Cadgy

Cadgy is a daily word puzzle that challenges you to find 20 five-letter words hidden in a grid of five columns by picking one letter from each column.

The game presents you with five vertical columns of letters. Your job is to form valid words by selecting exactly one tile from each column, working left to right. Each puzzle contains 10 basic words and 10 bonus words. The basic words are common and clue-free. The bonus words are trickier, ranging from scientific terms to Latin phrases, but you get cryptic clues below the grid to guide you.

• Tap or type letters to form words, one from each column.
• Find all 10 basic words without help.
• Use clues to hunt down 10 bonus words (think mosquito genera, foreign phrases, obscure vocabulary).
• Each correct word scores 10 points for a perfect 200.
• Tiles turn gold once you've found every word that uses them.
• Win by reaching 200 points in under 3 minutes or without any invalid guesses.
• A new human-edited puzzle drops every day.

Why we like it:

• ✅The column constraint turns familiar vocabulary into a genuine spatial puzzle.
• ✅Bonus word clues are delightfully nerdy without being impossible.
• ✅Watching tiles turn gold gives you real-time feedback on what's left to find.

Hint: Start with common patterns like -ED, -ER, or -ES endings. Once you knock out the basics, the bonus clues become much easier to map onto the remaining letter combinations.