How to Play CodyCross

1. CodyCross maps have several parts to them. Within a map, you'll have puzzles arranged on different levels. While you won't have to learn the types of maps and their parts, it's essentially a good idea to learn how they are set up to know how the puzzles are arranged.

   • Groups : Groups contain sets of five puzzles to be solved. As you solve puzzles, you'll complete groups. You complete groups to move on to the next group. Puzzle group buttons are purple with white text inside an oval button with yellow border rings positioned in the layer.
     • Greyed-out buttons are disabled groups you won't be able to open until you've completed your current group of puzzles.
     • As of April 19, 2025, there are currently 1940 groups.
   • Treasure Chest Groups : After every 3 groups, you'll come across special puzzle helpers and CodyCross Library Bitz. Once you begin a Treasure Chest group, there will be a treasure chest progress bar at the bottom of the Group screen, designating how many of the puzzles from that group you have completely solved. When the treasure chest group finishes, you'll be pushed to open this chest to collect your freebies.
     • • If you end up having issues before being asked to open the chest and have to force-close the app, the chest will remain closed, though the CodyCross marker will move. Tap the unopened chest space, and it will push these to you instead after tapping the "See what's inside" and "Claim your prizes."
   • Maps : Twenty groups make up a map. Your first map is called Earth (on iPhone)/ ( Planet Earth (on Android) denoted by the words or phrases at the center top of the screen's app window.
   • New maps come out at a cycle of one map per month, ^[1] generally by the first Friday of the month (iPhone) or first Thursday of the month (Android). However, map updates happen silently in-app now, a few days before the map updates appear for players.
     • As of April 19, 2025, there are currently 97 maps in various topics.
     • After you solve the twenty groups in the first map, you'll proceed to the following map - Under the Sea , Inventions , and so on.
     • Scroll the map across the screen to view the entire picture. Watch as you complete groups in this map to see the picture. As you scroll along with the map's picture, the top and bottom information bars will disappear and reappear once you've taken your finger off the screen.
     • Tap the arrow buttons to move between maps if you'd like to look ahead or back. These arrows at the far right and left of the map allow you to "push" CodyCross to the next map. But pushing him ahead using this button still won't give you access to the next map until you solve all incomplete puzzle groups.
   • Pathways : Circular dot pathways connect all the groups. However, these pathways do nothing other than provide a look at where CodyCross's spaceship is about to travel on the map's surface.
   • Puzzles : Puzzles contain a progress bar (at the puzzles' left) and a Play button (to its right). They are shown as Puzzle 1, Puzzle 2, Puzzle 3, Puzzle 4, and Puzzle 5 until they are solved and completed, then they will show you the puzzle's vertical word and a checkmark.
     • Partial progress or unsolved puzzles will result in the lock of other groups on the map. In-progress bars will display beneath the play button for each puzzle as they remain unsolved.
     • As of April 19, 2025, there are 9,700 puzzles based on the current total number of maps and puzzles.

1. Tap the green and white Play (▶) button to the right of the status bar and puzzle number. This section you'll need to pay particular attention to because this is the prominent area of the screen you'll need to know.

   • Banners : You'll find a banner containing the button to change the appearance of your CodyCross icon and to collect additional tokens as you complete maps. Following this to their right, you'll spot the map name banner and button to fix CodyCross settings and report clues (called Words)
     • Below this but still considered the top of the screen, you'll spot information about your Daily Streak (talked about later), Bitz, and tokens (along with a trigger button to get you to your token shop if there are free tokens to grab. This area will change based on what CodyCross feels you'll need in each area.
   • Puzzle area : The puzzle area contains lines where clues awaiting answers are found. Puzzle lines contain the same number of characters from line to line, but puzzle letter amounts will differ from puzzle to puzzle.
   • Power-ups (cheats): These helpers are shown between your puzzle and clue lines. At first, you'll only have access to the first power-up: the single-letter puzzle solver, but as you advance through the groups, the more types of cheat types you'll be able to accept and use.
     • Tokens can be used to unlock accessible power-ups, but tokens often remain unused in-game for players who excel at solving clues.
     • Players can, at the end, be asked to collect power-ups after completing puzzles that are available to be used on subsequent puzzles, as well as inside puzzles if you've solved other puzzles and seem to be stumbling, waiting for a line to solve.
   • Clues : Clues to solve are shown, as each line you advance from line to line in the Puzzle area. There is a 1:1 correlation (clue-puzzle line). Clues are shown on a blue/purple bar in white text.
     • On small mobile devices, your clue is below the puzzle lines. On tablets, this is shown to the left of each solvable line.
     • At either end of the bar (or puzzle lines portion for tablets), arrow buttons move you up and down the puzzle lines one line at a time - completely skipping those you've solved correctly.
   • CodyCross Keyboard : CodyCross' keyboard appears below the clue line. Keys appear with a purple background and always show white-texted all-cap letters with a backspace button as the right bottom-most button.
   • CodyCross uses its app-only keyboard because CodyCross only wants you to use alphabetic characters to solve its puzzles.
   • CodyCross provides additional keyboard themes, but these cost Bitz from the Customize Shop on your Stats page, and can vary in Bitz price.
     • Audible chimes tell you as you fill in letters of the answer and as answers are correctly answered or are backspaced through text, with other chimes as you complete lines.
   • Other player icons : CodyCross now displays other players who are currently positioned on each level, but you can't play against them anymore. You can turn off this feature in your settings page (from Show other players on map ).
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1. CodyCross uses a systemized approach to showing you the differences between lines.

   • The boxes to the line based on the clue are designated by filled-in yellow boxes. Yet, there is a special bonus line talked about later, which is pink.
   • Grey is incorrectly filled lines of letters.
   • Black is a completely correct solution.
     • If even one letter is off, the word will remain gray until that letter is corrected. However, by default, CodyCross has the game wipe incorrect word solves if you make any mistake. But this feature can be turned off via your Settings (called Erase wrong word ).
     • As lines finalize, strobes appear as the grey text turns black and pulls letters from that answer into other unsolved rows in random patterns throughout the puzzle. The letters it uses are based on the words you correctly solved, while towards the end, some lines may not populate any at all.
   • Keep an eye out for the split-phasing feature. Because CodyCross often uses word phrases, if an answer line consists of two or more words, a set of up and down arrows points to the location of the end of one word and where the next word begins. ^[2]
     • This was an added feature from 2021 that's gone well for users and is well-appreciated.
     • If you find a clue where the phrase split is incorrect or not placed, you can report the word in the menu drop-down, like reporting a clue or answer, but by selecting "Other" instead, and notifying the team of the phrase splitting being a problem and how it should read.
   • Learn about the special bonus (pink) line. Your special pink drop-down line is a special set of words or phrases that connect these lines to the map name. These items can be anything from nouns to verbs and adjectives, to people and ideas!
     • If at any time you want to solve just this section, double-tap one of the boxes from this area, and fill in all missing letters as the puzzle advances.
       • If you don't know the complete answer, you can double-tap again to go back to traditional clue solving..

1. Solve lines of the puzzle using CodyCross' onscreen keyboard.

   • Very few ties between the puzzle and the map's name will exist, so if you encounter one, be thankful and solve it quickly.
   • Watch out for clues as to how CodyCross wants the word answered.
     • Watch for single/pluralized used clues (designating single/plural word solutions). Pluralized clues will often yield pluralized answers. Single-mentioned clues will often yield single-form answers.
     • Watch for gerund use, because suffixes in the clue often designate the suffixes used in the answer. Watch for ed's, ing's, and many more as you go through and mark them accordingly.
       • Though CodyCross is now removing partially filled-in responses if you leave a puzzle, if you plan to stay for a bit, try to fill these in as you work your way down a puzzle.
     • Spot how clues fit together; you might receive names, and you'll have to find out what they all have in common, fitting them together to form your answer.
     • Some puzzles - mentioned later - such as your Daily Crosswords - will often give you clues as to words to abbreviate and occasionally abbreviated words that you'll have to answer what they relate to in normal-speak.
     • Traditionalists fill in the easiest clues first, skipping the unknown clues, and working their way back through the puzzle a second (sometimes a third) time.
       • As you fill in lines, CodyCross will transpose additional letters throughout the remainder of the puzzle into their proper places on other lines as correct answers.
     • Give your best guess. It may yield a correct answer.
       • You may end up asking questions to get the correct answer on the web or through speech devices such as Alexa, Hey Google, and Siri. However, you may end up needing to ask this more as a question rather than a direct response based on the clue's verbiage.
       • There are also cheating methods, but this article frowns upon these cheats, including researching by duplicating the clue into a search engine such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, or some other search engine.
         • There is the Game Solver for CodyCross website (which continuously updates with new levels as they are added), but the remainder of the cheat websites have stopped updating since mid-2020 and include CodyCrossAnswers and PuzzleAnswers .
         • Very few places online host Today's Password cheats for mentioning the word of the day. These can be found at here and here . However, every so often these sites miss answering the day's word and sometimes makes mistakes and copies the answer from days before; so be forewarned that these aren't infallible sites.
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1. CodyCross contains four types of power-ups/cheats as you progress.

   • Single Letter Power-Up : This power-up you'll get from the first puzzle to solve. It allows you to drag and drop power-ups onto unsolved letter blocks. Drop them where you need them until the letter block turns bright yellow.
     • Letter reveals (if you don't have bonus power-ups) cost 1 token per letter. ^[3]
     • In a random Facebook post, CodyCross called these power-up critters "Dibz." ^[4] Dibz becomes fascinated with lights and is CodyCross's best friend. ^[5]
   • Random Reveal Power-Up : This power-up will reveal random letters throughout the puzzle on various lines. However, these will cost two tokens if you don't have bonus power-ups for them. ^[6]
     • In a random Facebook post, CodyCross called these power-up critters "Liz". ^[7] Liz is cautious and confident but loves the deep blue sea, especially the rain she believes is in a map of its own. ^[8]
   • Letter Simplifier Power-Up : This power-up will disable unused characters for the clue line you select when you drag and drop them onto solvable line, but takes two tokens if you don't have any bonuses of them available. ^[9]
     • In a random Facebook post, CodyCross called these power-up critters "Voltz". ^[10] Voltz is an expert speller but can be a bit impatient with several languages and can collect an anagram but helps CodyCross run his spaceship. ^[11]
   • Full-Line Solver Power-Up : This power-up will reveal every letter on a line as its correct answer, but if you don't have bonuses of them, it will take three tokens to use. ^[12]
     • In a random Facebook post, CodyCross called these power-up critters "Twiz". ^[13] Twiz is fast but practical, and loves weather vanes. ^[14]
   • Learn what you'll receive if you have no additional tokens and no bonus power-ups available to be used. In this stage, you'll receive a dialog box saying "You need more tokens" and asking you to get "More Tokens".
   • CodyCross now provides ways to customize these power-up display characters, and even offered to get one of them for free for you from the Customize Shop.

1. Focus on the screen format for the finale screen.

   • Watch as the first layer of the screen displays - the Bitz puzzle fill. The Bitz puzzle fill will fill in blocks, allowing you to obtain bonus Bitz used for the library, and at certain spots, you can obtain bonuses. But you can get free extra spots filled to get you to bonuses after your first puzzle within six hours after viewing an advertisement video.
     • If you don't want to add another box, you can press Continue to skip that Bitz bonus within the period.
       • Players who don't have CodyCross subscriptions can only receive up to 400 bonus Bitz. But those on subscriptions will be eligible for up to 800 Bitz in this same period.
       • The first "level," - up to the first 100 Bitz - will require solving just 2 puzzles. However, more levels have graduated sizing to the next 100 Bitz, and more to the next 100 Bitz, etc.
   • Another area to its right is the purple bonus word/phrase that is seen. This phrase is encapsulated in a yellow oval box with black lettering. It has no functionality other than to be seen and read.
   • To that's right, you should find additional freebie power-ups. These can be valuable, but will often be repeatedly annoying, because they require you to watch an advertisement video.
   • Two other buttons are shown.
     • A Continue button allows you to move on to your group screen (iPhone). This is often what people click on first.
     • A View Puzzle button below that, gets you back to the finished puzzle to show you all the completed answers in the puzzle, or to get you back to the puzzle to report clues/answers if the last clue/answer answered is reportable.
     • Other buttons may replace these and include Share (for CodyCross Classic (once rated), Today's Password, and Daily Crossword puzzles) to share and mention that you've solved them and to invite others to join you on CodyCross.
   • Rate this question : This section asks you to rate a clue-answer clue pair. As of December 1, 2023, CodyCross displays pairs from clues other users have solved. A thumbs-up and thumbs-down are included, and you are the one to choose between the two at your rating preference.
     • Guesses Chart : After a Today's Password try, whether through correctly solving or incorrectly solving, Rate this question will be swapped for your Guesses chart, and show how today's answer relates to all the other guesses in your Password puzzle career.
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1. CodyCross has some useful bonuses to collect.

   • Bonus Power-ups - as described earlier - gives you excellent cheats that allow you to be helped on various puzzles.
   • Person icons - gives you additional personal player icons - changing the way you appear to your friends and colleagues. However, even then, not all person icons are available without purchasing them via large amounts of tokens.
   • Tokens - for completing maps and various other Achievements.
     • In this section, you can find various achievements where you can collect tokens, but each item can vary in tokens awarded. Completing each map gives ten tokens each, along with various other goodies for reaching certain Library levels with Bibliophile (10 tokens) and Bookworm (20 tokens), and for solving 1 puzzle (10 tokens), 10 puzzles (10 tokens), 50 puzzles (15 tokens), 150 puzzles (20 tokens), and 500 puzzles (50 tokens).
   • Bitz - for buying books at the CodyCross Library.
   • CodyCross Library Map Books - As you complete maps, you'll receive in-game notifications that new books from your CodyCross Library are being added, and will show you readable snippets of factoids you may not have known before related to these books' names and topics.
     • Map books have curiosities (snippets) about the Maps and are available for all Maps. (As you'll see later, some missions - like Expeditions, Mini Quests, and Secret Trails - have them too.)
     • For players who joined a long time ago and are just returning, seeing this article, and getting the refresher view, CodyCross is adamant that they won't credit you for missed books from other maps. Instead, they are adding them as books to pick up in the CodyCross Library.
   • CodyCross Splash Screen Upgrades : At various intervals starting at 1000 consecutive days of your Daily Streak number, the CodyCross mascot will get various upgrades from new insignias to visual goodies. However, players have only seen what 1,000 days will get them since this only began in 2021.
   • Sprint Volt Points : Each puzzle solved in a CodyCross sprint will net you 10 "points" which look like electric volts. However, winning first, second, and third place at these special events can net you additional things based on the above, like Bitz, tokens, and power-ups.

Unless otherwise mentioned, these game modes are available under the Events tab.

1. Learn about other game modes. |

   • Sprint : Sprints provide you with ways to get additional bonus points if you win by solving puzzles throughout the app. You can obtain points by playing the maps, the missions, the package puzzles, the daily crossword, today's password, or another CodyCross puzzle within the app.
     • The leader with the most points wins 3,000 Bitz, 2nd place wins 2000 Bitz, and 3rd place wins 1,000 Bitz. You can sign up between every Friday at 6 pm and every Sunday at 6 pm - and each Sprint ends 1 day later. (Each puzzle solved gives you 10 electric volts.)
     • However, you must be past map group 60 to participate in this event. ^[15]
   • Missions : Missions provide you with additional puzzles that you can complete, from standard puzzle play to crossword-like puzzles in 25-30 puzzle varieties. These events have an expiration time which may be from a few days to some lasting to the end of the month in which they were started. However, each has its own expiry time, which can vary widely.
     • These puzzles require energy, (and if you don't have their paywalled subscription which gives unlimited energy), you will start with enough energy for only three puzzles then move past that into the fourth and subsequent puzzles needing you to watch advertisement videos, or watch the clock tick down for 30 minutes per puzzle. The energy will be restored to three new energies for additional puzzles.
     • Unlike all other puzzle types, you can't get back to previously-played puzzles once you select Continue to move on after completing a puzzle. However, the ability to view the complete puzzle still exists before tapping "Continue." Be forewarned that this is standard practice for these event types.
     • Expeditions and Mini Quests : These provide the user with standard puzzle-play. You use the same rules above, only in these puzzles with topics named on the banner for those on the vertical line phrase. After the sixth, fifteenth, and thirtieth puzzles, will you receive (through Treasure Chests) power-ups, Bitz, and (at the end) a CodyCross book.
       • Mini Quests have fewer lines to solve, making them shorter and quicker to complete, but the ease of these can sometimes be tricky, too.
     • Secret Trails : These special puzzles may look like ordinary CodyCross puzzles, but aren't. As you work into lines of letters, some letters that include a graphic are transcribed into other lines containing that same graphic. Once all those letters are transcribed correctly, more letters fall into place. If the remainder of the puzzle isn't correct, you won't be told what's wrong, and nothing will advance you until they are 100% correct.
       • Themes are built into these special graphical tiles, which parallel the vertical lines of standard puzzle-play. If they are, you finish that. After the fifth, twelfth, and twenty-fifth puzzles, will you receive (through Treasure Chests) power-ups and Bitz and (at the end) a CodyCross book.
     • LunaCross : These puzzles, much like CodyCross' sister app, provide large, crossword puzzle word jumbles for you to solve. Based on the Daily Crossword brackets, many clues come up in a large area to solve, and you have to drag to switch letters from the puzzle into the displayed clue listed in the yellow-orange border onscreen. Once all letters are placed inside each clue in the requested order, you'll have solved the puzzle. After the fourth, tenth, and twentieth puzzles, will you receive (through Treasure Chests) power-ups and Bitz.
     • Voyages : These puzzles are crossword puzzles of the standard form - similar to your Daily Crosswords blocked puzzles. These will give you additional Bitz and power-ups at the end, with smaller Bitz at sporadic intervals. After the sixth, fifteenth, and thirtieth puzzles, will you receive (through Treasure Chests) power-ups and Bitz.
   • Daily Crosswords : Two puzzles formed like traditional crosswords are released daily, solely from the Events page. These puzzles avoid a common theme and don't have a vertical-down line.
     • You'll have two puzzles to solve - a Small one and a Midsize one. The screen's functions have less functionality to help you (just the Single Letter Power-Up and Multiple Letters Power-Up exist), but some can be solved quickly if you know the answers to these clues. Solve all clues to finish the crossword.
     • New daily crosswords are released at midnight your local time, regardless of when you last solved the puzzles. Older unsolved and solved puzzles get sent to the Archive (through the Archive button below the Daily Puzzles section), where you can continue these puzzles or open up unopened/missed puzzles.
       • If you attempted the puzzle but never finished it, but have successfully solved at least one clue correctly, you can open them without other actions. However, if you missed solving all the puzzle clues, these unsolved puzzles require you to watch an advertisement video or buy them with CodyCross tokens.
     • Archives have every puzzle ever offered, dating back to March 2021, when this feature was released. However, if you solved the first day of the first month's crosswords, it will take two days for CodyCross to start a new monthly group for that month and allow you to go back to those clue-answer pairs.
     • To get this feature, you have to have solved all puzzles from Group 1 through Group 4. After that, it's stipulation-free.
       • Solving Archived puzzles won't help you continue a lost streak or extend the streak to older dates. However, they help in recognizing and solving clues in a potential knowledge database for duplicate clues at future times.
   • Today's Password : Today's Password is much like Wordle. CodyCross gives you either a 5 or 6-letter word to guess and gives you up to six tries to get it. Guess it right and you'll start a Victory Streak of consecutive days. If you don't get it right within those tries, too bad - you'll lose your Victory Streak and not be told the answer. Each time you input a word, you must submit the word with the submit button just below the Today's Password/Wordle puzzle board.
     • If you got the word incorrect after the 6th try and want to know the answer and have CodyCross tokens: Spend five tokens to get the correct word, ^[16] but you'll still lose your victory and start over at the next cycle when you get the word correctly.
     • Green letters show correctly-placed letters, while yellow shows that the letters are in the puzzle, but not in the correct place. However, by tapping the color inverted on the flip-switch between the puzzle and keyboard, you can change them so the colors are blue and yellow instead.
     • Formerly, CodyCross occasionally gave you 4-letter words, but at one point, it was asked on the CodyCross Facebook group, then another one came out, and 4-letter words became discontinued in late 2022!
     • Some Daily Password-solver sites have mentioned that 7-letter words are possible. However, these never been the case in regular use. They might have been used by CodyCross beta testers when they were tried, but they didn't last and weren't used again. This is no record of Beta testing answers, with these beta tests being very old and outdated and archived deep down into most solving sites' memory banks, out of the way of the public's view.
   • Themed Packs : In this section of the puzzles, you will be provided with additional CodyCross Classic puzzles in various themes and challenge levels for a total of 20 puzzles per pack: Piece of Cake, Easy, Medium, and Hard. However, each puzzle will cost two CodyCross tokens to play. The pack selection lines are swipeable to see other packs available. This is a no-longer updated section, but the games played here still work.
     • Themed Packs are impossible to remove from your Recently Played section once first opened/tapped, located above the puzzle packs you can choose. However, if you don't want to play these after opening them, just avoid this section, as not even CodyCross can remove these from your account even when contacted.
     • Old played packs won't be removed after being played, but will show a green and white circular checkmark when they get finished, in each button's lower right corner.
   • Daily Streak Chart : If you solve one puzzle each day without missing a day (except for puzzles in the Missions section), you will keep your Daily Streak going. The longer you keep the streak going, the better your prizes will be for solving these puzzles on the eighth consecutive day and the start of a new seven-day period. Information on where you are in the streak is shown below the Archive button in the section labeled "Daily Streak" on the Events tab.
     • Any finished puzzle solves within CodyCross will continue your streak, regardless of the placement of these puzzles! However, if you miss solving a complete crossword and come back the following day to solve another, you will be prompted to keep the streak going by watching a video ad or paying ten CodyCross tokens.
     • Players who have lost the streak because of an app glitch or bug, or with special conditions, are asked to contact Fanatee with the in-app contact option and let them know your reasoning for reinstating the last-known number of days you've played consecutively - and be completely honest!
   • Secret Messages : Can be played based on a friend-created board sent to you, or created through your CodyCross app.
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1. In the right corner next to your tokens section, you'll find a hamburger menu for all your settings.

   • From the basic list found inside the drop-down inside all CodyCross pages of the map view, you can turn on and off the Music and Sound with toggle switches by tapping on each item.
   • However, by tapping "Settings" from this same list, you'll have access to more settings, all of which are toggle switches.
     • Here, you'll spot additional spots to toggle on and off Sounds and Music .
       • If you don't hear sounds and you have not touched your music-sounds options, check your vibration slider switch. CodyCross relies on having that slider switch so the device isn't in Silent Mode while playing. However, if you don't want to hear the sound during ads, slide your vibration switch to produce Silent Mode on your device.
     • Hard mode : Allows your puzzles clues to become harder. However, this setting gives you harder clues and will revert you to Group 1 of harder clues upon clicking its Continue button.
     • Skip Filled squares : Allows your puzzle list to skip over squares that are filled with correct letters, and is a good idea to keep this on. But if this is off and the first character is filled in correctly, it will still skip that character up until the first character in the word, where the letters will need to be filled in.
     • Erase wrong word : Removes all incorrect letters from the word. (Word for the wise who can't type well on mobile, turn this off or the puzzle will remove all your letters after you've typed them (in the wrong spots).
     • Select first slot : Moves your space selector to the first slot.
       • This setting can be painful to have on, if you have erase wrong word turned off. If you try to correct one letter outside of the first letter, the game will seem like the cursor won't move, and you can't move into this letter's box. Try to keep this one turned off.
     • Vibration : Get vibrations for every character press in a puzzle and during correct/incorrect line solves.
       • This feature should work, regardless of your vibration switch setting.
     • Make sure the Country is set to your country and your Language is set to your language. Although you'll initially be set up to run English CodyCross when you first enter, you can change the language and run two or more language versions, switching between them with this drop-down box.
       • The eleven languages they provide are English, Portuguese. Spanish, Italian, German, French, Turkish, Dutch, Russian, Korean, and Japanese. ^[17]
     • Look out for Social Sign-ins. One controls your ability to sync between phones (if your phone gets changed or is stolen) - Facebook - and the other is for Apple/Google (iPhone/Android), and it has been noted lately that this also controls sign-in syncing from select devices.
     • Save Progress : Pressing this button will log you into Facebook to synchronize your game data, so if you transfer between devices, this won't be lost.
       • There is no direct in-Facebook version of CodyCross that's available to be played over the Facebook website.
     • Help : This is the Help menu. It displays buttons to connect you to Fanatee Customer Service and displays all their FAQ details.
     • Privacy Policy , Terms of Service , Reset Progress and Manage Data : Display the "Small print" for both your utilization of the app and their needs to provide details for their systems.
       • Manage Data also gives you the ability to remove all your data with the "Erase Personal Data" and close your account at the very bottom of that screen.
   • Report Word : Report clue and solution word issues. If you ever experience either wrong answers or inaccurate information or even a mistype of a clue that CodyCross has made, you can report them. Find the clue that needs fixing, and tap the OK button once it's been selected in the slider. Tell them the reason for using the next slider and press OK. Fill in the Explanation in the email to the CodyCross Reports Line at codycrossreportword@fanatee.com. Once complete, submit the report, explaining what's happening and why you feel it's wrong. Send it off once your report is complete.
     • Avoid using the direct email link above, as Fanatee needs the propagated additional information when you click the link inside the app to contact them.
   • Other possible choices in various places:
     • What's New gives you a rundown of the newest features CodyCross has added and changed.
     • CodyCross World gives you additional information about each character and power-up mentioned here - all details included already.
     • More Games gives you choices to look at other Fanatee-owned games and a quick link to these in your App Store (iPhone) or Google Play Store (Android).

1. Although not devoted much to "playing", there is a method to Fanatee's madness in "learning" from the CodyCross Library. However, it's two parts under one tabbed "roof."

   • Library : As you complete puzzles and maps, you'll be given Bitz, a point-like system used to buy Bitz-based curiosity (snippet) books in the CodyCross Library. The books are placed on your Bookshelf, and once you have enough, you'll level up (with graduated leveling).
     • As your Library grows, you'll earn experience points so that your Library can grow. Each theme has unlimited bookshelves that can be stocked with eight books on a shelf.
     • Use your Bitz often and keep buying books.
     • Buying books - regardless of purchase type - gives experience points to the next Library level. But, the amount you get for each book isn't equal to the original purchase price, but rather preset values leveling according to CodyCross. With books at 500 Bitz, 2000 Bitz, and 2500-5000-10000 Bitz, there's a lot to using Bitz that will, by the end, just seem to pile up.
     • Green titles are completed Bookshelves, and white titles are partially filled shelves.
     • On the Library bookshelf page, you'll see your bookshelf level and progress to the next level.
   • Bookstall : Your Bookstall is your bookstore where you can buy CodyCross books, and a place where you can earn free daily Bitz (25 Bitz) and two advertisement-heavy hourly Bitz (25 Bitz times two advertisements for 50 additional per hour). Each tile lists how much the book will be, except the daily (refreshing each midnight) Free Bitz collection (ad-free) and hourly collections, and you can tap these entries to buy the books.
     • As of April 19, 2025, there are bookstalls for Anthology, Celebrations, Cinema, Entertainment, Fauna, Flora, Food and drinks, History, Music, Sports, Technology, and Tourism.
       • However, there's talk of major changes to Bookstalls in the future. But that change hasn't happened for US/North American players yet.
     • You can also Update Offers on your Bookstall page with other unpurchased books, using your CodyCross tokens. At first, Updating Offers to these shelves will cost five Tokens, but upon the second Update, it'll cost ten tokens - found on a button at the very bottom of the Bookstall - so spend your tokens wisely.
     • Books have a small spread (curiosity) for each book you open, and when purchasing a book. ^[18]
     • Some new books you can purchase daily with real money - no Bitz or tokens needed. These have a yellow banner and button, and on their yellow button, they have their price as an in-app purchase.
     • You'll find how many Bitz points you have near the top left of your Bookstall page.
     • Don't see new books and have received your daily Bitz? No problem, have patience; more books periodically. New books get added with almost every App Store/Google Play Store update.
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1. Tokens : CodyCross makes money through people's use of purchases. Although Apple and Google also make money off these same purchases, people can often find it useful to purchase goodies when their supply depletes. The purchasable ones change monetary values often through greed and the economy's inflation.

   • A pack of 20 tokens is $1.99, 56 tokens and a week of ad-free game-play is $4.99, 120 tokens and 1 month of ad-free gameplay is $9.99, 320 tokens and 3 months of ad-free gameplay is $24.99, or 750 tokens and 6 months of ad-free gameplay is $49.99!
   • CodyCross also gives users additional Offers (sets of different helpers), found above the Get Tokens section of the page. However, the sets have changed over time, as well as the prices of these sets.
   • Free Tokens :
     • Tokens can be obtained for free, too, but you must watch a video (per token) first. Select the 1 Token slot's video-camera button, watch the video after closing the video up, and collect your free token (using the Collect button). You can run this twice in 60 minutes, with a timer set to prevent collecting others, but the timer doesn't display if you only collected one of them and not the other.
     • Towards the bottom of the page, CodyCross reminds you that you can sign up for the Facebook Group and get 20 free tokens each for inviting friends to try CodyCross with your link towards the bottom of the page.
   • Bitz : Use your Tokens to buy Bitz for the CodyCross Library. With Bitz in sets of 2000 (for 50 Tokens), 10k (for 200 tokens), and 45k (for 750 tokens), you'll need to save up quite a lump sum of tokens for purchasing these - if you can't make it to collect enough tokens from the Bookstall.
   • Cogni Shields : Purchase Cogni Shields to protect your Daily Streak from expiring - or even for a rainy day when things go amiss and you end up accidentally or intentionally missing completing a puzzle. Each Cogni Shield you purchase is 5 tokens, and you may "buy" up to two shields.
     • Shields don't expire until they are used, and you can check how many shields you own after clicking "Activate" inside the Cogni Shields banner on the Shop page.
   • Premium Access : Although most players refuse to sign up because of financial burdens, Premium Access provides benefits, more puzzles, and helpers than you have without this plan's in-app add-on.
     • You can learn more by clicking the "Learn More" button inside the "Premium Access" banner directly underneath the "More Products" banner.
   • On an iPhone, your options to pay with Apple Pay or a credit card attached to your Apple ID will show. Android phones will have different default payment options, depending on your device.

1. Not much here to play in the Social tab. However, there are some places you can use to get social with other CodyCross players and the CodyCross by Fanatee team.

   • Join the CodyCrossCommunity : CodyCross also has the CodyCross Community Facebook Group designed for fans. In that group, you can get help from other CodyCross players, and CodyCross/Fanatee staff even checks in on posts to help out. CodyCross mentions give-aways here, but you have to respond quickly with the right answer on some. However, you often see posts of others saying how they've reached the end, with CodyCross saying to wait until next month.
   • Invite : Invite your friends. Just tap the "Invite" button. For every friend who joins, you'll receive various rewards. Send CodyCross to as many friends as you can and see who joins using your code to try it out.
     • This feature used to give just 20 Tokens, but now gives varied rewards from tickets to tokens, to books, and tokens and tickets, based on how many invites actually signed up using their code inside their message, basing it back to your account.
   • Secret Message : Create Secret Message puzzles for your friends to share. Tap the Create button inside the "Secret Message" section, create your message, and press Continue. When you've decided the phrase is what you want to convey from what your friends will see in the vertical-down line, tap the Share button and share the game with friends, making sure the link to the game is included.
   • Join : Find links to join the CodyCross game's following page on Facebook , Instagram , and X (formerly called Twitter) (however, CodyCross hasn't changed the wording or icon to the X name/icon yet, as of April 19, 2025).
     • CodyCross hasn't mentioned their account connection to their TikTok account from this section. However, they don't have many viewers there, so they frown on broadcasting that publicly.
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