Midpoint: Word Between

Every five-letter word is lined up from A to Z, and one of them is today's word. You are not spelling it out — you are finding where it sits in that line. Each guess becomes an edge. Too early in the alphabet and it closes the gap from below; too late and it closes it from above. The answer is somewhere between the two, and the space left is yours to squeeze. • 14 guesses. The sooner you land it, the more trophies you keep — five at best, one at the last. • Letters that cannot start a word inside the gap go dark, so you never type into nothing. • A word that is not in the dictionary costs you nothing. • One word a day, the same word for everyone. When it ends, the two words you closed in on stay on screen with the answer between them, and a small chart shows how the gap fell away, move by move.