Sandwich (Daily Mail)

About Sandwich (Daily Mail)

Sandwich opens on a start screen with a toasted-sandwich icon marked A to Z, the line find the word between and the day's date. Puzzlr, which makes several of the Daily Mail's games, built it; in Puzzlr's own system the game is called Word Between.

The rules fit in a sentence: guess the hidden word that sits alphabetically between two boundary words. Type any word that falls inside the current range. If your guess comes after the secret word in the alphabet, it takes the place of the upper boundary; if it comes before, it replaces the lower one. Either way the gap shrinks. The game tells you the length of today's word, rejects words that are not in its list or not between the boundaries, and counts down from 10 guesses. Solve it and the result screen grades you by how many guesses you needed, and the share text shows a row of up and down arrows for your guesses.

A new word comes at midnight UK time, the same for everyone. Sandwich is free on the Daily Mail games page, with ads on the site. It suits players who like a quick word game that rewards a good sense of the dictionary more than spelling luck.

How to play Sandwich (Daily Mail)

1. Open Sandwich on the Daily Mail games page and press Play.
2. Look at the two boundary words and the length of today's word.
3. Type a word that sits alphabetically between the boundaries.
4. Your guess replaces the upper boundary if it comes after the secret word, or the lower one if it comes before.
5. Keep narrowing the gap until you find the word, within 10 guesses.

Tips

• Treat it like a binary search: guess a word near the middle of the range each time.
• Use the word length to rule out guesses that are close alphabetically but too long or short.
• Once the boundaries share their first two or three letters, think of words that start with that prefix.
• A guess that just misses still helps: it becomes the new edge.

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