Frequently Asked Questions

MyWordIQ is a free word-game website with three daily games: MyWordIQ, a clue-based puzzle; SPARES, a drop-a-letter word chain; and ClueLoop, a five-word chain that loops back to its start. All three run in your browser with no download and no account.

Each game publishes one puzzle per calendar day. Everyone gets the same puzzle on the same date, and it changes at midnight in your local time. Refreshing the page never changes today’s puzzle, and your progress on it is saved as you go.

Each game keeps its own streak. Completing a game’s daily puzzle on consecutive calendar days increases the streak by one per day. Missing a day resets the current streak to zero; your longest streak is always kept. In MyWordIQ, running out of guesses also ends the streak. Archive puzzles do not affect streaks.

You start with a word and a clue. Remove exactly one letter from the word, rearrange the remaining letters into the answer to the clue, and repeat from the new word. Chains have three, four or five steps depending on difficulty.

A spare is a letter you removed during a SPARES chain. Spares collect in a tray in the order you dropped them, and when the chain is finished they spell a bonus word. You can also try to call the bonus word early using its clue.

ClueLoop gives you five clues. The last letter of each answer is the first letter of the next answer, so solving one word gives you a letter in each of its neighbors. You can solve the clues in any order.

The fifth answer in a ClueLoop ends with the same letter that the first answer starts with, so the chain joins back on itself. “Loop Closed” is the completion message you see once all five answers are in place.

Yes. Every game has an archive listing each puzzle released so far, by number and date, without spoilers. You can filter for puzzles you have not played or pick a random one.

No. There is no sign-up and no login. Everything works as soon as the page loads.

Puzzles are written in advance in American English and stored as data files. Before a batch is published it is run through automated checks — for example, that every SPARES step really is the previous word minus one letter, and that every ClueLoop chain closes — and the clues are reviewed for clarity and fairness.

Hints are free and optional. MyWordIQ has one hint per puzzle, a second and more direct clue. SPARES and ClueLoop each offer two hints per word, the second stronger than the first. Using hints is reflected in your shared result. You are never asked to watch an advertisement or pay to get a hint.

Your progress, results, streaks and statistics are saved in your own browser using local storage. They are not sent to us and are not linked to your identity. Because they live in the browser, they do not follow you to another device, and clearing your browser data erases them.

MyWordIQ is free to play and is intended to be supported by advertising, primarily through Google AdSense. Advertisements are kept apart from the game board and its buttons, are labeled, and never have to be viewed or clicked to play, get a hint or continue. See the Advertising Disclosure for details.

Yes. Some pages include links to products on Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. These links are marked “(paid link)”, appear only in content sections and never inside a game. See the Affiliate Disclosure for details.