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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Monday. Clocks shift in plenty of places this month. Midnight UTC doesn't, so today's sixteen words arrived on the same schedule as every other day, and they will turn over on it tonight. Four quiet kinships until then. commonground.games

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Common Ground — Daily international word puzzle

Sort sixteen words into four quiet kinships. A daily word puzzle that works in any country — no US-only categories required.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

After five wrong guesses, a small button appears offering the solution. Using it isn't losing. It is an ending, and we would rather you reached one than closed the tab halfway through. Tomorrow's sixteen words start you fresh either way.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Every Common Ground puzzle has to contain at least one word that plausibly belongs in two groups. Not tolerated, required. Four tidy piles with nothing pulling between them solve themselves on the first read, and a grid like that goes back for another pass.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Common Ground makes one puzzle a day and then stops. Sixteen words, four quiet kinships, no second mode to unlock and nothing stacked up behind it. When you finish today's, there is nothing else here asking for your attention. commonground.games

commonground.games

Common Ground — Daily international word puzzle

Sort sixteen words into four quiet kinships. A daily word puzzle that works in any country — no US-only categories required.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When a reply tells us a word only means that where you live, it goes on a list. The list runs against every tile of every future puzzle before it can ship, so it cannot quietly come back. That is a large part of what the reply threads are for.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Monday. The same sixteen words are waiting for everyone who opens Common Ground today, in every time zone, until midnight UTC turns them over. Four quiet kinships, wherever you're reading this from. commonground.games

commonground.games

Common Ground — Daily international word puzzle

Sort sixteen words into four quiet kinships. A daily word puzzle that works in any country — no US-only categories required.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A quiet thing Common Ground does: try a combination you have already tried and it doesn't count it against you. It just says you have been here before. The tally is for new mistakes, not for going round the same four twice.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A grid that can be sorted two different ways isn't hard, it's broken. So before a puzzle ships, every word that could sit in two groups gets walked through both. Exactly one arrangement may close all four kinships. If two do, we rewrite it.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Monday. The puzzle doesn't know that. It's the same sixteen words it would have been on any other day, waiting since midnight UTC for whoever opens it first. Four quiet kinships, then the week can have you. commonground.games

commonground.games

Common Ground — Daily international word puzzle

Sort sixteen words into four quiet kinships. A daily word puzzle that works in any country — no US-only categories required.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Guess four in Common Ground and get it wrong, and if three of them did belong together, the puzzle says so. Not which three. Just that you were close.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Monday, and September. Whatever the week is asking of you, sixteen words will wait until you have five quiet minutes for them. Four kinships, a new puzzle at midnight UTC, no cultural homework. commonground.games

commonground.games

Common Ground — Daily international word puzzle

Sort sixteen words into four quiet kinships. A daily word puzzle that works in any country — no US-only categories required.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

There's no way to lose a Common Ground puzzle. No lives to run out, no third strike that ends it. A wrong guess marks the tally and the grid waits for you to try again. The only way it ends unfinished is if you decide to stop.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Sixteen words that look like noise at first. The way in is the group you're surest of. Lock those four and the other twelve get quieter. You don't need to see all four kinships at once. Just the one you trust. commonground.games

commonground.games

Common Ground — Daily international word puzzle

Sort sixteen words into four quiet kinships. A daily word puzzle that works in any country — no US-only categories required.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Monday, and the light is starting to change. Seven new Common Ground puzzles this week, one at midnight UTC each day. Sixteen words, four quiet kinships, no cultural homework. Same as ever. commonground.games

commonground.games

Common Ground — Daily international word puzzle

Sort sixteen words into four quiet kinships. A daily word puzzle that works in any country — no US-only categories required.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Miss a day and the streak isn't gone yet. Yesterday's puzzle is still in your history, and finishing it before midnight UTC tonight stitches the run back together. One day of grace: yesterday only. We'd rather you came back than started over.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

One hundred Common Ground puzzles, one hundred days, no gaps since 19 May. Sixteen words, four quiet kinships, then on with your day. Thank you to everyone who has played, and especially to those who reply. Your guesses are quietly making the next hundred better. commonground.games

commonground.games

Common Ground — Daily international word puzzle

Sort sixteen words into four quiet kinships. A daily word puzzle that works in any country — no US-only categories required.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

That's the exact relationship we were hoping for. (0098 was a brute, for what it's worth — you're in good company today.)

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Common Ground keeps your place. Close the tab halfway through, go to a meeting, come back after lunch — the grid is exactly where you left it, guesses and all. Sixteen words are very patient. Nothing is lost by stopping.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A gentle thing about a wrong guess in Common Ground: it isn't a dead end. It's the puzzle showing you two words you were sure belonged together, and quietly asking you to look again. The near-misses are where it gets interesting.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Monday's in no hurry, and neither is the puzzle. Sixteen words, four quiet kinships, a cup of something warm — and no inbox waiting on the other side of it. Take the long way through today's. commonground.games

commonground.games

Common Ground — Daily international word puzzle

Sort sixteen words into four quiet kinships. A daily word puzzle that works in any country — no US-only categories required.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Some days the kinships hide. A group won't come, the overlaps won't settle, and you sit there longer than you meant to. That isn't you failing the puzzle — some days are built to be quiet and stubborn. The hard ones are the good ones.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The grid you share from Common Ground gives nothing away — no words, no answers, just the shape of how your morning went. Safe to post before anyone else has played. A spoiler-free brag is kind of the point. commonground.games

commonground.games

Common Ground — Daily international word puzzle

Sort sixteen words into four quiet kinships. A daily word puzzle that works in any country — no US-only categories required.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Something Common Ground doesn't have: a timer. No clock counting down, no speed bonus, no penalty for taking your time. Sixteen words will wait as long as you need them to. Sit with the hard group. There's no rush in here.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A small quiet thing about Common Ground: the last two weeks of puzzles are still there. Tap a day you missed on the calendar and it opens the way you'd have found it that morning. You haven't fallen behind. There's no behind. commonground.games

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A note about this account: it isn't a broadcast megaphone. We read the reply threads — every one. Even the ones that are just a grid without words. We can't always reply back, but the threads are how we quietly learn where a puzzle landed.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A quiet admission: Common Ground is still being shaped. Next week's puzzles get gently reworked by this week's wrong guesses, paused kinships, and reply threads. Thank you for being the players the game is quietly learning from.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If Common Ground has quietly settled into your morning, there's probably one person in your life who'd sit down with sixteen words too. Not everyone — just one. Pass it on if they come to mind. commonground.games

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Monday morning. Before the inbox, before the calendar, before whatever the week's got planned — sixteen words and four quiet kinships. A five-minute breather, then you can start. commonground.games

commonground.games

Common Ground — Daily international word puzzle

Sort sixteen words into four quiet kinships. A daily word puzzle that works in any country — no US-only categories required.

011

Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

We do track a streak in Common Ground — it lives in the history modal, next to the calendar. That's the only place it lives. No pop-up, no badge, no nudge if you miss a day. If it's useful to you, it's there. If not, you don't have to look.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A quiet thank-you to everyone playing Common Ground. To the coffee openers, to the 4pm Wednesday openers, to the ones who quietly go back into the history on a Sunday morning — we notice, and we're grateful.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Common Ground is sixteen words a day. No accounts, no leaderboard, nothing to install. A few quiet minutes, four kinships, then it lets you get on with your day. commonground.games

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

An internal rule we keep returning to: a kinship we’ve used once doesn’t come back. The hundredth puzzle should still surprise the people who played the first. Easier to say than to write! commonground.games

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Monday. Somewhere, someone is opening Common Ground with their first coffee. Somewhere else, last thing before bed. Same sixteen words. Same four quiet kinships. Midnight UTC, every day. commonground.games

commonground.games

Common Ground — Daily international word puzzle

Sort sixteen words into four quiet kinships. A daily word puzzle that works in any country — no US-only categories required.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The Clay tier is the kinship you have to commit to. You can see the shape, but it could mean two things. Pick one, commit, and the rest of the grid either falls into place or politely tells you to try again. commonground.games

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

This is a genuinely nice bit of feedback to receive — thank you. The "haha deal with it" complaint is fair, and it's the exact tension we're calibrating: enough overlap that the wordplay group feels earned, not so much that it feels arbitrary. Best wishes back — and thanks for the thoughtful note. 🙏

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Monday again. Midnight UTC has come and gone; today’s Common Ground is waiting. Sixteen words, four quiet kinships, no homework. Yesterday’s still there in the history if you want it. commonground.games

commonground.games

Common Ground — Daily international word puzzle

Sort sixteen words into four quiet kinships. A daily word puzzle that works in any country — no US-only categories required.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Thank you, that's genuinely lovely — especially the recommend. We aim for misdirection over obscurity, so 'trickier' is the read we hoped for.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Friday reflection: the satisfying bit of a Common Ground puzzle isn’t getting the easy kinship — it’s the moment you realise the word you confidently slotted in Sage actually belongs in Mist. The hush before everything rearranges. commonground.games

commonground.games

Common Ground — Daily international word puzzle

Sort sixteen words into four quiet kinships. A daily word puzzle that works in any country — no US-only categories required.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This is genuinely useful — thank you for the specifics. The pastel palette is a deliberate editorial call so leaving that. But the in-play italic messages ARE too small and too brief on a phone (13px italic on pale grey). Going on the fix list. Cheers.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

A small rule for Common Ground: no answer should make you Google a US sitcom or a regional snack you've never heard of. The puzzle works the same in Sheffield, Singapore, or São Paulo. That's the whole point. commonground.games

commonground.games

Common Ground — Daily international word puzzle

Sort sixteen words into four quiet kinships. A daily word puzzle that works in any country — no US-only categories required.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Question for anyone playing Common Ground: which tier surprised you most this week — the Sage, the Mist, the Clay, or the Stone? Reply with the day (no spoilers). We read every reply.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Yesterday's Stone tier was a quiet bit of wordplay — three of its words had already settled into three earlier kinships before you saw the fourth. Today's is waiting. commonground.games

commonground.games

Common Ground — Daily international word puzzle

Sort sixteen words into four quiet kinships. A daily word puzzle that works in any country — no US-only categories required.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

"Frustrating but not a fault" is exactly the calibration we want, thank you. The tiles are all the same size; the word's font auto-shrinks to fit, so longer words look smaller. Pure layout, not a clue — though if it reads as a hint that's useful to know.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

"Grumble grumble" noted. Curious whether the ▲/■ tangle was satisfying-frustrating (good puzzle workout) or just annoying-frustrating (felt unfair). Either answer is gold — we're actively calibrating how hard the overlaps should feel.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Sage. Mist. Clay. Stone. The four tiers of every Common Ground puzzle, easiest to trickiest. We named them after quiet, settled things on purpose. The Stone tier is the one that makes you sit up. commonground.games

commonground.games

Common Ground — Daily international word puzzle

Sort sixteen words into four quiet kinships. A daily word puzzle that works in any country — no US-only categories required.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Common Ground is in its early days. We're still calibrating — some puzzles will feel quick, others stubborn, and we're learning from both. Thank you to everyone who has played, and especially to those who reply. We read every one. commonground.games

commonground.games

Common Ground — Daily international word puzzle

Sort sixteen words into four quiet kinships. A daily word puzzle that works in any country — no US-only categories required.

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Common Ground @common-ground-game.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

We didn't want to call them "categories". A category sounds like a filing cabinet. A kinship is what these four things quietly share — sometimes obvious, sometimes a hush you have to listen for. Today's puzzle has four kinships. commonground.games

commonground.games

Common Ground — Daily international word puzzle

Sort sixteen words into four quiet kinships. A daily word puzzle that works in any country — no US-only categories required.

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