A daily puzzle solved by creating chains of two-word expressions. Test your
knowledge of English phrases.
Instructions
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Get one answer. Drag a word to the shamrock. On Monday, three words are placed for you. On Tuesday, two words are placed for you. On Wednesday, one word is placed for you. Get one answer. Drag a word to the shamrock. Get one answer. Drag a word to the shamrock. Saturdays are Special. Answer from the shamrock has been used. Answer from the shamrock has been used. Answer from the shamrock has been used. Answer from the shamrock has been used.
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All 3 rows & all 3 columns must make two word expressions.
Tip: When you get 3 correct in one row, or all words correct in one row, they will turn green.
Tip: A group of 3 in yellow go together, but aren't in the right place yet.
Tip: Focus on getting one group of 3 words that make two consecutive phrases.
Tip: Where you have 3 correct (highlighted) words in a row, try to get the whole row.
Tip: You've got one row, now focus on a second one.
Tip: Don't forget, in white, connected columns, phrases must go down as well.
You are in the home stretch. Go!
You are playing in Hard mode. Good on you!
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Go All In?
The Go All In button ↑↑↑ moves all words down in the word bank up onto
the game board in the corresponding position, as long as it's empty.
Any words already in the game board will stay where they are.
There is no cost in moves.
Dictionary Check
Red X's appear between two words when they don't form a phrase found in the Wordcels dictionary.
An unrecognized phrase cannot be part of a solution. Recognized phrases may or may not be.
Toggle the button to Red to be alerted to unrecognized pairs. Toggle to Grey to
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How to Play
Chain words into consecutive, two-word phrases across a row, as the arrows indicate:
double feature
stunt doublefeature film
stunt
double
feature
film
film
In columns where cells are connected vertically, also chain words into consecutive, two-word phrases going down:
stunt
double
feature
film
take
double take
part
take part
Standard Mode
Standard mode is a little bit larger puzzle, and provides fewer clues than beginner mode.
You still chain words into two-word phrases going across.
stunt
double
feature
film
studio
take
part
And also going down in connected columns.
What changes are the clues indicating progress. Green is still right words, right place. Yellow still means these words go
together, just not where they are.
But now clues come in 3's or 5's.
Single words, or pairs, aren't colored to tell you if they are right or wrong.
stunt
film
studio
When you get 3 words in a row that are part of the solution they form a group that moves together.
A yellow group isn't in the right place yet.
stunt
feature
film
studio
A green group is in the right place.
stunt
feature
film
studio
A 4th word in a row with a green group won't be colored to indicate right or wrong.
But when 5 across are right, the whole row turns green.
stunt
double
feature
film
studio
A connected column turns dark green when all 3 words make two-word phrases going down.
stunt
double
feature
film
studio
under
take
five
star
struck
shape
part
owner
ship
moving
Lastly, red x's between a pair of words indicate they are not a recognized two-word expression - people don't say
shape part or ship moving very often.
Hard Mode
Hard mode is the same size puzzle as Standard mode, but there is no wordbank, and there are no clues.
You still chain words into two-word phrases going across.
stunt
double
feature
film
studio
take
part
And also going down in connected columns.
Hard mode has no word bank and no clues.
The word bank is gone. The words start out on the game board in a random order.
There is no grouping. Even if three words in a row are part of the solution they don't group together and move as a block.
There are no color-coding clues. Nothing turns green or yellow until you solve it all.
Scoring is still based on the number of times a word on the game board is moved.
Scoring is handicapped - For each puzzle, the minimum possible number of moves (swaps) is computed. If you solve in that many moves, you can get a perfect score of zero.
Training Tutorial
The yellow background means cake is not in the right place.
A green background means a word is in the right place. Now make a two-word phrase ending in cake.
wedding cake - Good job. Now make a two word expression starting with cake.
A yellow background means walk isn't in the right place. But cake also needs to form an expression going down.
Great. Now find the second word that forms a two-word expression with cake.
Great. cake walk down and cake stand across. Now create a two-word expression ending in walk.
Finally, complete the word chain across the second row.
And solved! Every row has two-word expressions chained together across.
Drag cake one cell to the right.
Drag wedding to the top left cell.
Drag walk to the top right cell to create cake walk.
Drag walk below cake to create cake walk vertically.
Drag stand to the right of cake.
Drag jay into the lower left cell to make jay walk.
Drag away to the bottom right cell to make walk away.
The column where cells connect above or below, also has two-word expressions going down. You are ready to play.
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Holiday Special
Holiday puzzles are 9 words on a 3x3 game board. As usual, every word going horizontally
must make a common two word expression with the word before and/or after it.
In holiday puzzles, all 3 columns must also make two word expressions going down.
In Beginner mode, each word placed will be green or yellow, so solutions come quickly.
In Standard mode, one word is placed for you.
In Hard mode, no words are placed for you, and no progress indicators are
provided - It all turns green when correct.
There are at least two solutions to a holiday puzzle. The words going across
in one solution could be the words going down in the other solution, and vice-versa.
Depending on the puzzle multiple bi-directional solutions may exist.
Saturday Special 🧚
Today's Sweet Tooth Fairy:
What is a Sweet Tooth Fairy?
It's a form of speech fitting a Wordcels-like pattern: the 1st and 2nd words form a
known expression, and the 2nd and 3rd words do as well. And all three words together
make a credible expression, often funny, or at least at the Dad-joke level.
The most famous sweet tooth fairy is from Charles Dickens: Individuals who excessively
adhere to bureaucratic rules and formalities are "red tapeworms".
Saturdays are Special
Every Saturday, Wordcels has a sweet tooth fairy embedded in the puzzle in the cells outlined
by red dashes. A description of the sweet tooth fairy is provided as a clue.
You Got It! 🧚
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Additional Valid Pairs
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but you may have spent time considering them.
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Today's puzzle
Super words pair in both directions and make Wordcels possible.
At least two are in every standard puzzle. The more super words,
the harder a puzzle may be. Today had
Super words pair in both directions and make Wordcels
possible. A holiday puzzle has at least one right at the center.
Today's had
Super words pair in both
directions and make Wordcels possible. At least one is in every beginner
puzzle. The more super word possibilities, the harder a puzzle may be.
Today had
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Left-handed and right-handed words can make a puzzle a bit easier.
Left words almost always start a phrase, but don't finish one. Right
words almost always finish but don't start.
Left Words:
Right Words:
Know a phrase that breaks this rule? Please let us know.
