identiFIVE Wheels
Rate itTurn columns of letter wheels until a row spells a word of three, four, then five letters.
Every day: One new set of letter wheels a day, the same for every player, in three stages: line up a three-letter word, then a four-letter word, then a five-letter word. New puzzle: Midnight on your device's local date.
identiFIVE Wheels is a free daily word puzzle played on columns of spinning letter wheels. Each day you line up a three-letter word in any row, then a four-letter word, then a five-letter word. It needs no sign-up, shows no ads, and keeps past puzzles to play.
About identiFIVE Wheels
identiFIVE Wheels is a browser word puzzle by Jonathan Ellinsfield, part of the identiFIVE collection of small word, logic and action games. The puzzle is a set of vertical letter wheels standing side by side, each one a column of coloured letters that you can turn up or down.
A day's puzzle comes in three stages. It starts with three wheels, and your job is to turn them until any row reads as a three-letter word. Then the puzzle grows to four letters and finally to five. The game says the words are simple and unrelated to each other, so there is no theme to guess; the challenge is spotting which letters on each wheel can sit next to each other.
Everyone gets the same wheels on the same date, and a new set arrives each day. Three hints are on hand if you get stuck, a Past Puzzles menu holds earlier days, and when you finish you can share your result. Progress can also be saved to a file and loaded on another device.
The site asks for no account and carries no ads or upsells. It is made for phones held upright as well as for desktop browsers, and it suits anyone who likes short word puzzles that take a few minutes and reward a good eye for letter patterns.
How to play identiFIVE Wheels
- Open identifive.com/wheels and press Play Today's Puzzle.
- Drag a wheel up or down, or press the arrow above or below it, to turn its column of letters.
- Turn the three wheels until any one row spells a three-letter word.
- Do the same for the four-letter stage and then the five-letter stage as the wheels are added.
- Use one of the three hints if you are stuck, then share your result when all three words are found.
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Tips
- Look for a vowel on the middle wheel first; most short words hang on one.
- The word can sit in any row, so scan every row after each turn rather than only the middle one.
- Common endings such as -ED, -ER or -S on the last wheels narrow the four and five-letter stages quickly.
Questions
Is identiFIVE Wheels free?
Yes. It plays in the browser with no sign-up, no ads and no upsells.
When does a new puzzle come out?
A new set of wheels arrives each day, going by your device's date, so it changes at your local midnight.
Can I play earlier puzzles?
Yes. The Past Puzzles menu opens previous days.
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