Slideword

Slideword combines a sliding tile puzzle with a word hunt. Five secret words, each with a clue, have been scrambled across a 5x5 grid. You slide a whole row left or right, or a whole column up or down, with tiles wrapping around the edges, to bring letters into line. The puzzle is solved when every row spells one of the five words in its correct position.

Words only count across. A row that spells a word turns green; a word spelled down a column turns amber, the right word in the wrong direction, and does not count. In Easy mode each word locks the moment you spell it, so it holds still while you slide the others, and you can tap the padlock to unlock it. Hard mode never locks, so the whole grid must slide into place at once. Tapping a clue's bar reveals its word as a hint, and a clock times your solve.

Slideword is one of the daily games on Greatest Games, a site of word and logic puzzles. A new puzzle goes up every day at midnight US Eastern, the same for everyone, and it plays free in the browser with no account or download. The archive lists every Slideword since 28 February 2026: a free account plays the last 7 days, and the paid Greatest Games Plus opens all of them and turns off the ads the free pages show.