Klimber

Klimber is the Ladder mode of Kinopy, a daily puzzle shaped like a plant. Each pair of tiles holds two words that differ by one letter. You link the pairs to grow the plant. A new Klimber daily grows at midnight in your own time zone.

The rule

The two words of a pair differ by one letter. The letter sits in the same place in both.

Each puzzle has two boards that share one seed. The seed sits on the soil line. The Rootlet grows down from it as roots. The Sapling grows up from it.

The Rootlet ends with the seed in plain view. The Sapling starts from the same seed, so it asks more of you.

The Sapling rule

The Sapling rule is wider. Each pair changes one letter, adds one letter or takes one letter away.

The Sapling also gives you one guess fewer. A Klimber Rootlet gives six guesses, and the Sapling gives five.

An example, step by step

Say the board holds the tile COLD.

• Look for a word that changes one letter of COLD in the same place. CORD changes the third letter. BOLD changes the first letter.
• Tap the line between COLD and CORD. The two tiles link.
• Tap the line between COLD and BOLD to link that pair too.
• Press Submit to check the board. After Submit, a right branch grows green. A wrong branch is cut.
• On the Sapling, COLD can also connect to OLD, which takes a letter away, and to SCOLD, which adds one.

Four tips

• Read the hint first. It is a line of words in the sky, and it points at the seed on the soil line. The hint is a play on words.
• On the Rootlet, look for words of the same length, since only one letter changes. On the Sapling, also try words one letter longer or shorter.
• Use Submit to learn. It checks every branch on the board. A wrong pair is cut and stays marked, so you do not try it twice.
• Move tiles to make room. Drag a tile onto another tile to swap them, or tap one tile and then another. Linked tiles swap together.

The name

Klimber comes from climber, a plant that grows up a support, such as a vine on a trellis. It rises one rung at a time.

In Klimber, each word climbs one step from the word before it, as on a word ladder. Klimber also spells climber with a K, as Kalyx and sKion do for calyx and scion.

Learn more

See how the moves work in How to play.

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