Raddle

What is Raddle?

Raddle is a daily word-transformation puzzle that asks players to turn one word into another through a ladder of clues. Each clue nudges the current word into a new one using letter changes, anagrams, dropped letters, or other wordplay. It is web-based and presented by The Mystery League.

Editor takes

The backward ladder from OFF to BASE is a tidy conceit, but the clues lean soft—where's the trick that forces real wordplay?

Nice little break: you can nibble one rung at a time, and the baseball theme makes it feel like a cozy snack between innings.

I'd love a per-clue solve-rate column—this ladder looks beatable, but I can't tell which rung is the real out unless I see the splits.

The rhyming soup clue is the kind of cheeky, sound-aware wordplay I'd underline twice, and the baseball theme gives the ladder a nice curve.

How to play Raddle

The game gives you a starting word and an ending word, with a vertical ladder between them. Work through the clues to find each intermediate word, using the current word plus the clue's instruction to get to the next step. If you get stuck, the site offers options such as showing the full ladder or switching the solving direction.

Tips & strategy

• Read each clue as a mini wordplay puzzle: it may ask you to add, remove, change, or anagram letters of the current word.
• Keep the daily theme in mind, since the theme often connects all the answers.
• For clues that read like 'X is a ____ app' or 'University found at the end of X,' think of phrases or compound words that contain the current word.
• If a clue mentions a homophone ('sounds like'), say the current word aloud and look for a phrase that matches the sound.
• Use the ladder display to track your progress; a later step may help if an earlier clue is ambiguous.

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Where to play

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