Garble (Mind Loft)

Garble follows the classic newspaper jumble with one more word than usual. Five rows of scrambled letters each hide a real word, and you type the answer into the boxes beside them using exactly the letters given. Some boxes in each answer are outlined; those letters are collected for the finale.

The finale is a sixth answer whose clue is printed from the start, often a pun such as a rock you are pleased to hit. You can solve it whenever you see it, and doing so ends the puzzle immediately, so going for the finale early is a real strategy. Wrong arrangements count as misses, and fewest misses breaks ties on the daily leaderboard.

A new Garble arrives every day at midnight Eastern, and on Sundays every answer is six letters long. Crux, Mind Loft's clueless crossword, is the next step for players who prefer grids to scrambles.