Sure, the Mini Crossword only takes 1 or 2 minutes to solve, but the game matters to lots of people, including me.

Did you wake up this morning, coffee in hand, only to find a paywall blocking your daily New York Times mini crossword, instead of finding the answers to today's crossword? If you’re staring at your screen wondering if it’s a glitch — or just feeling like your morning routine has been completely 'obliterated' — as some Reddit users expressed,

The NYT Mini is a quick and dirty version of the newspaper's larger and long-running crossword. Most days, there are between three and five clues in each direction on a five by five grid, but the puzzles are sometimes larger, especially on Saturdays.