The Daily Spell
✨The Daily Spell ✨
Unscramble the headline by dropping letters into place and read today's top story from the premiere magical newspaper, The Daily Spell.
📝 How to play
The Daily Spell is a drop quote puzzle - letters are organized by column.
- Each letter needs to go somewhere in the same column in order to form words that are read across.
- Black squares are the spaces between words, and words can wrap from one line to the next.
- You can freely use the Drop single letters button to automatically drop all letters that are the only ones left in their column.
- If you need a hint, click the Reveal a letter button, then a spot or letter in order to reveal what goes there.
For mobile players, landscape orientation is recommended! And note that the game might not work well with dark mode browser extensions.
🧩 A new puzzle daily
Come back every day after midnight New York time to solve a new puzzle and find out what happened next. (If you have the game open at midnight, refresh the page.) You can access all past puzzles using the date navigation at the top.
To discuss the game and share how you did, you can join the Thinky Games Discord and join me in the daily puzzle channel!
⚠️ Completion info is saved to local storage and can get cleared unexpectedly. Feel free to use the Reveal all button to restore old puzzles you've previously completed.
📰 Credits
Created for ThinkyCon Jam 2025 after being inspired by ThinkyCon talks like Daniel King on newspaper puzzles and Adam Saltsman on making small games.
Celia did the design, coding, and writing.
Comments
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WOOOH!!!! GO CAT!! YOU MAY NOT HAVE WON THE BATTLE BUT YOU CLEARLY WON THIS WAR! WE BELIEVE IN YOU!
I found this game because it was in Celia's discord bio (seen on Funeral for the Sun's discord server). It's so much fun! I don't think I would have gotten invested in this story if it wasn't in "wordle-like" form, it's genius. There's something comedic I really like about this game, how a word can fall into place and suddenly reveal the petty drama that's about to unfold.
Oooo the story gets even more interesting!
I quite enjoyed this. One little tweak: I wish “Drop single letters” would drop multiple letters down if they are all the same. There’s no choice so it might as well.
I had this situation come up a few times as I played through.
Great idea - I’ve added a check for multiple of the same letter. Thanks!
kick her ass in the pokemon battle Cat!!! I believe in you!!
I am invested in the world you are revealing here. Who’s in the right, who’s in the wrong (is anyone either)? I’ve swung back and forth between rooting for both sides.
I feel like I should stand with Argent, because he was just stating truths, although stretched and exaggerated in order to humiliate her, that she was a fraud, but after today’s news, Smythe just wanted others’ work to be recognized and, as a result, proved most of her works didn’t come from just herself, exposing herself as a fraud. Argent showed others Smythe’s secret, and Smythe doubled down in order to stand against the normalcy of their world in a guiding kind of way. I don’t know who to root for now,,
Another delightful puzzle game from Jamwitch, so much fun!
Okay, this is getting REALLY good. I love the new drama. I'm kinda rooting for Thalia.
I think I’m starting to side with Scribe Argent here..
I dunno. Maybe someone paid him off? there's more here than we're seeing, i'm sure of it.
This game is so awesome!!! I am so excited to read more scribe drama!!
Ooh! Logical English deduction! Fun even before I finished my first one!
Love the puzzles and the stories!
I love this! Excited to see the continuation of the story!
Nice little daily challenge with an intriguing story behind it to keep us hooked. Genius design!
I’m all caught up and excited to see the next headline!
I have not solved this kind of puzzle before, so it took me quite a while to figure out how it worked (kept trying to drop letters wherever and did not realise they just dropped down), but when I figured it out I solved it without too much trouble.
I recommend adding in the description that words can wrap around, as that can be a bit confusing when you're solving for the first time.
Looking forward to next day's puzzle :)