Zigora
Live nowCrack the clue. Keep the word.
A cozy word game where the words are the fun — richer and stranger than the usual. Work out the hidden word from a one-line clue, and collect the ones worth keeping.
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Scan to play on your phoneAbout Zigora
Most word games draw on the same few thousand everyday words. Zigora’s bank runs to more than two thousand — CREVASSE, TAPIOCA, SCHOONER, GADWALL — picked for texture rather than difficulty. Each arrives with its meaning, and more than 1,800 carry a written origin story: where the word came from, and how it reached you.
A puzzle takes a few minutes. Everyone gets the same word on the same day, so there’s always something to compare — and everything you solve stays with you in a Collection graded Common to Legendary.
Mystery is the long way round: a road of more than 1,300 words, one to a stop, climbing as you go. Matching charges a bar you spend to name a letter yourself — and on words with many different letters, a letter or two never appears on the board at all. Stars are recorded against the word rather than the stop, so what you worked out stays yours.
Highlights
Five things that make a round worth coming back to.
Your Collection
Every word you solve joins a gallery graded Common to Legendary. Tap to hear it, or read the story of where it came from.
A fresh puzzle every day
A new Daily Challenge every day — everyone plays the same word — with a streak you’ll want to protect. Miss a day, or miss the word, and it resets.
Deduce the hidden word
The answer’s hidden — work it out from a one-line clue, with an example sentence a tap away. In the Daily Challenge, matching colors charges a bar you spend on a guess, a revealed letter, or another clue, such as a riddle or the word’s origin.
Share your rarest words
Turn any word you’ve caught into a clean shareable card — flex the rare finds and pull friends in.
Modes for every mood
Mystery runs a road of more than 1,300 words, one to a stop. Beside it: the Campaign level by level, Marathon on a move pool, and Time Attack against a 75-second clock that every solved word extends.
Today’s word is waiting.
Play now — no installToday’s word puzzle, right in your browserPlay with friends
Better with a rival
Zigora’s Daily Challenge turns into a game between friends.
Duels
Challenge a friend to the same word. Highest score wins — take your turn whenever, and once you’ve both played, see who solved it sharper.
Friend leaderboard
Add friends by a short code and race the Daily Challenge on a board that’s just your circle — ranked by score. No strangers, no noise.
See who’s played and whose turn it is — jump back in and take yours whenever.
Friends & Duels live in the Zigora app.
Questions
- Do I need to install anything?
- No. Today’s Daily Challenge plays in your browser — no download, no sign-up. The app adds Friends, Duels and the other game modes.
- Do I need an account?
- No. You can play without one, and your progress lives on your device. Link an email only if you want to keep it when you change phones or reinstall.
- When does the daily puzzle change?
- At midnight UTC. Everyone plays the same word during the same UTC day, wherever they are — so if it’s still today where you are and the word has changed, that’s why.
- What does it cost?
- Nothing. The browser Daily Challenge and the app cost nothing to play, on iOS and Android.
Play today’s word
Right in your browser, no install. Friends and Duels come with the app.