DETOUR

Detour, the daily word route

No. —
Closed
From
Stop 1
Stop 2
Stop 3
To

10 seconds a stop · 3 lives · new route at midnight

How to play

Get from the first word to the last word in exactly three stops.

  1. 1Each stop must link to the one before it: a meaning, a phrase, even wordplay. BEE → HONEY, FIRE → TRUCK, APPLE → RED.
  2. 2Your third stop must link to the last word too.
  3. 3You get 10 seconds a stop. The three closed words are roadblocks. Typing one, or running out of time, costs a life. You have three.

Example

FromSun
Stop 1Beach
Stop 2Sand
Stop 3Castle
ToKing

Link lights

Directthe link most people would make
Scenica clever or less obvious link
Wilda stretch, but it holds

A word that doesn't link costs no life, only time. A new train leaves every midnight.

Settings

20 seconds a stop instead of 10. Your result is marked ⏳ when shared.

Flap clacks, the arrival chime, buzzers.

Credits

Word links use ConceptNet Numberbatch and ConceptNet 5 (CC BY-SA 4.0, by Robyn Speer and the ConceptNet team), word frequencies from wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0), and WordNet (Princeton University). Our compressed word-link data is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Typeface: Barlow by Jeremy Tribby (OFL).

Detour keeps your streak and stats on this device only. No accounts, no tracking.