Booky

Booky is the daily romantasy word game published by 90books, a one-person site run by Olga Roman, a product designer who reads the genre and hand-picks every featured title herself. The grid is the familiar one: guess a five-letter word in six tries on an on-screen keyboard, with a new word unlocking at midnight. What differs is where the word comes from and where it leads. Every answer is a word hidden in a romantasy novel, so the pool leans on that shelf's own vocabulary, and the help panel teaches the colors with FATED, COURT and BLADE rather than with a neutral list. Solve the grid and the game names the book the word came from, cover and author included. A Booky Library collects every title featured so far, and romantasy authors can pay for a feature day, though the site states that paying never buys a good review.

1. Type a five-letter word on the keyboard displayed beneath the grid, then confirm with ENTER.
2. Read the tile colors, which tell for each letter whether it is correctly placed, present elsewhere in the word, or absent.
3. Build the next guess from what the previous row rules in and out, within the limit of six tries.
4. Open the hint panel if you are stuck: it reveals today's book behind a spoiler warning, and the title usually points at the word.
5. Solve the grid to see which romantasy novel the answer was hidden in, with its cover and a link to the book.
6. Copy the result to share it or post it in the daily thread, then watch the countdown for the next word.

Booky is for romantasy readers who want a reading list as much as a puzzle: the payoff for solving is a hand-picked novel, not a score. A round takes two or three minutes, and the hint panel will simply hand you today's book if you would rather browse than grind. Skip it if you want a demanding word game, because the answers are ordinary five-letter words and the genre lives in the reveal rather than in the difficulty. Skip it too if a recommendation engine funded by paid author feature days is not something you want in your daily puzzle.

Each submitted row is graded letter by letter and the squares change color. Purple means the letter is in the word and in the right spot, yellow means it is in the word but not in that spot, and grey means it is not in the word at all. The help panel teaches those three states with FATED, COURT and BLADE. A wrong guess costs one of the six rows and nothing more: no timer, no points, no penalty beyond the row you spent. The statistics panel keeps the running record, plays, win percentage, current and maximum streak, and the distribution of the rows your wins land on.

Daily puzzle

One word a day, five letters and six tries, played on the on-screen keyboard, with the next word unlocking at midnight and a countdown on the result screen. The daily grid is the whole game: there is no difficulty setting and no variant to choose. The other screens sit around it, a hint panel that reveals today's book, a statistics panel, and a share panel that copies your result or sends you to the daily results thread.

• The theme concerns the solution, not your guesses: a five-letter word with no connection to romantasy is accepted as a guess. You can therefore probe with your usual test words.
• Let the genre bias your shortlist once the grid narrows. The answer belongs to a romantasy novel, and the three words the help panel uses as examples, FATED, COURT and BLADE, are the register to think in.
• Purple and yellow do different work: purple locks a letter to its square, while yellow both confirms the letter and forbids the square you just tried it in. Move that letter elsewhere on the next row.
• The hint is free in the only currency the game keeps: seeing today's book leaves your streak and your statistics untouched, so it is worth opening before you burn the sixth row rather than after.
• Save your stats with an email address if the streak matters to you. It also switches on a daily reminder, and the statistics panel then tracks plays, win percentage, current and maximum streak, and your guess distribution.