Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to XW Stats
Personalized and global statistics for NYT crossword puzzles
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. XW Stats launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A Chrome Extension that provides hints for NYT puzzles.
2023 · botswananetball.org · its alternatives →
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Detailed metrics and charts for your Twitter threads
2022 · ilo.so · its alternatives →
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Q-Stats 3.0▲156Free marketing & SEO insights for every question on Quora.
2021 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Word Counter▲249A simple, beautiful word and character counter
2018 · wordcounter.io · its alternatives →
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Solutions and hints for the NYTimes Letter Boxed word game.
2023 · letterboxedplus.com · its alternatives →
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A real-time word count and milestone markers in Google Docs.
2018 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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As a fan of dense New York Times-style crosswords, I challenged myself to create topic-specific puzzles. It turns out that generating crosswords and efficiently placing words is a non-trivial computational problem. I started the project, "Joystick Jargon" combining traditional crossword elements with gaming-related vocabulary. Here's the technical process behind it: 1. Data Source: Used a 3.8 Million Rows Reddit dataset from Hugging Face (https://huggingface.co/datasets/webis/tldr-17). 2. Data Filtering: Narrowed down to gaming-related subreddits (r/gaming,…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Create custom crossword puzzles in seconds
Jun 2026 · freewww.com · its alternatives →
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KWatch.io▲68Monitor specific keywords on Reddit, X (Twitter), HN...
2024 · kwatch.io · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I'm a big fan of Wordle and I originally got this idea from seeing people gripe about Wordle suddenly being "harder" than usual. Wondering if this was true, I set out to snoop around the NYT's publicly available data, which gave me some pretty cool insights. I've put some of them on this simple site made with React and Claude. There's a grand total of 7 visualizations, with some fun little touches here and there. My favorite is probably "Clairvoyant Guesses," which shows some (to put it nicely) suspicious day-to-day guessing patterns. There's also a fun little easter egg when you…
2025 · wordlecharts.crtez.dev · its alternatives →
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NYT Crossword Answers: Daily hints and puzzle analysis.
Apr 2026 · its alternatives →
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Daily hints and answer to NYT connections
2025 · connectionshintz.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I've been experimenting on-and-off over the years trying to automatically generate crosswords [1]. Recently I've been feeling like my results are good enough that I want to share them and see what other people think. I'm not trying to claim that these could appear in, say, the NYT in their current state, but honestly the velocity of progress makes me feel like I will inevitably be able to automatically generate NYT-quality crosswords within just a year or so. A write-up is here: https://abstractnonsense.com/crosswords.html And you can play the crosswords here:…
2024 · abstractnonsense.com · its alternatives →
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Analyze words, characters, readability, and writing time.
Aug 2026 · freewww.com · its alternatives →
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Free AI crossword solver with 350,000+ real clues
Mar 2026 · crosswordanswerfinder.com · its alternatives →
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Python wrapper for the New York Times Archive API. Contribute to david-r-cox/nytimesarchive development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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