Sentle

Sentle is a daily sentence puzzle drawn from public-domain literature. Each day's sentence arrives in pieces, a handful of phrases in a scrambled row, together with a short line about where it comes from and the line or two that lead up to it in the original text. Your job is to put the phrases back in the order the author wrote them.

You drag a phrase into place, or tap one and then tap where it should go. The first phrase always gets a capital letter and the last the right end punctuation, so the shape of the sentence does not give the answer away. Press Check and correctly placed phrases turn green and lock while the rest turn amber. If you are stuck, a hint merges phrases into bigger chunks. Once you finish, there is a bonus: name the work it came from.

New players start with a warm-up, a famous opening such as Tolstoy's line about happy families, before the day's sentence. An archive lets you replay every past day, and progress is kept in your browser, with an optional email link to restore it on another device.

Sentle is made by an English teacher who first built it as a classroom warm-up, and its For Teachers page suggests using the day's sentence as a five-minute starter. An Every sentence page lists past puzzles some weeks after they run, each with a short note on the grammar that holds the sentence together, so those pages give the answers away. The game is free, asks for no account and shows no ads.