Jumblie

Jumblie is a small daily word game by Cassidy Williams, a software engineer in Chicago, launched on 4 October 2023. In its first year it drew 800 to 1,200 players a day, and it is still played daily, though its maker has stopped writing new puzzles: since October 2024 it loops through the 365 puzzles of that first year.

Each day you get a theme and a pool of letters. Hidden in the pool are exactly four words that fit the theme, each four to nine letters long, and between them they use every letter exactly once. You click or type letters to spell a word and submit it; a right answer is coloured by its length, from red for the shortest to blue for the longest, and its letters leave the pool, which makes the rest easier to see.

The clock runs from your first move, so your score is your time. After five wrong guesses you may give up. Settings offer a dark theme, upper- or lower-case letters and a visibility assist. An archive page lists earlier themes with their four words, so you can see what you missed, though old puzzles cannot be played there.

It suits players who like anagrams and quick sessions: most days take a minute or two, and the theme is often the key.