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Cladder

Cladder

Cladder turns the calm Wordle rhythm into a sprint. You get sixty seconds, ten short clues, and a chain of four letter words where each answer differs from the last by a single letter. A clue might point you from GAME toward FAME with one swap. Solve it, and that word becomes the footing for the next rung.

Wrong guesses do not end your turn. You can keep typing until the match lands. Two skips are available if a clue stalls, though each one shaves five seconds off the clock. One full ladder refreshes every day at midnight.

How to Play Cladder

1
Cladder puzzle showing a clue and four letter seed word

Read the clue and study the seed word

Ten clues sit between you and the finish line. The timer starts when the puzzle loads, so read quickly. The clue describes the target word in plain language while the grid shows what you are building from.

Only one letter may change between steps. Swapping two letters or adding a letter will not count.

2

Change one letter and submit

Think in single letter edits. If the board reads GAME and the clue hints at reputation, try FAME by replacing G with F.

Clue: a celebrity known for talent

The board shows GAME. Change exactly one letter to match the clue.

FAME swaps only the first letter. That answer becomes the base for the next clue in the ladder.

Press Enter after each attempt. A rejected guess costs nothing except time.

3

Clear all ten rungs before time runs out

The clock is always moving. Clearing clue five with twenty seconds left feels very different from arriving there with five seconds to spare.

  • Skips: two available per puzzle, five second penalty each
  • Wrong guesses: no score penalty, only lost time
  • Daily reset: a new ten clue ladder at midnight

A word ladder at puzzle speed

Traditional word ladders ask you to stroll from one word to another in many steps. Cladder compresses that idea into a timed relay. The clue tells you where to head, and the one letter rule tells you how you are allowed to get there. You are never hunting a mystery word from scratch. You are always one edit away from the solution if you read the hint correctly.

That structure rewards players who spot letter patterns fast. Once you see that a clue points toward a body part or a food item, you scan the current word for the single swap that opens the right door.

Managing sixty seconds across ten clues

Sixty seconds sounds generous until you are staring at clue seven with the clock in single digits. Easy rungs should take two or three seconds so the budget survives the harder ones. Hesitating on an early clue is expensive because the same timer covers the entire board.

Because wrong guesses are free, it is often faster to type a likely word than to stare at the grid. A quick miss costs a second. A long pause can cost the whole ladder.

When a skip is worth five seconds

Skips are best treated as emergency exits, not shortcuts on easy clues. Burning five seconds to escape a vague hint can still leave enough room to finish the tail of the ladder. Using both skips early usually leaves too little time for the final three words.

Save them for clues where the meaning is clear but the spelling fork is not. If you know the topic yet cannot see the letter swap, a skip beats grinding thirty seconds on one rung.

FAQs about Cladder

Cladder is a daily timed word ladder. You solve ten clues in sixty seconds by changing one letter from the previous four letter word to reach the next answer.
Each new answer must be exactly one letter different from the word before it. For example, GAME can become FAME by changing the first letter from G to F. All other letters stay in place.
Nothing is deducted from your score. You simply try again until the word is accepted. The only cost is the seconds ticking on the timer.
You get two skips per puzzle. Using a skip reveals or passes the current clue but removes five seconds from your remaining time.
Sixty seconds for all ten clues. Speed matters because the timer runs for the entire ladder, not per clue.
A new Cladder ladder goes live every day at midnight. Complete today's run before the reset to keep your streak alive.