What is Smartle?
Smartle hands you a five-by-five grid of jumbled letters and one job: put them in order so that each of the five rows spells a proper five-letter word. All the letters you need are already on the board, so the puzzle is about rearranging rather than guessing. You move letters around, watch which ones settle into the right places, and slowly the nonsense turns into five neat words. The early moves feel like a scramble; the last few feel like a lock clicking open, because every letter you place correctly narrows down where the others can go. Smartle aims to be a calm, unhurried puzzle, and it has grown extras such as a word finder, a dictionary with short definitions and versions in German and Spanish. It suits fans of Waffle and anagram puzzles, and anyone who prefers tidying a messy board to guessing a hidden word from scratch.
How to play
- All 25 letters you need are already on the grid, just in the wrong places.
- Move letters around until each row spells a five-letter word.
- Use the letters that are already right to work out where the rest belong.
