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How to play Jumbly

Jumbly is a free daily anagram word puzzle. Everyone gets the same jumbled word each day, and your job is to put the letters back in the right order in as few tries as you can. It's a quick, friendly brain teaser for your morning coffee.

How the puzzle works

Tap the jumbled letters to place them in the answer row, or type them on a keyboard. Tap a placed letter to send it back. When every slot is full, press Submit. Each submitted word counts as one try, so think before you press. If it isn't right, Jumbly tells you how many letters were already in the right spot and locks one more letter into its correct place for you. Words are 6 letters from Monday to Thursday, 7 letters on Friday and Saturday, and 8 letters on Sunday. Every answer is a common word spelled the same in British and American English.

Scoring and the helper

You have six tries. Solving it on your first try earns 12 points, then 10, 8, 6, 4 and 2 for tries two to six. Stuck early on? The helper reveals the first letter, but it halves the day's score and is only available during your first three tries.

Streaks and badges

Your play streak counts the days in a row you've played, and your solved streak counts the days in a row you've solved the puzzle. Play seven days running and you earn a 7-point bonus, or 14 points if you solved all seven. Miss a day and the streaks start again. A new puzzle arrives every day at midnight UTC.

Tips

Look for common endings first, such as -ing, -er, -ed and -le, then work on the start.

Try pairs that often sit together, such as th, ch, sh, qu and ck.

Use Shuffle: seeing the letters in a new order often makes the word jump out.

What Jumbly trains

Letter patterns. Spotting likely beginnings and endings like '-ing', '-tion' or 'str-'.

Vocabulary. The answer is a common word, so it's about finding it in your memory.

Flexible thinking. Letting go of one arrangement to try another.

Did you know?

'Listen' and 'silent' are anagrams, and so are 'dormitory' and 'dirty room'.

Scientists once used anagrams to claim discoveries in secret: Galileo announced his observations of Saturn as a scrambled Latin phrase.

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