Squiggle: Daily Word Trace

Every squiggle is the line a finger leaves when it swipe-types a word on a phone keyboard. You get the line. You work out the word. Three squiggles a day, four, six and eight letters, with four guesses each. The squiggle floats free of the keys, so you can't just read it off the keyboard: you slide it around in your head until the corners land on letters that make a word. Each guess reports distance, not letters. A corner on the right key goes green, a corner one key away goes amber, and the rest stay cold. Nothing tells you whether a letter is "in the word somewhere". Only the shape does. Then round four flips it. You get a word and draw its squiggle from memory, one stroke across blank keys, scored against the real trace. Solving earns ink. Ink buys hints: the first letter, the last letter, a middle letter, or the whole squiggle dropped onto the real keyboard. Finish the day and the…