Race to the word.

Yes. Every race, every difficulty and every leaderboard is free to play, and nothing you could pay for changes how races are ranked.

No. Press start and you are racing as a guest with a random name. Create a free account to appear on the leaderboards and keep your stats; your guest results come with you.

The Daily Race has one word per difficulty per day, the same for everyone, and one attempt at it. New words come at midnight Eastern (New York time).

Daily results rank hint-free solves first, then by guesses, then by time. Unsolved results rank last. The clock starts when your board appears and stops when you finish. Our server keeps the time, so it’s fair for everyone. Weekly, monthly and all-time boards rank by average points per race, so playing more never outranks playing better. You’re ranked once you’ve raced on at least half of the board’s days so far (never more than 30 races for all time), and only while you’ve raced in the last 14 days.

Your board waits for you: come back the same day and pick up where you left off, with your guesses and hints. The Daily Race clock never pauses, even if you close the tab: we can’t check a pause from our side, and it would let anyone think off the clock. Each day’s race closes at midnight Eastern, when the next one opens. A race still unfinished then counts as unsolved: no points, and no solve for your streak that day. Practice keeps an unfinished word for 24 hours. The Practice clock pauses while you’re away and picks up where it stopped. Practice isn’t ranked, so a pause needs no checking.

Words have 4–6 letters depending on difficulty (Easy 4, Normal 5, Hard 6). You get 7 guesses at every difficulty.

You can use up to 3 hints per race. Each hint places one letter of the word in its right spot, picked from the spots you haven’t found yet. It shows in that spot on every row for the rest of the game, and you type it in yourself: every guess must have it there. Your guesses never use up hints, but a hint never gives away the last letter. Hint-free solves always rank first. Each hint costs 150 points on the weekly, monthly and all-time boards.

Yes. Practice deals unlimited random words at any difficulty. It’s never ranked and never counts toward your stats.

Yes. Sprintile runs in any modern browser on phone, tablet or desktop, with nothing to install.