The daily spelling game
Tafilo — the round of the day
Every morning, a fresh short text hides a handful of spelling mistakes. Your job is to find them. One round a day, the same one for everybody, read aloud. Five minutes, and no account needed to play.
How it works
The whole thing fits in one sentence: you read the text, you tap the words that look misspelt, then you submit. Nothing to type, nothing to install.
- Listen first. The text is read aloud exactly as written — mistakes included. Comparing what you read with what you hear often makes the trap jump out.
- Mark the mistakes. One tap flags a word, a second unflags it. The total number of mistakes is never shown while you play: the judgement is yours.
- Submit and understand. The result lists what you found, what you missed, and the words you flagged wrongly. Every mistake comes with the rule that explains it.
The score runs from 0 to 10 and penalises over-flagging: tapping every word gives you zero. That is what keeps the round honest, and the daily leaderboard with it.
Why one round a day
Keeping your spelling sharp shouldn't feel like homework. We wanted a short fixed appointment, like the morning crossword: one text, a few traps, one rule learned, and back again tomorrow. Everyone playing the same round on the same day changes everything — you compare results, you argue the borderline cases in the comments, and now and then a player gets us to change a marking.
The game is built first for adults who like words: large type, strong contrast, no notifications, and no account to create before playing the round of the day.
Our other daily fixtures
- The Trap — one sentence, two spellings, ten seconds to decide. Free, no account needed.
- Numbers — six tiles and a target to reach with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. A members-only game.
- Mystery Word — a word to find in six tries, with the first letter given. A members-only game.
The latest rounds in our archive
Every past round stays readable: the text appears in its corrected spelling, followed by an explanation of each of its traps. It is the best way to revisit a rule after the fact.
- A mail carrier on a snowy route
- Lighthouse
- A neighborhood diner at breakfast
- A lighthouse keeper on the northern coast
- The slow work of restoring a mural
- The history of a town square
- The last day of summer camp
- The first frost in a backyard garden
Common questions
Do I have to pay?
No. The round of the day and The Trap are free for everybody, every day, with no account required. Membership is optional: it opens the archive, unlimited practice, detailed statistics and the members-only games. You can play for years without ever paying.
Do I need to install an app?
No, the game runs straight in the browser, on computer, tablet and phone.
Where do the texts come from, and who checks the mistakes?
The texts are written for the game, on a theme, and the mistakes we plant are the ones people really make. Each round is then read again by several independent checks and finally by hand. Spellings that are legitimately different on either side of the Atlantic — colour and color, travelled and traveled — are never marked wrong.
What if I think a marking is wrong?
Write to us. We look again, we settle it by citing a source, and when a player is right we change the marking and recompute the scores.