Punnett Squareword

Four cards arranged in a square, each bearing a two-word expression to be found, and above each card two colored dots. That is the whole idea: a color stands for a word, and the same color appears on several cards. On the example grid, the two top cards shared the first dot, the bottom ones shared another, while each column shared the second. As a result, the four expressions intersect like a double-entry table: finding a word in one cell places half of another. The clue in parentheses defines the complete expression.

1. Read the four clues in parentheses, one per card.
2. Spot which colored dots repeat from one card to another: two cards that share a color share the corresponding word.
3. Write each answer in the field under its clue.
4. Validate everything with SUBMIT while watching the counter, which shows three attempts, and press HINT if the grid remains stuck.

Most definition games treat each question in isolation. Here the four answers are mechanically linked by a color code, and the grid behaves like a system of equations: two certainties are often enough to deduce the rest. With only three attempts for the whole puzzle, it's a game where you think a long time before touching the keyboard.

The page establishes the loop: you fill in, you submit, the game says whether it is correct, and the guess counter goes down. A HINT button is available below, and the transfer of a word from one card to another remains the main piece of feedback from the game, since a found answer immediately forces its neighbors of the same color.

Grille du jour

A single daily grid, numbered and dated at the top of the page, accompanied by a SHARE button and a link titled CONTRIBUTE.

• Start with the narrowest clue, not the first card. Since each found word propagates to the two cards that share its colored dot, a certainty is worth far more than an intuition.
• Test your candidates by cross-checking: a word that fits a clue but doesn't hold in any of the neighboring expressions of the same color is almost certainly wrong, even if it matches its definition perfectly.
• The rules show that the same colored dot can lead to very different expressions, with OUT LOUD on one side and YOU'RE OUT on the other. Don't lock a word to the meaning it has on the first card where it appears.