Ten word origin questions, easy to expert, 20 seconds each, and one life. Answer until you miss; every question you clear is a point. The clock starts when you do.
About Origin
Origin is a free daily word origins quiz from Mind Loft. Ten multiple-choice questions climb from ones anyone can answer to ones almost nobody can, and a single wrong answer ends the run. Your score is simply how many you cleared in a row, which makes every question a small act of nerve: the further you get, the more you have to lose.
Everyone plays the same ten questions in the same order each day, so the daily leaderboard is a straight fight: longest run wins, and ties break by time. Twenty seconds a question keeps it honest. Every round asks the same two lanes, where a word comes from, then words named after people and places, so a run rewards an all-round ear for English rather than one trick. Every origin is the one the major etymological dictionaries accept, never a popular story they reject.
A new ten drops every day at midnight Eastern. No app, no signup, play free in your browser, keep a streak, and race the daily leaderboard. The other four in the English Gauntlet: Gram, Vocab, Spell, and Idiom.
Origin, in short
How do you play Origin?
Ten word origin questions climb from gimme to expert in five rounds of two: where a word comes from, then the people and places words are named after. One wrong answer or an empty clock ends the run.
Is Origin free to play?
Yes. Origin is free to play in your browser on Mind Loft, with no app to install and no account required.
When does a new Origin puzzle come out?
A new Origin arrives every day at midnight Eastern time.
What kind of puzzle is Origin?
Origin is a daily word game from Mind Loft: word origins, one life. Puzzle type: word origins quiz. It is part of the daily word games lineup.
Can I play past Origin puzzles?
Yes. Every past Origin board is in the puzzle archive, a tap away by day.
What other daily word games does Mind Loft have?
Idiom, Scour, Links and Stet, among others. The Word games page lists every one, with a new board for each every day.