Rungs: Daily Word Ladder
Rungs is a free daily word ladder. Change one letter at a time to climb from the start word to the target word, matching or beating par — the shortest ladder through this build's compiled lexicon. A new puzzle appears every day at midnight UTC.
Climb from elain to shawm · par 6 steps
Hint ladder
One hint row per rung of the shortest ladder. Each press reveals more: word length, then a blanked dictionary-style gloss from this build's definition corpus, then the first letter.
Your stats
Stored only in this browser (localStorage). Nothing is sent to a server.
How to play
- Start from the given word and change exactly one letter per step.
- Every step must be a word in this build's ladder list — lengths 3–7 from the more common ranking bands of our compiled lexicon.
- Reach the target word. Par is the shortest possible ladder; fewer steps than par is impossible, matching it is a perfect climb.
- Stuck? Open the hint ladder: each rung reveals its length, then a blanked gloss, then its first letter.
- One puzzle per UTC day, and every past day since the archive began stays playable below.
Ladder membership is build-specific evidence from data version v1/2026.07-lexical.6, not a universal claim about English usage.
Archive
Replay a recent day's ladder. Archive games do not affect your streak.