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Happy Wednesday! As subscribers of this newsletter know, there's a secret theme connecting every element in today's Tightrope.

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Tightrope / DAILY TRIVIA GAME

JAY-Z watched which musical repeatedly in his youth, eventually sampling one of its songs for his hit “Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)”?

Rent

Annie

Les Misérables

West Side Story

Play Tightrope

Reunion / TODAY'S PUZZLE

The right words bring them together.

Play Reunion

Revealed / TODAY'S PUZZLE

Play Revealed

Quordle / TODAY'S SCORES

83%	SOLVE RATE
7.7	AVG. GUESSES

Can you beat Quordle?

Octordle / TODAY'S SCORES

82%	SOLVE RATE
11.4	AVG. GUESSES

Can you solve Octordle?

Blossom / TODAY'S PUZZLE

Pick your 12 best words!

	LEVEL Mild
10% OF PLAYERS	BLOSSOM BOSS 300+ PTS

60% OF PLAYERS	MEGA BOSS 350+ PTS

Beat Today's Blossom Scores

The Missing Letter / Wednesday

13 Across

"I trapped your king"

4 letters

Find Today's Missing Letter

Pilfer

Create words —
and steal them! —
before your opponents do.

Play Pilfer

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Putting true and true together

Happy Wednesday! As subscribers of this newsletter know, there's a secret theme connecting every element in today's Tightrope. If you know what it is, reply to this email and let us know!

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