PLAYS SHORT FUSEShort Fuse is a speed word game with no lives: a 2:30 fuse burns in real time while you hunt the five-letter word in ten rows. Every gray letter burns three extra seconds, and mined letters burn fifteen at once.
The fuse starts at 2:30 and burns in real time — hesitation costs as surely as wrong letters. When it reaches 0:00, or you run out of rows, the word is lost.
No — the clock is your only life. Standard word-guess clues apply (green direct hit, yellow in-the-word, gray miss), but time is the only resource you spend.
Every gray letter burns three extra seconds. Three letters of the alphabet are mined: playing one burns fifteen seconds and destroys the row's clues. Flag suspected mines with right-click, or long-press on touch screens.
Yes. The daily challenge deals the same word to every player worldwide and resets at midnight UTC. Your streak is saved on your device — no account needed.
Yes — fully. After your first visit the whole game is stored on your device and plays with no connection at all, airplane mode included. You can even install it from your browser menu and play it like an app. Free, no account, nothing locked behind a signal.