Cogs (The Telegraph)

About Cogs (The Telegraph)

Cogs arrived in the Telegraph Puzzles app in November 2025 and was announced as The Telegraph's brand new puzzle a few weeks later. The board is a grid of blocks, each holding four letters, and each block turns like a cog. Rotating a block moves its letters around, and only the white squares count: the puzzle is solved when every across and down run of white squares spells a word or phrase.

You can lock a block once you are sure of it, so it stops turning, check a block, a word or the whole grid, and reveal the answer if you are stuck. The game rewards working out a strategy and finishing quickly.

The full Cogs is part of the Telegraph Puzzles subscription, in the app and on the web. Since July 2026 a free Mini Cogs has been offered daily to all users, and it has its own site at cogs.gg. It suits anyone who likes letter puzzles with a physical feel, such as Typeshift or Waffle.

How to play Cogs (The Telegraph)

1. Open Cogs in Telegraph Puzzles, or Mini Cogs at cogs.gg.
2. Tap a block to rotate its four letters.
3. Turn the blocks until every row and column of white squares spells a word.
4. Lock blocks you are sure of, and use Check or Reveal if you need help.

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Tips

• Start with the corners: a corner block's letters belong to two words at once.
• Lock a block as soon as you are sure; it saves accidental turns.
• Short words are easier to spot; let them fix the blocks around the long ones.

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