One start. One finish. Three hidden routes.
Daily Etymology Puzzles
One start. One finish. Three hidden routes.
One start, one finish, and three hidden routes between them. Step word to word by a shared root.
One start, one finish, and three different 4-hop routes hidden in the board between them.
Each hop shares a root — often disguised: fracture & infringe both mean “break.”
No Latin or Greek required. A small set of word-parts repeats across thousands of English words — once you see them, you can't unsee them.
A prefix often changes its last letter to match the next sound — but it's the same prefix:
One root can surface in different spellings — this is where the surprising links hide:
Peel off the prefix, look at the core, and trust that meanings drift: a fraction is a broken piece, a fragment a broken bit, to infringe is to break a rule — all “break.”
Every route you solve stays on screen with each hop's root labelled — the actual Latin source, like videre “see” or frangere “break.” Those roots you uncover become clues for the routes you haven't cracked yet, so the puzzle gets easier the further you get. Pay attention to the labels on your solved paths.