Stet (Mind Loft)

Stet is a proofreading puzzle on Mind Loft, a free site of daily browser games. Each day there is a short news brief of five sentences, the same for every player. Almost every sentence hides one wrong word: an eggcorn such as "free reign", a homophone swapped for its twin, a malapropism, or a grammar slip like "should of" or "had ran". Every error is a real English word, so a spellchecker would pass the whole brief. On the day we looked, one sentence had a solicitor's client advised of "his write to silence".

You tap the word that does not belong, type the correction and lock it in. Finding an error earns a point and fixing it earns another. Some sentences are perfectly clean, though, and the only way to score those is to stamp them stet, the proofreader's mark from the Latin for "let it stand". Miss a call either way and the desk shows what you should have caught, with a one-line note explaining why.

There are no typos in the game, only wrong words and slips of grammar. A new brief goes up at midnight US Eastern Time. The Sunday edition runs to seven sentences, and a single sentence can hide two errors.

It suits anyone who notices "baited breath" in a headline, and pairs well with Mind Loft's other word dailies such as Lode, Rung and Shards.