On board
Blue marks a placed cube. A dark frame marks your selection.
HOW TO PLAY CLUEROLL
A little wordplay.
A clever roll.
Solve an English word clue. Then roll six-faced letter cubes to spell the answer. Here’s how to find your feet.
Try a little rollJust practice. No progress affected.
Back to your puzzle
YOUR MISSION
It’s the top face that counts.
Think of the word.
Then make it happen.
01 / THE IDEA
The word is only the beginning.
Part word puzzle.
Part spatial thinking.
- 1
Read the clue
Find the English word that fits. Think it through first—there’s no answer box to type into.
- 2
Roll the letters
Select a cube, place it at a valid entrance, then roll along the board. Every roll changes its top face.
- 3
Make the word
Line up the top letters in the answer slots. A correct letter in its correct slot turns green and locks. Complete the whole word to win.
02 / YOUR FIRST ROLL
Meet your
six-sided teammate.
One cube, six letters. This is a small rolling lesson, not a full daily puzzle. Your goal: reach the purple target with T on top.
- 1
Choose Place cube. Entering from the tray keeps the same top face and costs no rolls.
- 2
Roll right once: C becomes A. Roll right again: A becomes T.
- 3
Land on the target with T to lock it in. Try Undo or Start over to explore.
The route matters. A different path can leave a different letter facing up.
PRACTICE BOARDROLLS 0
OACRTS
All six facesThe center letter faces up.
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TGOAL
C1CArrow keys work, too
A little color goes a long way.
Look for the status as well as the color.
Correct & locked
The right letter in the right slot.
Wrong spot
The letter belongs in the word, but not here.
Not in the word
This top letter isn’t in the answer.
04 / READ BETWEEN THE LETTERS
Four ways to find your word.
Fresh practice examples.
No future daily spoilers.
FIND THE COMMON LINK
BOW · COAT · DROP
_ _ _ _Reveal the answer & why
RAIN — rainbow, raincoat, raindrop.
01 / 04
One word ties them together.
Try joining the same word to each clue. It needs to work with every one, not just the first.
A small nudgeThink about a rainy day.
ONE WORD, TWO MEANINGS
A tree’s outer layer
A dog’s sharp sound
Reveal the answer & why
BARK — the covering of a tree, and the sound a dog makes.
02 / 04
Same spelling. Different meanings.
Read each definition separately, then find one English word that satisfies both. You’re not looking for two different answers.
A small nudgePicture a dog beside a tree.
CONNECT BOTH SIDES
SUN ___ POT
_ _ _ _ _ _Reveal the answer & why
FLOWER — sunflower and flowerpot.
03 / 04
A bridge between two words.
Put your answer in the middle. It should form a word or familiar phrase with the left side and with the right side. Check both.
A small nudgeYou might find it in a garden.
MATCH THE RELATIONSHIP
DAY → NIGHT
LIGHT → ?
Reveal the answer & why
DARK — day and night are opposites, just like light and dark.
04 / 04
Find the pattern, then the word.
Work out how the first pair is related, then apply the same relationship to the second pair. Here they’re opposites; other clues can use other relationships.
A small nudgeWhat happens when you turn the light off?
A LITTLE HELP IS PART OF THE GAME
Two kinds of hints.
Room to rethink.
Knowing the word and getting it onto the board are different challenges. Pick the help you actually need.
Word hints
A nudge toward the meaning of the clue. Counted separately from cube hints.
Cube hints
Help with the cubes, entrances, or route—not another definition of the word.
Undo, reset, restart
Undo restores the previous board and route count. Reset returns the selected cube to the tray—even a locked one—and removes its route rolls. Restart clears the board and timer, but revealed hints remain available and still count. Earned fragments are not removed.
YOUR RESULT, EXPLAINED
Know your route.
See your progress.
Your result records time, the route you kept, and the hints you revealed. None of these reduce your reward.
Route rolls & BEST
Route rolls and YOUR ROLLS count legal rolls in your current route, not every attempt. Placement and blocked moves add no rolls; Undo and Reset remove the discarded route rolls. BEST is this puzzle’s verified minimum route, not your personal record. It has no time or hint penalty.
When does time count?
Daily time starts with your first cube action or revealed hint. It pauses when the page is hidden or its window loses focus, and stops on completion. Reading daily Help or hints still counts. Undo and cube Reset do not rewind time; Restart clears it until your next action.
Hints & weekly results
Daily word and cube hints count separately. Opening the hint kit or rereading a revealed hint adds nothing. Weekly time starts with your first arranging action or revealed hint; it pauses when hidden, unfocused, or reading weekly Help. Its word-hint count is 0 or 1, even if reopened. Clear loose letters keeps time and hint history. Unrecorded older statistics show —, not zero.
06 / THE WEEKLY TWIST
Little daily wins.
A bigger weekly picture.
Finish a daily puzzle to collect its four assigned letter fragments. Use them with the weekly clue to build a phrase. When all 28 letters are correct, the puzzle completes automatically and opens your collection card—no extra submission.
- Rewards are preassigned—not taken from your answer, cube faces, or route.
- Start using your fragments right away. You don’t have to wait for all seven days.
- Each word has its own row. Green weekly letters stay locked; loose letters can be returned.
- Replaying a day doesn’t give extra fragments. Hints or extra rolls don’t reduce its reward.
THE WEEKLY PHRASE
An illustration, not your progress or this week’s answer.
GOOD TO KNOW
Before you roll.
Does placing a cube at an entrance rotate it?
No. Placement preserves its starting orientation and adds no rolls. A legal directional move then rotates it 90 degrees and adds one roll.
Can I roll through another cube or off the board?
No. You can move only into a valid, unoccupied board cell. A blocked move doesn’t count as a roll.
How do yellow and red work in the weekly puzzle?
Weekly feedback checks the current word: yellow means the letter belongs in that word but in another slot; red means it doesn’t belong in that word. It doesn’t check the whole phrase at once.
Do practice or partly solved puzzles earn fragments?
No. A formal daily puzzle must be fully solved to earn its reward. This lesson is separate: it doesn’t change daily progress, streaks, or weekly fragments.
Is my progress automatically saved across devices?
This lesson resets when you reload. Formal daily and weekly progress and earned fragments save automatically in this browser when storage is available. There is no account backup or cross-device cloud sync. Clearing site data removes local progress. If a saving warning appears, keep the page open and do not reload or close it. In a weekly puzzle, use Retry saving after browser storage becomes available again—even after completing the phrase. If it still fails, keep the page open; the warning means the save has not succeeded. Daily puzzles have no manual save button; follow the daily saving warning.
OVER TO YOUGot a word in mind?
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