Keyword
September 30, 2026Keyword is The Washington Post's daily word game: 6 words stand in columns, each with one letter missing, and the missing letters read across to make the keyword. Play it on the Washington Post.
Hint 1: how long the keyword is
- 6 letters, one from each column.
Hint 2: what it means
- Cheerful and optimistic.
Hint 3: the first letter
- It starts with U.
Each column's word
Tap a word to see it, so you can take one column and leave the rest.
- R_RAL column 1 RURAL
- HO_EFUL column 2 HOPEFUL
- PRO_ATION column 3 PROBATION
- LIM_LIGHT column 4 LIMELIGHT
- M_RBLE column 5 MARBLE
- EPI_OME column 6 EPITOME
Today's Keyword answer
Keyword hides a word across the columns. This one hides a headline.
One real news sentence a day, twenty to thirty words, something that actually happened. Keep the five words a headline would keep and let the rest go. Here is yesterday's, solved.
At Camden Lock, a 71-year-old woman, Beatrice Millar, took off her shoes, jumped in after a drowning man and saved him by holding his head above water.
Five tries. blue is the right word in the right place, orange is one of the five sitting somewhere else, grey is not one of them. The result beats the process, a name or a job beats a place, and the little words never count.
How you finish decides which sticker you keep.
