PHRAZZMATAZZ

Left to right, top to bottom, wrapping onto the next line — exactly the way you are reading this. Phrases run along that line with the spaces taken out, and can wrap around the end of a row mid-word.

There is no padding. Every single cell belongs either to a hidden phrase or to the Matazz, so nothing you find is wasted.

All tied to today's theme, which is shown at the top of the screen. That much you get for free.

One more phrase, its words scattered in order through the gaps between the others. It says what today's puzzle is really about, and nobody tells you what it is. It owns the color blue — nothing else on the board is ever blue.

Turns over every copy of it on the board at once.

Turns over that word everywhere it appears.

Counts for what it covers. You do not have to produce a whole phrase to be paid for the part you know.

Count too. Guess THE and you will light the one hiding inside FEATHERS, as well as the real one.

When a revealed tile is the first or last letter of a phrase, a small arrow points into the rest of it. Collect a few and the board starts telling you where things begin and end.

Letters stay black while their phrase is unfinished. The instant a phrase is complete, it snaps to its own color.

Solid means untouched. Outlined means you have seen that letter but copies are still hidden. Faded means every one is up, and guessing it costs nothing.

Turn over every phrase and the Matazz.

Run out of Pizzazz. You start with 16, and guessing costs. Anything you already knew is always free.

Appears beside your Pizzazz when you are down to four or fewer. Two more wrong swings and it is over.

You crack the Matazz The hidden phrase nobody told you about. Naturally it pays the most.

You finish a whole phrase The board coughs up a little something. It can afford it.

You guess a word that is nowhere on the board The house charges rent on wishful thinking.

You guess a letter that isn't there at all Same offense, fewer letters. Slightly cheaper to feel silly.

You buy a letter that is on the board Information costs. This isn't a hint, it's a purchase.

You land a fragment but not a word Those letters do run together somewhere. They just don't spell anything here. Half marks.

You land an actual word Costs nothing, ever. Knowing things is the one thing we don't tax.

Anything you already knew Repeats, a letter you'd already seen inside a word, a word you'd already found. You are never charged twice for the same fact.

A red heart starts beating at 4 or below It is not decoration and it is not a life. It is the meter telling you that two more wrong swings end this, so the next guess had better be one you believe in.