Four years ago, we declared that ingenious puzzle designer Zach Gage's Knotwords might dethrone Wordle as our favorite daily word puzzle game. Well, here I am making the same claim again in 2026: Gage and his collaborators at the puzzle site Puzzmo have a new game out today, called Ribbit. Ribbit has something Wordle is sorely lacking: Frogs.
Ribbit is an anagram game. It gives you a grid of letters that are connected together, some to multiple other letters and some to just one. From the jumbled letters you have to trace lines that form words of four or more letters, and as the letters are fully used up they'll disappear off the grid, turning into frogs. They are very cute.
For reasons I can't fathom the frogs don't actually ribbit each time they pop up on the puzzle board or when you click them, which almost feels like a betrayal of the game's name. But they remain a much more satisfying reward than a row of green squares, especially because they get all bouncy when you finish off the whole puzzle.
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