Second chances

By Rose · September 22, 2026

A hand-drawn circular 'I VOTED' sticker showing a howling werewolf in a shredded blue shirt, its arms outstretched, standing in front of an American flag — The winning entry of Michigan’s “I voted” 2024 sticker contest – Unhinged werewolf story

You don’t need the TongueTied team to tell you about democracy’s discontents, but the results of our most recent player poll, about whether to offer more time to solve the Daily, are arguably even less definitive than the 2000 U.S. presidential elections – and we haven’t got a Supreme Court to tip the scales:

A pie chart of the player poll results: 50% chose 'Give us more time if we want it – but only credit us for what we finish in under a minute', 25% chose 'Keep the 60-second limit as is', and 25% chose 'Let us make it to Polyglot even if it takes 23 hours, 59 seconds!'

Although, actually, we do: us founders. We avoid majority rule in favor of consensus-based decision making, which is how we landed at a feature released early last week that should please half of you and leave the other half mildly stewing (or maybe you’ll come round to it).

Which is all to say: Players of the Daily can now opt to keep working on words after their 60 seconds have run up. And we offer hints on request.

A TongueTied Daily round in Nederlands for a pretzel emoji, with the letter tiles K, R, A, K, E, N, G, I, L — the first four padlocked as revealed hints

Seems unfair to claim you’ve solved a word under these new conditions? We think so, which is why the scorecards have become more granular: Green squares shows you solved the word in the language indicated, grey that you didn’t, and yellow that you solved it in extra time. Whether you’ve used clues in the process is between you and your maker.

A shareable TongueTied Daily #75 scorecard: green tiles for DE, EN, NL and DA, a yellow tile for FR, and a grey tile for IT, above a Share button

We hope a resounding majority of you enjoy the new feature, and we welcome feedback either way. Happy unscrambling, thanks for your votes, and for those of you who are Americans abroad, don’t forget to request your ballots for the November midterms. (And given international shipping times, pronto!)

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