Anon (Mind Loft)

Anon is Mind Loft's take on the acrostic. On one side is a passage from a published work, around a hundred letters or more (123 on 21 October 2026), with only its word breaks and punctuation showing; on the other is a bank of answers made of the same letters, shuffled. The bank has two parts: a spine of answers whose first letters matter, and a free bank whose answers have no initial to obey. Every box in the passage belongs to exactly one answer, so a letter typed in either half appears in the other straight away.

There are no clues in the usual sense. Some answers carry a short category you can work through in your head, such as a Greek letter or a planet of a given length; about half carry no category at all and have to come from the passage reading as English. Mind Loft's own advice is to start with the sharpest category rather than the passage, because a few placed letters make the sentence start to show.

There are no checks and no hints: a wrong answer simply stops the passage from making sense. When the bank is complete, the first letters of the spine answers, read down, name whoever wrote the passage, which is where the game gets its name. Two players who both finish are separated by the clock.

On a desktop the passage and the bank sit side by side with the leaderboard beside them, hidden until you choose to show it. On a phone the board stacks, an on-screen keyboard sits at the foot, and a Passage and Bank switch moves you between the two halves. A Give up button ends the day's board if you are stuck.