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Any three of a day’s puzzles keep that day and ink its letter; seven kept days fill the card. A solve stamps its day, on the day or later from past puzzles. To fill a missed day, tap its square and play it. Sunday’s column is bigger: the weekly hard Typeslide and the five-letter ladder. Stamps live in this browser only.
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Warm-up: two moves to learn the game.
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Hint used today: this solve can earn 2 stars at most.
Typeslide: slide rows and columns until every row reads a word. A new grid every midnight UTC, the same for everyone.
More puzzles: 177 Typeslide levels in twelve worlds, with stars and hints. Or make a puzzle for a friend from your own words.
: Typeslide then opens like an app, and the daily and all levels keep working offline.
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Past puzzles
Missed a day? Every earlier daily, newest first; tap one to play it here. Your result shows once you have played it in this browser. Past puzzles keep their stars but never change today’s streak.
The first past puzzle appears tomorrow. Today’s #1 is the first Typeslide daily; from tomorrow it is listed here.
Par is the fewest moves to rows of common or everyday words, worked out by a solver when the puzzle was made. Any word in the site’s four-letter list counts as solved, so a rare-word shortcut can beat par. Undo is free. Your stats and past-puzzle results stay in this browser.
We count visits and plays anonymously. No cookies, no personal data.
What we count
Each visit adds one to a count for the page’s address, nothing more. The game adds ten tallies, each a fixed name with no puzzle number, no cookie and nothing about you or your moves. One tally goes up by one when:
daily-startyou make your first move on today’s puzzle (once a day per browser)daily-solveyou solve today’s puzzledaily-returnyou solve it in a browser that solved an earlier day’s puzzlearchive-solveyou solve a past puzzledaily-shareyou share your resultarrive-sharedyou open the link on someone’s shared result (it ends in ?s, which is then removed from the address bar)warmup-doneyou finish the first-visit warm-up (the warm-up never counts as a solve, star, streak or stat)set-doneyou finish the last of today’s puzzles: Typeslide, word ladder, nonogram, from 23 October 2026 the Quoin box puzzle and from 24 October 2026 the Ligature bridges puzzle and the Lampblack lamps puzzle (once a day per browser)reminder-addyou tap Remind me every day and the calendar file is made (the time you picked is not sent)week-doneyour week card is full: every day of the week kept, a day being kept once any three of its puzzles are solved (all of them on a day with fewer than three) (once per week per browser; which week is not sent)
… loading the word list Common words first, A to Z inside each group. Tap a word to see its letter pattern.
Best next guesses
Loading the best first guesses…
Each guess is played against every common word still in the list (SCOWL size 35 or smaller, the probable answers; every remaining word if none is common), and those words are grouped by the green, yellow and grey pattern the guess would show. Words left is the average size of the group the answer would land in, worst is the largest group, and lower is better for both.
How it reads your colours
Every guess gives three kinds of evidence, and the finder keeps all of it on one board:
- Green fixes a letter in its spot.
- Yellow says the letter is in the word but not in that spot. A letter can be yellow in several spots across guesses, so each yellow box takes more than one letter.
- Grey says the answer has no more copies of that letter than your guesses already coloured.
Worked example. Guess CRANE against the answer TREAT: C grey, R green, A yellow, N grey, E yellow. Enter R as the second green, A in the third yellow box, E in the fifth, and C N as grey. The five-letter list drops from 8,614 words to 25, and the 12 common ones (BREAD, DREAM, GREAT, TREAT among them) come first, all 25 with R second, an A that is not third, an E that is not last, and no C or N.
Repeated letters
The games colour a repeated letter one copy at a time, so a letter can be yellow or green and grey. The finder reads that the way the games mean it: exactly as many copies as are coloured, no more. Yellow E plus grey E means one E, not in the yellow spot. Green E plus grey E means one E, the green one.
A yellow E from one guess and a green E from a later guess are almost always the same E, so they count as one copy. The one case the board cannot see on its own: a single guess that coloured the same letter twice (guess EERIE against THEME gives a yellow E first and a green E last). That proves two copies, so type E into Coloured twice in one guess.
What this cannot do
- No daily answers. It does not know today’s puzzle and never will; it only shows every word your letters still allow.
- The list is ENABLE, not a game’s answer list. ENABLE is a public-domain Scrabble-style list of 172,823 words. It has no proper nouns and plenty of obscure words (AALII, XYSTI), so the count here is usually larger than the handful a game would accept as an answer.
- “Common first” is a dictionary grade, not a prediction. Each word gets one of four tiers from SCOWL (Kevin Atkinson’s Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists), which splits English into dictionary sizes from 10 (the most basic words) to 95 (everything its author could find): common is in size 35 or smaller, everyday first appears at 40-50, less common at 55-70, and rare at 80-95 or not at all. Of the 8,614 five-letter words, 3,480 are common, 951 everyday, 1,817 less common and 2,366 rare; CRANE and HOUSE are common, AALII is less common, XYSTI rare. Size 35 includes plurals and verb forms of its words, so ACHED and ABETS count as common too. SCOWL grades how widely a word appears in English dictionaries; it is not a game’s answer list and knows nothing about today’s answer. It only reorders: every word that fits is still listed, and A to Z restores plain alphabetical order.
- Slurs are removed. 89 words that are racial, ethnic, homophobic, transphobic or ableist slurs (and their plural or -ed forms) are dropped before the list reaches your browser, so they are never shown, even when they would fit. A few innocent homographs go with them; profanity that is not a slur is kept.
- English letters A to Z only, words of 4 to 8 letters.
Where the words come from
The list is enable1.txt from the dolph/dictionary repository on GitHub, pinned to one commit and checked by hash, then split by length: 3,887 four-letter, 8,614 five-letter, 15,211 six-letter, 23,089 seven-letter and 28,410 eight-letter words. Everything runs in your browser; what you type is not sent anywhere.
source=dolph/dictionary/enable1.txt (ENABLE, public domain) commit=c65f04b0b5b27a981f437b940cf62fe71320d5ec fetched=2026-09-29 rows=172823 sha256=3f16130220645692ed49c7134e24a18504c2ca55b3c012f7290e3e77c63b1a89 kept=4:3887,5:8614,6:15211,7:23089,8:28410 filtered=89
The commonness tiers come from SCOWL 2020.12.07 (its english-, american- and british-words lists, so COLOR and COLOUR grade alike), fetched once at build time and checked by hash. A word takes the smallest SCOWL size that contains it; possessives and capitalised names are skipped, and no word is added from SCOWL. Its permissive notice is kept verbatim in LICENSE-SCOWL.txt.
scowl source=downloads.sourceforge.net/project/wordlist/SCOWL/2020.12.07/scowl-2020.12.07.tar.gz (SCOWL 2020.12.07, Kevin Atkinson, permissive notice in LICENSE-SCOWL.txt) fetched=2026-09-30 rows=514136 words=435736 sha256=5587667caa20c4891390c2d42dbb4d5c4c3f41bee77af1457ece3ba23fb859cc lists=english+american+british-words.10-95 tiers=common:39743,everyday:21933,less-common:41055,rare:65617