Litclues

Litclues is a grouping puzzle in the style of Connections, built from literature. Each day's board has sixteen tiles: novels, poems, authors, translators and fictional characters. Four of them always share something. One past board grouped novels set aboard a submarine, writers whose names open with a US state, poems by W. H. Auden and Nobel laureates who also worked as translators; another had characters with a colour for a surname and poets who put Homer's Iliad into English.

You select four tiles and press Submit. A right guess locks the group in its colour, which shows its difficulty from Easy to Expert; a wrong one costs one of your four mistakes. A shuffle button rearranges the tiles when you are stuck.

Litclues is one of the xClues games, alongside Filmclues for films and Musiclues for music, each with its own daily board that turns over at midnight UTC. The archive lists every past day with its four groups revealed. It is a page of answers, so old boards cannot be played again.

The groups run from children's books to poetry in translation, so it rewards wide reading more than knowledge of one genre. Few daily games are about books, which makes it a good pick for readers who already play the word games.

The board of 29 October 2026 mixed the Three Musketeers, the four Stark children from A Song of Ice and Fire, and tales of very small people such as Thumbelina and The Borrowers. When the day is done the game shows your record of wins and your current and longest streak, and a Share button copies the coloured squares of your guesses.