UMBLE

UMBLE is one of the small daily games on Take5Games, a site run by J Krishnamurthi that offers about twenty short puzzles a day. Its board is five rows of five tiles. Every row is a real five-letter word with its letters shuffled, and one tile in each row is a yellow "?" standing in for a letter you have to work out.

You solve a row by tapping its tiles in the order that spells the word. When you reach the "?" you are choosing where the missing letter goes, and once the row reads as a dictionary word it turns green and the letter it needed drops into a strip of five boxes above the board. Those five letters, top to bottom, spell the day's vertical word. On 8 November 2026 the first row held S, S, L and A plus the blank, which became GLASS and gave a G for the strip. Any real anagram counts for a row, so a different valid word can still be accepted, though it may hand the strip a different letter.

Every player gets the same five words on the same day. The page works through a fixed list of 633 puzzles one per day from 30 November 2025, with the new one appearing at midnight UTC. A timer runs while you play, and the result is a medal: gold for all five words, silver for four and bronze for three. The page keeps your streak, best streak, games played and wins in the browser, and a share button copies your result.

The idea will feel familiar to anyone who has done a newspaper Jumble, where circled letters build a final answer. Here the letters feeding the final word are the ones missing from each row, so you have to guess which letter completes a word as well as how to order it. Two looks, "Plain" and "Vintage", change the board's style, and a short demo walks through a sample puzzle before you start. It suits players who like a quick anagram with a small extra step, and a whole day takes a few minutes.