CrissWord: Full Circle

About CrissWord: Full Circle

Full Circle is the daily word-path game from CrissWord, by Chris Ward. Each puzzle is a chain of words, and every word comes with its own clue. You start at the top of the path and work down, entering one word at a time, until you return to where you began: the first and last words always share the same clue, so the path closes into a full circle.

What links each word to the next is one of four actions, shown between the rows: change one letter (swap a single letter), find an anagram (the same letters rearranged), add one letter (insert a letter anywhere) or remove one letter (drop a letter). The connector between two words turns green when the pair is a valid move and red when it is not, which is a check on the transformation itself and separate from whether your answer matches the intended word.

There is one correct answer for each step, and wrong guesses cost you points, so it rewards reading the clue before typing. A hard mode makes it tougher by hiding the lengths of the answers. The daily puzzle is numbered and the same for everyone, and it takes only a few minutes.

It suits people who like word ladders, anagrams and clue-based word games, and anyone who already plays the other CrissWord puzzles.

How to play CrissWord: Full Circle

1. Read the clue for the first word in the path and type your answer.
2. Move to the next word: the action between them (change, add or remove a letter, or anagram) tells you how it transforms.
3. Watch the connector colour: green means the two words are a valid move apart, red means they are not.
4. Use each word's own clue to pin down the one correct answer, and avoid wrong guesses, which cost points.
5. Finish the path back to a word that shares the first clue, closing the full circle.

Tips

• Solve the clues you are most sure of first; a known word fixes the letters its neighbours must use.
• Let the action guide you: an anagram step means the same letters, while add or remove changes the length by one.
• Because the first and last words share a clue, a strong idea for one end gives you the other.
• Think before you type: wrong guesses lose points, so confirm the action works before committing.

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