Slate has a new weekly puzzle called Soundbites

Slate’s New Puzzle “Soundbites” Turns Words Into Music for Your Brain

A new weekly puzzle from is challenging players to rethink how they understand language—not through spelling or grammar, but through sound itself.

Called Soundbites, the puzzle asks solvers to decode clues, collect phonetic pieces from each answer, and then combine those sounds to reveal a final mystery word. The twist? It’s not about how words are written. It’s about how they’re spoken.