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How to play

Four games, played in order, one shared path to the day's crown. Everyone gets the same puzzles — they refresh at midnight, your local time.

1 · Word Scorch

3:00

Five trivia clues, each with a one-word answer hidden in the letter grid. Tap letters in a straight line — across, down, or diagonally (always forward, never backwards) — to trace each answer.

Stuck? Reveal answers shows all five words at a cost of 60 seconds, and you can then trace them in any order.

2 · Real Word

0:30

Two words appear — one is spelled correctly, the other is a misspelling of a different word. Tap the real one. You get exactly one tap, so look twice.

3 · ShuffleWord

0:30

You're shown a real word. Rearrange all of its letters into a different real word. Any valid English word made from exactly those letters counts.

A hint appears after 10 seconds describing one possible answer — but any real anagram still wins.

4 · Wordamid

2:00

Start from a five-letter word and build a pyramid: each row uses the letters of the row above, minus one, and must still be a real word — all the way down to a single letter.

A hint about the next word appears when 30 seconds remain.

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