Café Fléchés

Arrow-word puzzles, newsstand style

French mots fléchés to solve the way you would at the counter of a café: one grid, one coffee, ten minutes to yourself. The clues sit inside the squares, the arrows give the direction, the words cross — exactly like in the newspaper.

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The app

A front page like a newspaper's, a crisp grid, and a win worth savouring.

Café Fléchés home screen: daily challenge and grid size picker The daily challenge is waiting
An arrow-word grid being filled in, with the clue banner and the keyboard Clues in the squares, arrows and a French keyboard
Completion screen showing the time and statistics for the finished grid Grid finished, streak kept alive

Three sizes, for the time you have

The size sets how big the grid is, and therefore how long the session lasts. It is chosen independently from the difficulty.

8 × 8

Mini

About twenty words, the length of an espresso. 5 to 10 minutes.

10 × 10

Classique

The traditional newspaper size, around 35 words. 10 to 20 minutes.

13 × 13

Grande

The big weekend grid, around 60 words. 20 to 40 minutes.

Three clue difficulties

Grid size and clue difficulty are set separately, the way a puzzle magazine does it.

Level 1

Direct clues

The thing is named plainly. To get started, or for a quiet grid at the counter.

Level 2

Richer vocabulary

Rarer words and tighter phrasing, with no gratuitous traps.

Level 3

Allusive clues

Wordplay, double meanings, the clue you have to earn.

What is already in the app

604 Puzzles included
3 × 3 Sizes × levels
1 / day Daily challenge
0 Accounts to create

The daily challenge, and your streak

Every morning a Classique grid is waiting on the home screen, like the newspaper puzzle. Finish it within the day to keep your streak alive.

The app keeps your notebook: grids completed, current streak, best streak, average time per size. Everything is counted on your device, and published nowhere.

Home screen with the daily challenge and the streak counter

Typing that never gets in your way

  • The cursor skips squares that are already filled
  • A completed word moves you straight on to the next one
  • Tapping the current square switches between across and down
  • Built-in French keyboard with large keys
  • Every session resumes exactly where you left it

Both automatic behaviours can be turned off in the settings if you would rather move square by square.

A grid in progress with the clue banner and the in-app keyboard

Genuinely readable

The game is designed to be read without effort, including by tired eyes.

  • Clue text size adjustable up to ×1.6, on top of your system text size
  • High contrast mode: thicker borders, bolder colours
  • Large clue banner above the keyboard
  • Pinch to zoom, double tap to see the whole grid again
  • Light, dark or automatic theme
  • VoiceOver on iPhone and iPad, TalkBack on Android: every square is announced
End-of-grid screen

Quiet by default

No account, no sign-up. Your grids, your progress and your settings stay on your device, and everything works offline: on a train, on a plane, deep in the countryside.

No advertising ever interrupts a session. One hint is free per grid; if you want another one, the game offers to let you watch a short video — the decision is yours, and the advertising consent form is shown only at that moment. If the video is unavailable, the hint is granted anyway.

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Premium — once, €2.99

No subscription, no renewal. A single purchase, handled by the App Store or Google Play, restorable on your other devices signed in to the same account.

€2.99 — one-off purchase

Pour yourself a coffee, open a grid

Coming soon to iPhone, iPad and Android. Rated 4+ / PEGI 3.