ThruLine (Puzzle Society)

ThruLine is one of the Puzzle Society games from Andrews McMeel Universal, played on the GoComics puzzle pages. The Puzzle Society calls it a new take on the word scramble, in which you have mere seconds to spin seven sets of letters until they dial in on real words.

Each round shows a row of vertical columns, one per letter of the answer, each holding several letter tiles. A band runs across the middle of the board. Slide each column up or down, like the wheels of a combination lock, and the letters sitting in the band change; when the band reads a real word across, the round is solved. In the game's art the band reads C N U I A L V, half-turned, with LATIUMD and TAPSB among the columns.

There are seven rounds a day and a timer on each, so ThruLine is about quick recognition: seeing which letters in each column could start, continue and end a word. The answer must use one letter from every column.

ThruLine is included with a GoComics subscription, alongside the other Puzzle Society games. It is not the same game as the picture-linking daily that is also called Thruline.