Word Sprint

Word Sprint is a daily word puzzle from the Semantle family of sites, made by Ryan Carmody and Praveen Latchamsetty and run by The Word Finder. Each day has one numbered secret word and five hint words related to it. On 20 October 2026, puzzle 983, the hints began with citrusy, drink and squeeze and pointed to juicer; earlier days have pointed to iron (metal, laundry, magnet) and soup (broth, creamy, savory).

The hints are not all shown at once. You start with a single hint card, and each wrong guess turns over the next one, so a quick answer is worth more than a slow one. You have five guesses in all. Each is scored with a percentage for how close it is in meaning to the secret word, worked out with word vectors in the way Semantle does it, so a wrong guess still tells you whether you are near: lemon scored 86 percent on the juicer day and blender 99.

The game started out as Word Chase and has been renamed Word Sprint; a banner on its page now points to a different game called Word Chase on CleverGoat. A new puzzle comes out at 23:00 UTC every day, which is 7 pm in New York in summer, and the page converts it to your local time. An archive lists every past puzzle by number and date, and players can also write their own puzzles for others under User games.

It is free, shows banner ads, needs no account and takes a minute or two, which makes it a quick warm-up next to Semantle or Cemantle.