OMG Word Rainbow
OMG Word Rainbow
Our free daily · new every day Findish A word search with a new theme every day Play OMG Word Rainbow lays its letters out as a mosaic of coloured tiles and asks you to draw through them. A word only counts if each letter touches the next one, so the answer has to exist as a path across the board, not just as a word in your head.
That is the whole difference between this and a scrambled letter game. Knowing a long word is useless if its letters are scattered to opposite corners.
The result is a puzzle where reading the layout matters as much as vocabulary, and where the best players are usually the ones tracing shapes rather than reciting words.
How to play OMG Word Rainbow
Every level gives you a grid of letter tiles and a set of words to find.
- Press on the first letter and drag to a letter next to it, and keep going.
- Letters must be adjacent, including diagonally on most layouts.
- Release when the word is complete, and correct answers lock in.
- Found words clear from the board and the tiles rearrange.
- Finish the list to complete the level.
The colours are a map
The tiles are not coloured at random. Blocks of one colour usually belong together, and the palette changes as you clear the board.
Treat colour as a hint about which region of the grid to search rather than as decoration, and the longer answers become far easier to spot.
Difficulty over time
Early levels use short words on small grids where nearly every path is legal. Later ones widen the grid and add answers long enough that a single letter out of position kills the whole path.
The skill that carries you through the later levels is peripheral vision, not a bigger dictionary.
Tips and strategy
Trace with your eyes before your finger
Pick a promising starting letter and follow its neighbours visually, one step at a time. A word that cannot be traced does not exist here no matter how good it sounds.
Most failed attempts in this game are perfectly good English words that simply do not have a legal path.
Common endings are visible from a distance
Clusters like ing, ed, er and ion sit together on the board more often than chance would suggest, because the level was built from words that contain them.
Spot the cluster first, then work backwards to find a letter that can lead into it. Building a word from its ending is faster than building it from its start on a grid this dense.
Long answers first
Every word you take rearranges the tiles. That helps when you are hunting short answers and hurts badly when you are hunting long ones, because a long path is fragile and a single shifted tile breaks it.
Take the long ones while the board is still the board you have been reading.
Corners are where words go to die
A letter in a corner has three neighbours instead of eight. Any answer that has to pass through one is heavily constrained, and those are the paths people miss.
When you are stuck, check the corners deliberately. The letter you have been unable to place is often sitting in one.
Small words are not a waste
Clearing two or three short answers reshuffles the grid and can open a path that did not exist a moment ago.
This is the practical way out of a stuck level. Rather than staring longer at the same arrangement, change the arrangement.
Playing in short sessions
The game is built for interruption. Levels are short, progress saves, and there is nothing that punishes you for stopping in the middle of a run.
That makes it a good fit for a few minutes at a time, and it plays comfortably on a phone because everything is done with one finger.
Plurals, tenses and the easy extra answers
A word list built for a game like this almost always contains the simple variants of words already in it. If cat is an answer, cats often is. If plant works, planted and planting are worth trying.
That gives you a mechanical way to make progress when inspiration runs out. Take an answer you have already found, look for an s, a d or the letters of ing sitting near the end of its path, and see whether the longer version can be traced.
It also explains a frustration people run into. Two answers that look almost identical are both on the list, and finding one does not remove the other, so a board that seems to have nothing left may be waiting for a variant of something you found ten seconds ago.
The reverse works too. A long answer you cannot trace often contains a shorter one that you can, and taking the short version rearranges the board in a way that may open the long one.
Other letter hunts here
Word Search hides answers in straight lines rather than paths, OMG Word Swipe is the sibling title with a different board, and Word Hunt adds a clue and a clock. More in word.
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Frequently asked questions
How do words work in OMG Word Rainbow?
Each letter must touch the next one on the board, so an answer has to exist as a connected path rather than just as a valid word.
Do diagonal moves count?
On most layouts yes, which means an interior tile has eight neighbours and a corner tile only three.
What happens to the board after a correct word?
The tiles clear and the rest rearrange, which is why long answers should be taken while the layout you have been reading is still intact.
How do I get unstuck?
Take any short word you can find. Clearing it reshuffles the grid and often opens a path that was not available before.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes. Everything is done by dragging one finger across the tiles, and progress is kept between sessions.
Is it free to play?
Yes, free in the browser with no download and no account.