Redacted

Redacted gives you an article from the Caldmere Gazette with five words blacked out, and nothing else. The black bars are the exact width of the missing word, so the number of letters is provided up front and all the work is about meaning. One case fits in a hotel brief: decorative nautical charts found in a storage room, a director who refuses to name the employee responsible. A tiny news item whose real subject is what you are not allowed to read.

1. Tap a black bar to choose the word you're working on.
2. Type your suggestion on the on‑screen keyboard and confirm. The width of the bar gives the number of letters.
3. Continue until all five words are found: the case only closes when they are all recovered.
4. Two escape routes flank the counter: a “Skip →” link under the article and a USE TIP button above the keyboard.

Because it's a word game that understood context is a better clue than color. No green squares, no feedback, just a local news article with five holes and a syntax that tells you what must fit: a plural noun, a past‑tense verb, an adjective of administrative procedure. The bet is that careful reading replaces groping, and it pays off. The setting helps: the game places all its cases in Caldmere and presents itself as a piece of a larger universe, so filling the gaps amounts to reconstructing a town from fragments of its paper.

The guess counter is the only permanent feedback: six at the start, displayed in words above the keyboard, next to five key glyphs attached to the USE TIP button. The clue comes from the sentence itself: the syntax around the gap, the expected grammatical function and the newspaper's register do the work that colored boxes would elsewhere.

Case of the Day

A dated article from the Caldmere Gazette, the same for everyone.

CASE ARCHIVE

An item in the top bar leading to past cases.

LEADERBOARD and STATS

Two items in the top bar, with a login option offered alongside.

• The word length is given before any thought. Counting letters before hunting for meaning eliminates half the candidates in a second.
• The text is written like a local news brief, with its stock phrases: a job title, an administrative turn of phrase, a quoted line. The paper's register is often more useful than the single most precise word.
• The five gaps belong to the same article, so they are not independent. A word found at the end changes what is plausible at the beginning, and the “Skip →” link exists precisely to address the gaps in whatever order suits you.
• Six guesses for five words leaves only one mistake. It's better to start with the most constrained gap, the one the sentence almost forces, than with the most intriguing.