About Letterly
Letterly is Streakly's collection of daily word puzzles: unscramble an anagram, climb a word ladder, find the link between words, decode a proverb, fill a mini crossword and more. There's one puzzle a day in each game, the same for everyone.
Every game gives you six attempts, and invalid words never cost you a try. Solve it sooner for more points, use the helper if you need a nudge (it halves your score), and keep your streak going. See how scoring works →
What Letterly exercises
- VocabularyUnscrambling, linking and decoding words keeps your vocabulary active and often turns up words you'd half forgotten.
- Spelling and letter patternsWord ladders and anagrams train your eye for how letters fit together, which common endings to try and which combinations never happen.
- Flexible thinkingMany Letterly puzzles reward stepping back and trying a different angle when the obvious answer doesn't fit.
Why it's fun
Word puzzles have that satisfying "aha" when a jumble suddenly reads as a word or a cipher unlocks a whole proverb. They're quick, quiet and perfect with a morning coffee.
Did you know?
- Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland, invented word ladders in 1879. He called them Doublets.
- The first crossword puzzle was published by Arthur Wynne in the New York World on 21 December 1913.
- E is the most common letter in written English, which is why codebreakers look for it first in a substitution cipher.