FOUR OF A KIND DAILY

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Daily puzzle · One puzzle a day · Same for everyone

Sort 16 words into 4 hidden groups.

One word is a red herring — it plausibly fits more than one group. Find all four groups before you run out of lives.

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Keeper, the card-keeping owl host
Keeper, the card-keeping owl

Puzzle #—
3 lives
A wrong group costs one life. Three wrong groups ends the day.
~3 minutes
Median solve time. No timer pressure — think it through.
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Daily puzzle

Pick four words that belong together

Tap four tiles, then Submit. Watch out for the red herring.

How to play · 30 seconds to learn

Four groups. Sixteen words. One trickster.

1

Pick four

Tap four tiles you believe share a hidden theme — a category, a word pattern, a shared meaning.

2

Submit, learn, adjust

A right group locks in and reveals its theme. A wrong group costs a life. Three shared words with a true group gives a "One away!" hint — without naming the odd tile.

3

Beat the herring

One word fits two groups on purpose. The last group is always the test of whether you spotted it.

Tip: solve the clearest group first. Every locked group removes four tiles and makes the herring easier to spot.

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Welcome — your first puzzle, step by step

1. Tap four words that share a hidden theme. 2. Press Submit. A correct group locks in and reveals its theme. 3. A wrong group costs a life — you have three. 4. One word is a herring: it fits two groups, so save the trickiest group for last.

Keeper's tip: solve the clearest group first. Every solved group removes four tiles.

Help

Stuck? Use a Hint: the first hint each day is free and reveals one unsolved theme; further hints cost 20 coins you earned in-game. "One away!" means three of your four tiles belong to a real group — swap the fourth. Out of lives? The recap shows all four groups and the herring explanation so the next puzzle is easier.

Controls: tap or click tiles; keyboard arrows move between tiles, Enter or Space selects, Submit is a button. Music and sound toggles live in Settings. Your progress saves on this device and can be exported from Settings.