The bowl holds the letters of several hidden words — all on the theme in the clue — tipped in and thoroughly muddled: rotated, flipped, upside down.
Drag letters (or tap a letter, then tap a box) into the empty grids below. Each grid is one word; only its length is given. Fill a grid and it checks itself — right words lock in gold, wrong guesses tumble back into the bowl. Repeated letters are interchangeable: any E will do.
Tap a placed letter to tip it back into the bowl.
Daily serves one puzzle a day — the same one for everyone, everywhere — and rolls over at midnight Greenwich time. Your time is your score; copy it and challenge a friend. Free play lets you pick a theme and play as many as you like, with an optional clock.
Normal checks each word as you complete it, and up to five hints (+20s each) will reveal the next letter of the top unsolved word. Hard tells you nothing until every tile is placed — the whole puzzle either resolves at once or shakes as one. Check (+20s) shows which of your completed rows are right. Normal and Hard have separate leaderboards.
Your streak survives one missed day a week — an automatic freeze, shown as ❄. Yesterday's answers appear under the clue once the puzzle rolls over, and the Archive lets you practise any past daily, untimed.
Playing is name-only. An optional account is just a username and password — no email, nothing to market to — and keeps your leagues and streaks on every device.