Spellunk is live today in our games section. Six words a day, one of each length from four letters to nine, every one of them taken from a Crust News article published in the past week. You get six guesses a word, and the guesses have to be real words.

We're not going to play around, this is a direct competitor to Wordle, but we wanted to offer more, and link it back to our coverage somehow. We've done this by offering 6 games of different lengths, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 letter length words, all pulled from words used in Crust News stories. If you get stuck, you can sacrifice a guess to reveal a letter, or reveal the sentence in our report to try guess the word.

Make your guesses, a letter in the right place squares itself into its hole, a letter in the wrong place fails to fit, and a letter that is not in the word falls off the page, landing in a pile under the board. This pile persists through each of your games, just as a reminder of how well or bad you're doing, and can be shared at the end of the game.

Three phone screens of Spellunk: the board with fallen letter scraps, a solved word with the sentence it came from, and the end of day card
Spellunk on a phone: the board with fallen scraps, a solved word with its sentence, and the card at the end of the day.

At the end of the six words the game draws you a card and text for you to share, with the day's guesses and the pile of fallen letters as they landed, and nothing on it that gives a word away to anyone who has not played. Paid members of Crust News get 80 more levels to play whenever they like, and that will increase by roughly 80 every week.

Spellunk now opens the Daily run, the new front page of Crust News Games. The run is ten games played in order, the same for everyone each day. Free readers play the run in order. Paid members open any game at any time, choose which games are in their run, and replay every past puzzle from the archive.

The entire board is now editable, so you can turn off any games in the daily run, or indeed, turn off the longer words in Spellunk if they prove to be too difficult.

The games are in the Games tab of the Crust News app and on any phone or desktop at crustnews.com/games. The Android app can remind you at an hour you choose, and only on the days you have not played.

The new addition to Crust News Games is now available to play, have fun.