Rung a Day
Sprint best 0

Ninety seconds.
As many ladders as you can.

Same rules as the daily puzzle, no hints, no undo. Every ladder you finish is one point. Skip anything that stalls you — the clock does not care.

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About the sprint

The daily puzzle is a single board you live with for a day. The sprint is the opposite: ninety seconds, a fresh ladder every time you finish one, and no way to undo a bad guess. The ladders come from the same pool of four-letter puzzles, so a sprint is winnable — it is speed, not luck.

Two habits help. Look at the goal before you type, because the last rung is often closer to the start than it looks. And skip early. A ladder you cannot see in ten seconds is a ladder worth abandoning; there are three hundred and sixty of them.