Long Story Short
Pick five words from a long news sentence to form a headline that keeps its meaning, with colored feedback on each word and five tries.
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Pick five words from a long news sentence to form a headline that keeps its meaning, with colored feedback on each word and five tries.
Complete a crossword that has no clues at all, working out which words fit across and down by logic, in mini, main and mega sizes.
Arrange two-letter chunks into the three slots of a hidden six-letter word, with correct pairs locking in place after each guess.
Study rows of pre-scored Wordle-style clues and deduce the hidden answer of five letters with a single guess, racing a par time as more clues arrive.
Link three starting five-letter words into a single connected web by adding ladder steps between them, aiming for the four-word perfect score or par of seven.
Drop letters from a shared pool into each row's blank so every row forms a word, finding the one set that uses every tile, easiest Monday and hardest Saturday.
Spot which four of twelve letter fragments share a missing two-letter pair that turns each into an everyday word, then repeat for all three pairs.
Build a five-link chain of compound words, where each answer joins the previous word, like egg and shell, and then becomes the next clue.
Crack a single cryptic crossword clue each day, opening step-by-step hints that explain the wordplay, set this month inside a Sherlock Holmes mystery.
Find the single word that links two given words, with a daily puzzle alongside a timed Rush mode and an Endless run.
Lay four of five word cards around a board and rotate them so every clue sits between two words it connects, across four puzzles from easy to hard.
Spell five words read aloud, each harder than the last, with two minutes per word and spoken hints on meaning, origin and usage; a single misspelling ends your run.
Five tries to crack a secret word, aided by as many as four cryptic crossword clues revealed in turn, with difficulty stepping up from early in the week to the weekend.
Four small word puzzles a day: shrink a word letter by letter, split a portmanteau into its sources, link scattered fragments and slide columns until five words align.
Unscramble eighteen words one after another, each with its own fresh 30-second countdown; a miss just reveals the answer, and the score counts how many you solved.
Reveal a well-known saying stuffed with numbers by guessing its letters one at a time, letting the numbers point you toward the phrase.
Build your own crossword on an empty 9x9 board from a 14-letter rack shared by all players, where every across and down run has to spell a word and crossings count twice.
Eight five-letter words, four across and four down, are printed on top of each other; solve each clue to lift its layer of ink until the print is clean.
Answer five simple clues while keeping the number of distinct letters as low as you can, since repeats cost nothing, and try to match or beat the editor's count.
Swap pairs of tiles on a four-by-four grid until every row and every column spells a real word.
Start with a hidden four-letter word and move up a rung after every solve, each word one letter longer up to ten, using colored feedback; one failed rung ends the climb.
Spot the anagrams concealed in the puzzle and loop a lasso around each one, rearranging letters in your head to find the hidden words.
Chain three or more letters into words to clear the tower beneath its stones, which no word can remove directly, until every stone has come down.
Rearrange the letters of five words, growing in length from four to eight, where any real word using every tile is accepted, with no timer and hints on hand.
Work out five five-letter words stacked in a grid from six clues, with one column marked in red that holds a further hidden answer.
Solve one cryptic crossword-style clue that hides a murder weapon, poison or cause of death, with three optional hints that lower your rank the more you use.
Swap tiles among sixteen letters until four words read correctly, using green and amber hints for right spots and misplaced letters, with fourteen swaps for the board.
Each move shifts every letter on the board until it hits a wall or another tile; arrange them into words across or down to fill the target slots within 15 minutes.
Ten words stacked in a column, each pairing with the word above it to make a familiar two-word phrase; type each one in, with hints that show a letter when stuck.
Make words at least four letters long from the letters on four phone keypad digits, reusing any letter freely, with longer words scoring more before time runs out.
Each of five hint words hides one letter of the secret word; take a letter from each, in order, to spell it, against a clock where every wrong guess adds ten seconds.