1. Ristikkotupa
2. How to play

How to play

Every game page has its rules, tips and answers to common questions. The guides below go further: how to begin, what each language’s letters give away, and how to solve by elimination.

Guides

• A first evening at Ristikkotupa

  Where to start, how the controls work on a phone and with a keyboard, what hints and undo do, and how your progress is kept in the browser.

• Letter patterns in four languages

  What English, Italian, Hungarian and Finnish words give away: endings, letter pairs, long vowels and vowel harmony, and how to use them in each game.

• Solving step by step: ladders, wheels and grids

  How par works in Word Ladder, why lengths come first in Fill-In, how a Letter Wheel grid gives away word lengths, and when a hint is worth taking.

Rules for each game

• Word Search

  Themed words hidden in a square of letters. Drag across a word to circle it.

  40 numbered puzzlesEasy · Medium · Hard

• Letter Wheel

  A handful of letters on a wheel and a little grid to fill with the words they make.

  40 numbered puzzlesEasy · Medium · Hard

• Hidden Word

  One five-letter word, six tries. Every guess shows which letters are right.

  40 numbered puzzlesEasy · Medium · Hard

• Word Ladder

  Climb from one word to another, changing a single letter at every rung.

  40 numbered puzzlesEasy · Medium · Hard

• Ana­grams

  Scrambled letters, one word at a time. The words grow longer as you go.

  40 numbered puzzlesEasy · Medium · Hard

• Fill-In

  A criss-cross grid and a list of words to fit. There is only one way to place them all.

  40 numbered puzzlesEasy · Medium · Hard