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Challenge your mind with the 5-Letter Word Scramble Daily Challenge Quiz and improve your vocabulary skills.

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5-Letter Word Scramble Daily Challenge

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Each day at midnight US Central Time, you’ll get a new set of 5 unique letters. Your goal is to form as many valid words as possible (from the official Scrabble word list) using only those letters. You don’t need to use all the letters, but no others are allowed.

Example (letters: abelp): valid words include peal, babble, bell, etc.

Longer words (8+ letters) earn time bonuses. Points are awarded by word length:

1-letter: 1 pt
2-letter: 2 pts
3-letter: 3 pts
4-letter: 4 pts
5-letter: 5 pts
6-letter: 7 pts
7-letter: 9 pts
8-letter: 12 pts
9-letter: 16 pts
10-letter: 20 pts
11-letter: 30 pts
12-letter: 40 pts
13-letter: 50 pts

The leaderboard resets daily at midnight. Before starting, you can play a previous day’s quiz by clicking on ‘Play A Previous Date’ and choosing an available date (in red) from the calendar.

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madibeck

2 months ago

i hope everyone in the comments gets as happy as i do when i see repeat players every day 🙂

RikLarssen

3 months ago

Great addition, since english is not my main language its also nice and tricky. Could there be a way to see the x longest words (atleast all 10+) to see where the hidden gems are?

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darin

3 months ago

Reply to RikLarssen

Because the quiz is replayable I’m not going to give any answers at the end for now.

RikLarssen

3 months ago

Reply to darin

Maybe something could be added at some point to see last days answer (also maybe most given answers for example). Thanks again though! like the new games!

mjsinn

4 months ago

love this addition!

Yampants

4 months ago

It would be great to see past leaderboards for this

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darin

4 months ago

Reply to Yampants

I’ve just added this feature to play previous dates.

Last edited 4 months ago by darin

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