Classic
Keyboard: Tab to the grid. Arrow keys move. Space or Enter starts a line, arrows extend it, Space or Enter commits the word. Escape cancels.
Paused
The remaining words light up on the grid. Words you did not find score nothing, and the game counts as assisted.
A fresh themed grid. Drag across letters, or use the keyboard on the grid (arrows, Space or Enter), to find each word in any direction the tier allows.
Copy Result places a one-line summary of your solve on the clipboard, ready to paste anywhere. The buttons above open a ready-made post.
A session analysis from your play, mapped to the six Real World IQ brain regions. Scroll to read it all - your Lifetime Cognitive Record grows with every solve.
Region values are session estimates from this puzzle's play pattern. Membership will extend this report with lifetime region trends, world percentiles, and printable certificates.
Each puzzle hides a themed list of words in a grid of letters. Drag from the first letter to the last to select a word - on a touchscreen, press and slide; with a mouse, click and drag. Let go and a correct word locks in with its own color and strikes off the list.
Words run in straight lines. Easy hides them across and down only. Standard adds diagonals. Expert hides them in all eight directions - including backward.
Hints (5 per game) reveal a word you have not found yet - it lights up on the grid and strikes off the list, but a revealed word scores nothing. Find them all to finish.
Every word you find is worth ten points per letter, times your tier - Easy x1, Standard x2, Expert x3. Long words pay more. A word you reveal with a hint or the Reveal All button scores nothing.
Today's Puzzle is the same themed grid for every player in the world, refreshed at midnight. Solve it each day to build your streak.
Finish and you receive a Real World IQ score: your score performance (0-100) multiplied by 2.0, plus a speed bonus of up to 20 for beating par. The maximum is 220.
Scan for Q, Z, X, J and K first - they appear in few words, so they pin down where those answers hide.
Take a word from the list and sweep the grid for its opening letter, then check the eight directions out of each one.
On Standard and Expert, the eye skips diagonals. Deliberately trace corner-to-corner lines - that is where the tricky words sit.
In Expert a word can read right-to-left or bottom-to-top. If a word will not appear forward, look for it spelled in reverse.
The final two or three words are always the hardest. Bank your hints for them rather than spending early.