Games like Wordle, in UK English
If you enjoy Wordle, Link Ladder gives you the same daily habit and the same coloured-letter clues, with a different kind of challenge: instead of one hidden word, you solve a chain of ten linked words.
Play today’s Link Ladder
What Link Ladder shares with Wordle
- One puzzle a day, the same for everyone, with a new one at midnight UK time.
- Coloured feedback after each wrong guess: green for the right letter in the right place, orange for a letter in the wrong place, grey for a letter that isn’t in the word.
- A spoiler-free result grid you can share with friends.
- Free in the browser, with nothing to download.
What’s different
- Ten words, not one. Each word joins the next to make a compound word or phrase, such as SNOW → BALL → ROOM → SERVICE.
- Meaning matters. As well as letters, you’re looking for words that fit together: the word before and the word after both help.
- Three chances per word, and a missed word is revealed so you can always finish the ladder.
- Lifelines. Each day you can reveal the next letter, reveal a random letter, or get a clue for up to two words.
- British English spelling and vocabulary throughout.
- Stars and leaderboards: up to five stars a day, a daily leaderboard and an all-time leaderboard for signed-in players.
Other daily word games worth a try
- Wordle: guess a five-letter word in six tries.
- Connections: sort sixteen words into four hidden groups.
- Strands: find themed words hidden in a letter grid.
- Waffle: swap letters to fix a grid of six words.
Link Ladder sits alongside these as a quick daily puzzle that takes a few minutes. Give today’s ladder a go and see how many stars you get.
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