Looplink

Grouping all four categories — each one a set of four words — before you run out of mistakes. Solving all four closes the loop.

Four of the twelve tiles are links — a word that belongs to two neighbouring groups at once (that’s why there are 12 tiles, not 16). A link sits on the joint between its two groups in the ring.

A link only reveals itself once both of its groups are solved — then it splits into both colours. With only one group solved it looks like an ordinary solved tile, so finding one group never gives away which tiles are the links.

Each group’s colour marks its difficulty: yellow is easiest, then green, then blue, then purple (hardest).

Four. A wrong group of four costs one. Re-submitting a group you’ve already found or already guessed doesn’t cost a mistake.

Yes — everyone gets the same daily Looplink. A new one is printed every day at midnight Eastern.