shuffle, so some of them cannot be won — which is also true of a physical deck, and part of the game.
What it does not do
- No account, and no email address collected to play.
- No subscription.
- No streak-shaming, and one daily reminder at most — off unless you ask for it.
- Puzzles you write are never uploaded. They travel inside the link you send.
The full detail is in the privacy policy.
Get in touch
Winters Puzzles is made by one independent developer in the UK. If you have found a bug, have an idea, or want to write about the app, email [email protected] — there is a press page with assets and descriptions on it too.
Ready to turn the page?
There’s always another puzzle waiting.
