Daily puzzle rules

Guess the hidden five-letter word in six tries.

• ▪Guess the hidden five-letter word in six tries.
• ▪Type any real word and press Enter.
• ▪Green tile — right letter, right spot.
• ▪Yellow tile — in the word, wrong spot.
• ▪Grey letter — not in the word at all.
• ▪Everyone gets the same word; a new one at midnight UTC.

Change one letter at a time. Stay a word.

• ▪Turn the start word into the target word, one letter at a time.
• ▪Every rung must be a real word — type it and press Enter.
• ▪Wrong tries cost nothing. Guess freely; the clock is the only score.
• ▪A locked rung can still be a wrong road — backspace straight back into it.
• ▪Exactly one shortest chain exists, and you are on its trail.
• ▪Everyone climbs the same ladder; a new one at midnight UTC.

Balance suns and moons — never three in a row.

• ▪Fill the 6×6 board with suns and moons.
• ▪Each row and column gets exactly three of each.
• ▪Never three of the same symbol side by side.
• ▪= between two cells means they match; × means they differ.
• ▪Tap a cell to cycle: blank → sun → moon.

Fill every row, column, and box with 1–6.

• ▪Fill the 6×6 grid with the numbers 1–6.
• ▪Every row must have 1–6 exactly once.
• ▪Every column must have 1–6 exactly once.
• ▪Every 2×3 box must have 1–6 exactly once.
• ▪Tap a cell, then tap a number to fill it.
• ▪Clashes turn red so you can spot them early.

Fill 1–5 so every cage makes its number.

• ▪Fill the 5×5 grid with the numbers 1–5, once in every row and column.
• ▪Each outlined cage must make its number using the sign on its line.
• ▪A sign sits on the line between two cells of the same cage.
• ▪A number may repeat inside a cage, but never in a row or column.
• ▪A few cells are filled for you — the rest is deduction, never guessing.
• ▪Tap a cell, then tap a number. Notes pencil in what a cell could be.
• ▪One board a day, the same for everyone; a new one at midnight UTC.