Game Guides

Everything you need to get stuck into our word games - rules, scoring and a few tips from us.

Hive (Spelling Bee)

Learn the rules, controls and scoring for Spelling Bee, from your first word to Genius and Spelling Master.

Six goes to guess a five-letter word. Let the colour clues and a bit of logic do the rest.

The old classroom classic. Pick letters one at a time before the stick figure is finished off.

Master Word Search with our proper UK guide in British English: the rules, difficulty levels, clever scanning strategies and tips for the 10x10 grid.

Compare Mini and Midi, learn the shared rules and controls, and find tips for solving crossword clues.

Spelling Bee Pangrams: '-tion' Is Rarer Than You Think
We analysed 2007 British English Hive pangrams. 93% match none of the suffixes we tested. See the results and ways to search beyond endings.
The Best Wordle Starting Words in British English
Which Wordle starter should you try? We ranked 985 British English answers by positional letter frequency: SLATE, SHARE and CRANE lead.
Nearly Half of Every Wordsearch Hides Its Words Backwards
A behavioural analysis of 366 British English wordsearch puzzles shows that 50.2% of all hidden words run in a direction your eye has to read in reverse.