How to Check Today's Answer

How the answer is chosen and when it opens

Nobody hand-picks the answer each day. The 171 possible answers are shuffled into a fixed order, and each date takes the next one by its day number. So the answer is the same for everyone on a given day, and no word repeats until the full cycle of 171 days has passed. The shuffled order is not published, so you cannot work out tomorrow's word from the list.

Answer pages open only for days up to yesterday, using midnight Korean time as the cutoff. If you open today's answer page, you see a note that it unlocks after midnight and a button to today's puzzle instead of the answer. This keeps the answer hidden from people who have not played yet.

How to review with the answer page

• Read the definition first. If you knew the word, ask why it did not come to mind; if you did not, find the step where you dropped it from your candidates.
• Then look at the distribution. If most people solved it in three or four tries and you needed six, your guessing order — not luck — is where to improve.
• Finally, scan the related two-syllable words. They are other possible answers that share the answer's first syllable, and those already used link to that day's answer page. Grouping words by first syllable helps you recall candidates faster when a similar answer comes up.
• After reading the definition, make up one short sentence with the word. Remembering meaning and usage together means that when you open the definition hint after three misses, candidates come to mind from the meaning rather than the first syllable. Answer pages double as a handy vocabulary list for this.

Questions about answer pages

I missed yesterday's puzzle. Can I still play it?

Yes. Past words can be replayed from the replay screen for each date. Opening the answer page first gives the answer away, so play before you look if you plan to replay.

Are the definitions copied from a dictionary?

No. They are short definitions QuizLab rewrote from openly available information, with the source noted on the answer page. For a full definition, check a Korean dictionary.

If yesterday's answer was similar, is that a clue for today?

No. Answers are taken from the shuffled list in date order, so there is no link such as a shared first syllable or final between yesterday's word and today's. Yesterday's answer page is far more useful for reviewing your own solving habits than for guessing today's word.

Getting to the answer page

• Tap "Today's Answer" among the shortcut chips at the bottom of the daily puzzle to go to the most recently published answer page.
• If you know the date, add it as eight digits to the address. For example, the answer for 18 September 2026 is at /game/word/answer/20260918.
• In the related words section, words with a date link to the page for the day they were the answer, so you can review past answers in one sitting.
• When sharing with friends, use the share text from the result window rather than an answer page link. The share text contains no answer letters, so it spoils nothing for people who have not played.

How the stats are calculated

The distribution has seven bars: how many people solved it in one to six tries, plus how many never found it. The average is calculated from solved games only and rounded to one decimal place; failed games are left out of it. The solve rate is the share of all games solved within six tries, rounded to a whole percentage.

So a day with a low average but also a low solve rate was a hard word: those who got it got it fast, but many missed it. Conversely, an average above four with a high solve rate means the word took a while, yet most people found it in the end. Check the player count at the end of the summary line as well: on a day with only a few dozen records, a handful of results can swing the average and solve rate a lot, so compare days that have plenty of players.

Answer pages are rebuilt at most every ten minutes, so a game you just finished may not show up in the numbers straight away. For a date with no records yet, you see a note that there are no stats instead of the distribution chart.