Jumble (Greatest Games)
Rate itSwap scrambled tiles until three words across and three down read right.
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Jumble on Greatest Games is a daily letter-swapping grid. The letters of six words, three across and three down, are scrambled, and you swap pairs of tiles to put them back, with fifteen swaps to do it. Tiles turn green when right, yellow when they belong in the word elsewhere, and white when not needed there.
About Jumble (Greatest Games)
This Jumble is a grid puzzle rather than the newspaper's single scrambled words. The board holds three across words and three down words with their letters mixed up. You tap one tile and then another to swap them, aiming to make all six words read correctly at once.
Colours guide you after every swap. Green means a letter is in its right place, yellow means it belongs in that word but somewhere else, and white means it is not needed in that word. A yellow corner tile is a special case: corners sit in both an across and a down word, and yellow means either of them uses that letter. You have fifteen swaps, and the fewer you use, the better.
Jumble is one of the daily games on Greatest Games, a site of word and logic puzzles. A new puzzle goes up every day at midnight US Eastern, the same for everyone, and it plays free in the browser with no account or download. A free account plays the last seven days from the archive, and the paid Greatest Games Plus opens every past puzzle and removes the site's ads.
The format follows Waffle: twenty-one tiles on a 5x5 board with four gaps, nine of them at crossings that serve two words. Greatest Games' page names that debt openly and adds a long guide to solving, with tips on mutual swaps and three-tile cycles. It suits players who already enjoy Waffle and want a second board of the same kind each morning.
How to play Jumble (Greatest Games)
- Open Jumble on greatest.games and look at the scrambled grid.
- Tap one tile, then another, to swap them.
- Read the colours: green is right, yellow belongs elsewhere in the word, white is not needed there.
- Work toward all six words reading correctly.
- Finish within fifteen swaps, using as few as you can.
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Tips
- Solve the words with the most green tiles first.
- Remember corner tiles serve two words; a yellow corner may belong to either.
- Plan swaps that fix two tiles at once.
- Work out each word before swapping rather than experimenting.
- Look for mutual swaps first: two tiles that each belong where the other sits turn green with one trade.
Questions
What counts as solved?
All six words, three across and three down, reading correctly at once.
How many swaps do I get?
Fifteen. Any you do not use show as swaps remaining.
When does Jumble reset?
Every day at midnight US Eastern Time, with the same puzzle for everyone.
Is Jumble free?
Yes. Today's puzzle plays free in the browser with no account, with ads on the page. A free account plays the last seven days from the archive; Greatest Games Plus opens the whole archive and removes the ads.
Can every board be solved?
Yes. The page says every daily board can be untangled in exactly ten swaps, against a budget of fifteen.
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