Games for the waiting room of luck.

Fill the grid so every row, column and 3×3 box holds 1 to 9 once each. Tap a cell, then a number. Mistakes glow coral as you go.

Three fresh boards a day, Easy, Medium, Hard, machine-made and certified to have exactly one solution. The clock counts up, no pressure; beat your own best.

Each solve counts toward your streak. Want another go at a difficulty you've already solved today? 10 razoos gets you a fresh board, just for fun, it won't touch your streak or medals.

Fit every piece onto the board until it's completely full. Tap a piece, then tap the square where its first cell should go, the square you tap is always part of the piece. Tap a placed piece to lift it off.

One board a day, machine-cut so a perfect fit always exists. No timer pressure, the clock just counts.

Four real words got their letters shuffled. Tap two tiles to swap them. Green = right spot; gold = right row, wrong spot.

You have a limited number of swaps, spend them wisely. Solve it and spare swaps are your brag.

The emoji retell a famous film. Guess the title! Wrong guesses unlock up to three clues, fewer clues, more points (50 down to 15). Four misses and the film is revealed.

Spelling doesn't have to be perfect, close enough counts. One film a day.

Five words on one theme have been smashed into fragments. Tap fragments in order to build a word, when it matches, it locks in green. Tap a picked fragment in the build line to put it back.

All fragments get used exactly once. One board a day.

Sixteen tiles hide four groups of four. Tap four tiles that belong together, then hit Submit.

Colours show difficulty: gold easiest, then green, blue, and purple for the tricky one.

One board a day counts toward your streak. Want another go after that? 10 razoos gets you a fresh board, just for fun, it won't touch your streak or medals.

Watch for traps, some words look like they belong to two groups. You have three lives: a wrong guess costs one, and when they're gone the board reveals itself. "One away!" means three of your four were right.

All-Aussie boards: every puzzle is local, no obscure American trivia, guaranteed.

The basics: make words from the seven letters. Tap letters (or type), then hit Enter.

✓ A word counts if it:

✓ Has 4 or more letters
✓ Uses the gold centre letter at least once
✓ Uses only the seven letters shown, repeats are fine (e.g. LULL from one L)
✓ Is an everyday English word, Aussie & British spellings (COLOUR, REALISE) and American ones (COLOR) both count
✓ Aussie slang counts too: ESKY, ARVO, SERVO, CHOOK and mates are in the dictionary
✓ Plurals and word forms count: MATE, MATES, MATED are all separate words

✗ A word won't count if it:

✗ Is a name of a person, place, or brand, LONDON, SYDNEY, HOLDEN all bounce (standard rules for this kind of game)
✗ Is shorter than 4 letters, skips the gold letter, or uses letters outside the hive
✗ Is an abbreviation, an acronym, or hyphenated
✗ Is extremely obscure or technical, the dictionary aims for words people actually use

Scoring: 4-letter words = 1 point; longer words = 1 point per letter. A word using all seven letters is a pangram: +7 bonus.

Levels climb with your points: Have a Crack → Warming Up → Solid Effort → Ripper → Bloody Legend → Absolute Weapon. We clock your pace to each level, race your own best.

How a day works: tap Play and the letters appear. Take all the time you like, chip away over smoko. When you're done, hit Reveal & finish and the full answer list shows: green for words you got, coral for the ones that got away (pangrams glow gold). Then that's it: one hive a day, fresh letters at midnight. If a fair dinkum word bounces, that's a gap in our dictionary, not a mark against you.

Six balls drop out of the barrel. Combine them with + − × ÷ to hit the jackpot number.

Tap a ball, an operation, then another ball, the result becomes a new ball. Whole numbers only, no negatives. You don't have to use every ball, and spare balls earn bonus points.

Every board is machine-made and solver-certified hittable, there's always a path. Stuck? "Show a path" reveals one, no points but no shame.