Daily Word Competition
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Help
Common questions
This article is available in English only.
- Do I need an account?
- No. There is no account and no email. The app makes a random install ID on your phone, and Settings shows it as your Player ID. You can play right away; a nickname is optional, you pick one on your results when you want to join the leaderboard, and that name is what the boards show. You can change it in Settings.
- What are the six games?
- They’re on Home in this order:
- Unknown Five Letters: guess the hidden five-letter word in six tries. Fewest guesses wins.
- Anagrams: slide across a 4×4 grid of letters to spell as many words as you can in 60 seconds. Longer words score more. Most points wins.
- Crossword: a quick mini crossword with plain, fair clues. Fastest correct grid wins.
- Word Scramble: unscramble five words, from four letters up to seven. Any real word that uses all the letters counts.
- Word Search: find eight words on the day’s theme, hidden across, down and diagonally.
- Crossword Scramble: make words from one set of scrambled letters. Each word that belongs in the crossword fills its slot automatically. Find them all. Fastest wins.
- How does Anagrams scoring work?
- Words need three letters or more, and each letter can be used once per word. Longer words score more. When the clock reaches 0:00, most points wins; a tie goes to whoever reached the score first. Finding no words counts as DNF.
- How does Crossword Scramble work?
- You get one set of scrambled letters, in a circle under a crossword of empty slots. Make words from those letters: slide your finger from letter to letter and lift to send the word, or tap the letters one at a time and then Submit. Clear empties your word, and the shuffle button in the middle of the circle mixes the letters again if you want a fresh look. Each letter can be used once per word, and one of the words uses every letter. Each word that belongs in the crossword fills its slot automatically, and the words that cross it show those letters. A real word that isn’t in this crossword, or one you already found, costs nothing. Something that isn’t a word counts as a miss, but misses don’t change your rank. Find every word to finish; fastest time wins.
- Why can I play each puzzle only once a day?
- Everyone in the world gets the same six puzzles each day and one try at each, so the leaderboard is fair. Press Start for a 3-2-1 countdown, then the puzzle appears and the clock starts. Once it starts, that is your try for the day, whether you solve it, give up, or leave it.
- What happens if I give up?
- The app asks first. Then the answer fills in step by step, so you can see how it’s done, and you’re listed as DNF (did not finish) for that puzzle. Anagrams has no Give up: it ends when its 60 seconds run out.
- When do new puzzles and boards arrive?
- Every day at midnight UTC. That is when the new puzzles appear and the daily leaderboards reset. Depending on where you live, midnight UTC may fall in your afternoon, evening, or morning. The monthly points race starts fresh on the 1st of each month.
- How does the monthly race work?
- Every finish earns points by your place on that day’s board. Your points add up through the month, and the monthly board starts over on the 1st, so anyone can win.
- How do I challenge a friend?
- Tap Challenge on your results and send the link. Your friend can play that game in a browser at dwc.stealthlaunched.com, with no download, while it’s still that day’s puzzle, and then see who won. The website plays only the game you were challenged to; the other games are in the app. It shows no ads and sells nothing. Anyone with the link can see your nickname, the game, the day, and your result.
- Nickname rules
- Keep nicknames friendly: no slurs, no sexual, hateful or violent names, and no pretending to be someone else. Names that break these rules are removed, and the player can be banned from the leaderboards.
- How do I report a nickname?
- Tap the player’s name on a leaderboard (long-press works too) and choose Report nickname. Your email app opens a message to us with the nickname, game, board, and day filled in; just send it. You can also email contact@stealthlaunch.com with the nickname and where you saw it. If it breaks the nickname rules, we take that player’s scores off the boards or block them. To stop seeing someone, tap the name and choose Hide this player: on your device, it shows as “Hidden player” on every board.
- What is Daily Word Competition Plus?
- An optional subscription, monthly or yearly, sold through the App Store or Google Play. In the Archive, it lets you play any past day you haven’t played yet, in all six games, and it removes the ad after a game. Archive plays are timed but never ranked, so Plus gives no edge on the leaderboards. Today’s puzzles, every leaderboard, the Archive calendar, and your stats are free for everyone.
- How do I restore my purchase?
- In the app, open Settings, tap See what you get in the Plus panel at the top, then tap Restore purchases. Or tap the Daily Word Competition Plus banner on Home, then Restore purchases. Make sure you are signed in to the same Apple ID or Google account that bought the subscription.
- How do I manage or cancel Daily Word Competition Plus on iPhone?
- In the app, open Settings and tap Manage subscription in the Plus panel at the top. Or open the iPhone Settings app, tap your name, then Subscriptions, choose Daily Word Competition Plus, and change or cancel it. Cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends to avoid the next renewal. Refunds for App Store purchases are handled by Apple.
- How do I manage or cancel Daily Word Competition Plus on Android?
- In the app, open Settings and tap Manage subscription in the Plus panel at the top. Or open the Google Play Store app, tap your profile picture, then Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions, choose Daily Word Competition Plus, and change or cancel it. Refunds for Google Play purchases are handled by Google.
- I reinstalled the app (or got a new phone). Where did my nickname and history go?
- Your identity is the install ID kept on the phone, with no account behind it. Reinstalling the app or moving to a new phone creates a new install ID, so your nickname, history, and streaks can’t be carried over. Past scores stay on the boards under the old nickname. A browser you played a challenge in has its own install ID too. Your Daily Word Competition Plus subscription belongs to your Apple ID or Google account, so use Restore purchases to get it back.
- Which languages does the app support?
- English. Everyone in the world plays the same English words, so the competition stays fair.
- How do I change my ad privacy choices?
- Without Plus, a short, non-personalized ad from Google AdMob may play after a game. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, Google asks for your consent first, and Settings shows Privacy choices (ads) so you can change your answer any time.
- How do I remove my scores or data?
- Email contact@stealthlaunch.com with your Player ID (in Settings) and your nickname. If you can’t get the Player ID, send your nickname and, if you can, the day and game of one of your scores. We’ll delete that player’s nickname and every attempt within 30 days, which also ends their challenge links, and confirm by email. See Delete your data.
- Privacy
- Read the Privacy Policy.
Licenses
Credits
The word lists and the font in Daily Word Competition come from these projects. Thank you to their authors.
- wordfreq
- Our word lists are adapted from wordfreq by Robyn Speer, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. We kept English words of three to seven letters, removed some, and added a few newer ones. Our lists are shared under the same license. wordfreq’s data comes from Google Books Ngrams, Wikipedia, ParaCrawl, the Leeds Internet Corpus, OpenSubtitles, and SUBTLEX (Marc Brysbaert et al.).
- SCOWL
- Words are checked against the Hunspell en_US dictionary, made from SCOWL by Kevin Atkinson and packaged as dictionary-en by Titus Wormer (MIT and BSD licenses).
- an-array-of-english-words
- Abbreviations, names and brands are left out with the help of an-array-of-english-words by Zeke Sikelianos (MIT license).
- Nunito
- The font is Nunito, copyright 2014 The Nunito Project Authors, licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.