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Morning newsprint meets letterpress type. A 5×5 forme of blocks waits on the stone, and you set a word by dragging across touching blocks: sideways, up, down or diagonal. A red proof line marks the path. Caret · Setting a word Each block is used once per word, three letters or more, and Qu sets two letters. Three or four letters score 1, five score 2, six score 3, seven score 5, eight or more score 11. Finds fill two or three newspaper columns under the forme. Run on · Marathon An unbroken chain of formes, two minutes each. Reach the round target to file it and move to a slightly tougher sheet; the target climbs every round. Miss it and the run goes to print. The record keeps rounds and points. Transpose · Duel desk Face a desk rival on the same forme at three levels: Cub reporter, Desk editor and Chief editor. A word belongs to whoever sets it first, and a rival word of four letters or more can be lifted once. Your column and theirs stand side by side. Stet · The newsstand Thirty fixed editions, from Monday Bulletin and Harbour Gazette to Garden Supplement and beyond, each with three star marks and a clock of 150, 120 or 100 seconds. One star opens the next edition. Wrong fount · Type case Eight tile styles that come with play: Newsprint, Halftone, Wood type, Red ink, Carbon copy, Proof blue, Linotype slug and Night final. The chosen style is applied to the forme. Close up · Archive A table of your last 25 runs, duels and editions, with the strongest rows picked out in red and a summary of records above. Delete · Colophon A slow diagonal wave of halftone dots and drifting large type moves behind the front page. This animated background can be switched off in the Colophon settings, which also hold haptics, the rules and a progress reset. Plays offline, portrait or landscape, no account needed.