Keyword Game

Keyword hides a six-letter word across six shorter words on a small grid. Each of those six words is missing exactly one letter, and the missing letters, read in order, spell out the puzzle’s keyword. Every square you fill has to satisfy two words at once — the one running across and the one running down through it — so a guess that looks right for one direction can still be wrong for the other.

The puzzle resets daily. There’s a fixed guess budget shared across the whole grid, so a handful of wrong answers early can leave you short by the time you’re closing in on the keyword itself.

Tips & Tricks

Work the crossing word before committing to a guess. A letter can look obviously right for the across word and still be wrong once you check what it needs to spell going down — checking both first saves a wasted guess.

Save riskier guesses for squares where you already have a strong read on both directions. Early in the grid, when most squares are still blank, a wrong guess teaches you less than it costs, since you don’t yet have crossing letters to compare it against.

Once two or three letters of the keyword are locked in, treat it like a mini word puzzle on its own — common six-letter patterns narrow down fast once you have a few letters fixed in place.