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Banish Your Fears

by Doug Beeferman and OneLook

Match fears with their phobia names.

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Objective

Drag blue phobia terms to their matching green definitions across five rounds to earn points without making mistakes.

Playlin'sGuide

Banish Your Fears is a daily drag and drop vocabulary game from OneLook where your mission is to match phobias with the fears they represent across 5 rounds without hitting wrong answers.

Each round presents you with a grid of phobia terms in blue and their plain language meanings in green. Drag a phobia to its matching fear, or vice versa. Get it right and the pair disappears. Touch a wrong match and you lose points.

  • Drag blue phobia terms to green definitions, or green to blue.
  • Each round has five phobia-fear pairs to match.
  • Wrong matches cost you points but don't end the round.
  • Complete all 5 rounds to finish the daily puzzle.
  • Perfect score is 500 points total.

Why we like it:

  • βœ…Teaches real vocabulary in a way that actually sticks.
  • βœ…The drag and drop mechanic feels more tactile than multiple choice.
  • βœ…Quick to play but genuinely educational.

Hint: If you recognize even part of a root word, start there. "Agoraphobia" shares a root with "agora," the ancient Greek marketplace, which points straight to public spaces. Break down the Greek or Latin and half the puzzle solves itself.

Playlin's Guide is based on our experience and details from the creator’s official site.

About the Game

Creator: Doug Beeferman

Publisher: OneLook

Category: Word Games

Also in: Wordy Oddities

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