Findish Today

How to play no rules to learn

18 words are buried in the grid. Drag from the first letter to the last and let go. Get it right and the word lights up in its own colour, on the grid and in the list beside it. Words run across, down and diagonally, always forwards, so nothing is hiding backwards to waste your afternoon. Find all of them and the clock stops.

The fastest way to clear a grid

Most people read the grid like a book, line by line, and it is the slowest thing you can do. Look at the word list first and pick the rarest letter in it. Z, Q, X, J. There are maybe three of them on the whole board. Find the letter, look at its eight neighbours, and you have either found the word or eliminated it in two seconds.

Long words are the easy ones

It feels backwards, but a nine letter word has nowhere to hide. It needs almost the full width of the grid, so there are only a handful of places it can physically sit. Start with the longest word on the list, not the shortest. By the time the big ones are gone the short ones are sitting in plain sight.

And when a word will not come, stop scanning and start scanning differently. Turn your head, run a finger down the diagonals, or read the columns instead of the rows. The word has been on screen the entire time. Your eyes were just travelling in the wrong direction.

One grid, everyone, every day

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