The Telegraph PlusWord: The fantastic new puzzle for Word-game and Crossword fans alike!

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Sam I Am dislikes the word "deplane": “If you don't want to say ‘disembark’, then just say ‘get off the plane’. This game is simple to play and consists of a miniature version of our Quick Crossword with colored squares; the letters in those shaded squares allow you to calculate the additional five-letter Plus Word. Nothing – not a run, not a shower, not breakfast, not work, not even speaking – can happen until that thing is completed. It's not a precise science, but the general aim is that, in common with other Telegraph puzzles such as our Cryptic Crossword, PlusWord generally gets more difficult throughout the working week, and slightly easier again on Saturday and Sunday.

A green square indicates that the letter in that square is in the correct position in the mystery word, while a yellow square indicates that the letter is in the mystery word but in a different position.

Besides, the Wordle bank will probably contain a fair amount of US spellings such as ARMOR or FIBER, which would cause a revolution if we used these in a British puzzle! Time-Based Challenges: Timed challenges pit you against the clock, adding an exciting element of urgency to the gameplay. Simply tap on the date of the puzzle you are playing currently and all the solutions will be presented to you. There are only so many five-letter words, and so it helps to avoid using the same old answers on a very regular basis. Letters and blanks are always picked randomly, and the computer's artificial intelligence does not have more information than you do.

We check the PlusWords against Chambers Dictionary and against an electronic word-finding tool, so, while it's always possible that we might miss something (we are only human, after all), we are as confident as we can be that there is only one answer.I do this, then calm down, then fall asleep again and repeat the process every 15 minutes for an hour. It's a mix of things that makes a puzzle trickier or easier than the average: whether any answers in the crossword grid are out of the ordinary, the actual PlusWord (words with two or three letters the same are generally more difficult to work out), and the number of shaded cells in the grid.

The game has gained popularity among word puzzle enthusiasts, who enjoy the challenge of guessing the mystery word using a limited number of guesses. The plus-minus symbol ± (also known as plus or minus sign) is placed in front of an expression and means that the following value can be either positive or negative, more or less.

Some of the latest puzzles of Plusword are published and displayed below, starting from the latest one. This is a daily game that can be played once a day in today´s challenge mode or you can play you can play as many times as you want in infinite wordplus mode. Our resident PlusWord addict, Guy Kelly, wrote in December: “Allow me to tell you about my morning, every morning. virgojellycat actively stays up in anticipation of the next puzzle: “Me and my boyfriend always do it together as soon as the new one comes out (if he’s managed to stay awake!

Ron Lewis can’t abide the word “gobsmacked”, while Terrence Rattigan claims that the phrase “bucket list” is “enough to stimulate anti-peristalsis”. And then, in the quiet of the house, caffeinating by the second, I settle on a sofa to do the PlusWord.

Having said that, it's definitely the case that difficulty is in the eye of the beholder (or, more accurately, in the eye of the solver). After compiling, each PlusWord puzzle is carefully solved and checked by two other members of our team. FormulaDriven says, “I start my day with PW, having done Wordle as a warm-up, sitting with a cup of tea at the laptop. The game’s initial concept emerged nearly two decades ago, in the form of a cryptic crossword puzzle compiled for some friends, in which a group of cells in the middle of the grid acted as an additional puzzle in which a series of colored cells led to a Wordle-style challenge. Plus sign (+): This plus sign indicates that a letter you guessed is in the correct position in the target word.