✕

The loop closes

⚔️ Challenge a friend

What should we call you?

Your rivals see this next to your time. Nothing else, and no account needed.

Save and play → Stay anonymous

Peek at the giveaway?

Then this loop won't count toward your streak. Your streak survives if you close any other loop today without a clue — try the archive.

Show me the clue Never mind, I'll keep going

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Throw down the gauntlet

Nobody needs to be free at the same time. You set a time, they beat it whenever they get round to it.

1. You solve the loop on your own, with a clock running.
2. Close it and you get a link. Send that to whoever you want to beat.
3. They open it whenever suits them, solve the same loop, and race your recorded time. Fastest takes the crown 👑.

⚔️ Duel this loop 📅 Duel today's loop 🎲 Duel a random past loop Never mind, back to the game

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You've been challenged

A rival has thrown down the gauntlet.

They already played and went away. You're racing their recorded time, not a live opponent, so there's nobody waiting on you. Take as long as you like getting comfortable, then start your own clock.

Accept the duel → Not now, just play today's loop

⚔️ Send the rematch See my loop →

“hi. i'm ora. i eat my own tail. it's fine, it's a whole thing.”

Welcome to the loop

Four words coil around one loop. Solve all four to close it.

Solved loop · read clockwise ↻

• Each word's last letter starts the next, and they share the gold corner tiles.
• Guess each word: green = right spot, gold = right letter wrong spot, red = not in this word.
• Start at side 1. The clues get harder as you go round, so side 1 is close to a plain definition and sides 3 and 4 lean on wordplay.
• The loop spins ↻. Each side you pick turns to read along the top. Drag the board or tap the ↻ button to spin it yourself.
• ⚔️ Feeling brave? Tap the swords up top to duel a friend. They solve the same loop whenever they like and race your time, so nobody has to be free at once.

Start playing → See the full rules →

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“ok. ora is impressed. reluctantly.”

That's two loops closed

Right now all of this lives in this one browser. Clear it, or pick up your phone instead, and it's gone.

• Your streak survives a new phone, a cleared browser, anything.
• You turn up on the leaderboard instead of as another anonymous time.
• Ora emails you the one day your streak is about to break. Only that day, and you can switch it off in one tap.

Put me on the leaderboard. Your name and your time, on loops you solved without a giveaway clue. Switch it off any time in your profile.

The loops you've already closed come with you.

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