A daily civics puzzle

Guess the term.
Master the concept.

Six guesses. One political-science term per day. The familiar green, yellow, and gray tile feedback — and an educational card at the end that turns a solved word into something you actually remember.

Every day at 12:00 ET·6 guesses · 5 minutes
Today's grid

Open today's grid.

The board loads on its own page so your guess rows stick across reloads. Six guesses, variable length, one term per day — and an educational card at the end.

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How it plays

Three steps from blank grid to learned term.

Built around the familiar tile game you already know — every solved word reveals a study-grade explainer.

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Open today’s puzzle

A political-science, government, or pre-law term — variable length, six guesses, ~5 minutes.

Everyday 12:00 ET
02

Read the tile feedback

Green marks a letter locked in the right place. Yellow swaps position. Gray rules the letter out. Use the field to narrow the answer.

Green · Yellow · Gray
03

Unlock the educational card

Every solved puzzle reveals a definition, historical context, opposing concepts, key cases or treaties, and exam questions. The word is remembered.

Definition · Context · Cases · Qs
Gamemodes

Six ways to play — orbiting the daily puzzle.

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Today's grid

Daily

One term per day · shared with everyone

A new term drops every day at noon. Six guesses. The same puzzle for every player — share your result in tiles.

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Mode

Practice

Unlimited rounds, no streak at risk

Drill thousands of tagged terms at your own pace. Filter by subject, skip a day, repeat the hard ones.

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Timed Sprint

60 seconds, three puzzles, ranked

How many terms can you lock down in a minute? Daily and all-time leaderboards for each subject.

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Survival

One wrong letter ends the run

No gray feedback. Almost-correct guesses are punished. How long can your streak survive?

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Weekly Challenge

A themed 7-pack every Monday

Supreme Court, NATO, the Cold War, the U.S. Constitution, the United Nations, and a rotating bench of themed weeks.

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Exam Packs

Aligned study sets, unlimited retry

AP U.S. Government, AP Comparative Government, undergraduate political science, and LSAT — vocab in the format your course tests on.

The reveal

A solved word always ends in something remembered.

Every puzzle resolves into an educational card — definition, opposing concepts, key case or treaty, and one exam-style question. The vocabulary stays put long after the streak counter resets.

Solved · 3 guesses
IR · Difficulty 3/5
Deterrence
Discouraging an adversary from a contemplated action by credibly threatening a worse response — central doctrine of nuclear strategy between superpowers and a recurring theme in alliance politics (NATO Article 5 debates).

Opposing concepts

Appeasement · Compellence · Spiral-model escalation

Key cases / treaties

Cuban Missile Crisis · INF Treaty · Schelling, Arms and Influence

Exam question

Distinguish deterrence from compellence and give one historical example of each.

Famous scholars

Thomas Schelling · Robert Jervis · Herman Kahn

Built for

Four audiences, one habit.

The same daily grid works for a sophomore, a classroom projector, an LSAT candidate squeezing in study minutes, and a curious adult whose morning word wants to teach something.

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AP & undergraduate students

Studying political science, government, international relations, or constitutional law? Five minutes a day keeps the vocabulary current without burning an hour on flashcards.

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Civics teachers

Run a low-cost classroom drill. Project the daily puzzle, let students submit guess rows on paper, then walk the educational card together. Zero setup.

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LSAT candidates

Vocabulary is a static study habit squeezed between reading passages. A five-minute tile-grinder fits between Pomodoros and turns idle minutes into retention.

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Curious adults

You already do the morning word. Make this one teach you something — federalism, deterrence, proportionality, extradition — without an essay in your inbox.

FAQ

Quick answers.

Today's grid

Your morning word can teach you the constitution.

One drop a day, six guesses, an educational card at the end. No essays, no email signup — just the vocab of political science, government, IR, and pre-law, on your schedule.