Ngramble

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A familiar word around an unfamiliar slice of letters, in five turns.

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on ngramble.com

Ngramble puzzle no. 69 on desktop: nine tiles with ARTB fixed, one guess played with green and grey marks, four turns left and the on-screen keyboard

Ngramble is a daily word game built on a fragment. You see a run of letters fixed in the middle of a longer word, such as GG in a ten-letter word, and you have five turns to find the everyday word that contains it. Guesses are marked Wordle-style, and you can spend a turn to reveal a letter.

About Ngramble

Each Ngramble puzzle shows the length of a hidden word and a short fragment of its letters fixed in place, with blanks around them. The answer is always a familiar word, but many rarer words may fit the same slice, which is where the challenge lies.

You type a valid word; only the blanks need typing, as the known letters are skipped. After each guess, letters are marked: green is exact and becomes fixed, yellow is in the word but elsewhere and does not become fixed, and grey is absent. You have five turns in all, and tapping a blank and pressing Reveal uncovers that letter at the cost of a turn.

The puzzle is numbered and changes at midnight in your time zone, and everyone gets the same word on the same date. It began in 2026 and keeps your results and streak in the browser, with no account or leaderboard. When you finish, a result card shows your turns, your time, how many rarer words also fit the slice, and a button to share the result.

Ngramble was made by Matt Harbord, who got the idea from a word split across two lines of a book. Besides the daily there is a Practice page with five hand-picked fragments, which never touch your daily record.

It suits Wordle players who want a puzzle that rewards vocabulary and word structure over letter elimination, and anyone who enjoys spotting the common word hiding among rare ones.

How to play Ngramble

Open Ngramble and look at the fixed fragment and the word length.
Type a valid word that fits around the fragment; only the blanks need typing.
Read the marks: green is exact and fixed, yellow is elsewhere, grey is absent.
Spend a turn on Reveal to uncover a chosen blank if needed.
Find the familiar word within five turns.

Screenshots

Ngramble puzzle no. 69 at phone size: the nine-letter board after one guess, the turns used list and the keyboard at the foot of the screen

Tips

Think of common words first: the answer is a familiar word even when rare ones fit.
Use prefixes and suffixes such as -ING, -ED and RE- to fill the edges quickly.
Yellow letters do not lock in, so try them in other blanks on the next guess.
Save Reveal for a blank that splits several possible answers.