r/wordgames

Long Story Short, a daily word game where you rephrase a 12-word sentence in exactly 5 of its words
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Long Story Short, a daily word game where you rephrase a 12-word sentence in exactly 5 of its words

Hi, I made this one. I've played Wordle-likes for years and always wanted to build my own, but I never had an idea that felt like mine.

The push came from a strange place. Half of what I read these days is written by AI, and it's never short. Every email, every doc, twelve words where five would do. At some point I said the phrase out loud, long story short, and realised it was a game.

So: you get a twelve-word sentence. You rephrase it in exactly five of its own words. Real English, same meaning, your job is to work out which words carry the sentence and which are just dressed up to look important. Scoring is Wordle style, blue for right word in the right spot, orange for in the answer but elsewhere, grey for out. Five tries, one sentence a day.

My wife and my brother were the playtesters. An early version let "the" beat proper words in the answer, which felt awful to lose to, so the answers now always favour the concrete word. That one change ate a whole weekend.

sheets.works
u/Mastbubbles — 1 day ago
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8 Letter Words That Work With Hands Swapped?

Thinking about getting finger tats vertically on my lower knuckles (like Frank Iero has in the pic above), but I think it'd be cool if it spelt a different word when I swapped my hands around.

Using the pic above as an example, imagine if OBKOOWMR was a word. Does that make sense? I'm not sure the best way to explain it!

Pitch anything that would work with this, I don't care how nonsense the words are!

u/mishek00 — 1 day ago

most word games : spelling :: Semantle : meaning :: Rhyme Golf : pronunciation

I made a daily word game where it's the sound of the words that matter.

https://rhyme-golf.com/

Powered by a Rhyme Distance Engine I've been working on that scores how close any two words sound.

It's a very different style of thinking. You'll be mouthing the words to yourself.

I've been trying to dial in the difficulty. Let me know what you think.

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u/Pine-Merchant — 1 day ago
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Made a competitive online word game battler. SpellHuntr

Me and my kids play A LOT of word games. My daughter is 7 and would probably run away from home if we forgot to do the daily Boggle (Netflix games Version). I wanted more features and game modes so I've been making this. Its got a ranking system like chess, has private game lobbies to play with friends, levels, achievements, a daily challenge. Works on PC but I like the experience on mobile. Id love to get feedback if anyone likes these types of things.

SpellHuntr

u/Euphoric_Cause3322 — 2 days ago

TwoFold! Two illustrations. Two words. One letter apart.

Can you find the extra letter?

That's the premise of the mechanic that I built TwoFold on. The actual game contains five such pairs of images that need to be solved to spell the day's word. Clean, minimal UI, no ads.

It launched today, and I’d love to hear how the difficulty feels.

Play: https://www.playtwofold.com/

The pair above is just a sample, so today's puzzle is completely fresh.

Please spoiler-tag the answer if you solve it :)

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We made a daily word game where you dig through a tower of letters

Hi! We've been building a daily word game and we're looking for people to try it:
https://wordlander.klurium.com
Chain letters into words — words clear and the tower sinks. Stones drop in and sit in the way until you dig past them. Same tower for everyone each day, daily leaderboard, free, no login.
Is it clear what to do from the start? Anything goes, including "I didn't get this part".

u/Far_Highlight2898 — 2 days ago

What’s the funniest 26-word sentence you can make where each word starts with A, B, C… all the way to Z?

Angry bears cook donuts, eagerly fighting giant hippos, insulting jealous kangaroos, licking mysterious noodles, ordering pizzas, questioning robots, stealing tacos, using vacuum-cleaners while x-raying yellow zebras.

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u/gloussou — 2 days ago

pls help me find a game i was just playing

i just found a game someone posted. and i can’t find the post again. but it was a website link to a game called like tuffle or tuckle or tuggle (?????) i don’t remember … but reddit refreshed and got rid of it before i could finish the game… i’m so mad 🤦🏻‍♀️

it was a word find game with a 5x5 grid of letters. i had like 45 findable words that i could make with the letters. i think the logo had a penguin on it. i’m so mad that it refreshed and i lost it. UGH!

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u/abbymwah — 1 day ago

Crossworld - Endless crossword builder with friends

Play here:

I built this game because my wife and I love to play Scrabble together and we thought it would be fun to build a huge crossword together with more friends. The idea evolved into this full game with terrain, dungeons, chests, fairies, and more. I wanted to share the game with everyone here who also loves word games.

u/John-Apiary — 2 days ago

Fluxis for Tuesday, Aug. 18

Fluxis Redux 2026-08-18

Score 17 / Fluxometer 17

sizzle → >!each!< → >!hallucinations!< → >!hallucinations!< → sizzle

https://daylightdata.net/fluxis-app/

National Fajita Day!

¡Olé!

And I'm getting a little tired of not being able to beat my own computer program. I'm seriously thinking about having the fluxometer be based not on the computer best, but on an average of the top two or three.

By the way, the computer's answer for today was: >!ear → recommendation → recommendations!<

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u/scodtt — 3 days ago
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Ourofouro -- My cousin drew a sneak eating its tail and it became a quirky game! DUEL ME :)

DUEL ME ⚔️ I closed Loop #155 in 0:29 · flawless. Same loop, your clock starts at zero.

My cousin Via (she's a comic artist) drew a snake eating its own tail with words one afternoon (ouroboros, get it?), I spent the summer turning it into a word game. Feedback welcome. :)

- Four words in a loop. Each word's last letter starts the next one, and the corner tiles belong to two words at once, so solving one hands you letters in two directions. POST, TRAP, PREY, YELP, and you're back at POST.
- One loop a day, free, no signup, about three minutes. Via also drew Ora, the *snek* who watches you play and gets increasingly unwell about your performance.
- There's a duel mode. I'm usually banned from it, because I wrote the rest of the puzzles, but I had my cousin create this one to duel you all with!

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u/GlutenDoll45 — 3 days ago
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Can you solve this puzzle?

Word Arrow Block

Every word on the board is an arrow. Spell the word, fire the arrow.

Slide the letter blocks until a word reads true. The arrow lights up. Fire it — if its path to the edge is clear. Clear every arrow, and the level is done.

u/Lionati — 3 days ago
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I made a word game where the goal isn't to guess the word, but it's to find the rarest one

You get a few letters that have to appear somewhere inside your word. You get 6 tries, and the goal is to find the rarest valid word you can think of.

Each guess shows you how rare your word is, so you can keep trying to beat it.

Would love to see what words people come up with and its rarity.

Here's the link: wordink.app

u/Triarii789 — 3 days ago
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I built a simple app to help you learn 15 new words a day — would love some feedback

The idea is pretty straightforward: learn 15 words a day without making vocabulary practice feel overwhelming.

Each word comes with its meaning, pronunciation, synonyms, antonyms, and an example sentence. You can mark words as Easy or Hard, and difficult words are saved to your Focus Words so you can come back to them later. There’s also a daily streak and progress tracking to help build the habit.

Available on Play Store. Since this is my first, would honestly be grateful for any feedback and suggestions

Note: This post's only focus is "If you’re trying to improve your English vocabulary, I’d really appreciate it if you gave Lexorra a try and told me what you think — especially what you like, what feels confusing, or whether you’d actually use something like this every day."

u/Exert7462 — 3 days ago
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[####] I Made Wordle Competitive

I really like Wordle, but the one thing that always bugged me was that there isn't actually an opponent.

You're basically racing your own past performance.

So I built LOUTRIS — basically Wordle, but as a live competitive 1v1.

Both players are solving the same word, but they share a pool of 7 guesses total, split 4–3 between them.

Each player also gets 90 seconds on their own clock, chess-clock style. Your clock only runs while it's your turn and stops as soon as you submit a guess.

So now you're not just trying to solve the word.

You're trying to solve it before your opponent does, while managing your limited guesses and your own time.

Whoever gets the word first wins.

There’s also:

-ELO rating

-Global leaderboard

-Wins / losses / draws

-Daily Word mode + streaks

-Classic mode

I built the whole thing solo and it's still evolving. The design definitely needs some work, but I'm pretty happy with how the gameplay feels so far.

If you want to try it:
https://loutris.online

Would love to hear what you think, especially about the 7 shared guesses + 90-second chess clock idea.

u/Firm-Community-860 — 3 days ago

Probably the prettiest word game out there

Before playing, you select the theme and the mood for the game. How cool is that?

u/wordgamesyesss — 3 days ago

Ravel: One More Word

I made a word game for people who always think “one more word” before time runs out
I’ve been working on a little iPhone word game called Ravel: One More Word, and it’s finally live on the App Store.
The basic idea is pretty simple: you get a grid of letters and drag through adjacent letters to make as many words as you can. The catch is that the pressure keeps building, so there’s always that moment where you know there’s another word hiding in the board and you’re scrambling to find it.
There’s a daily mode where everyone gets the same board and an endless mode if you just want to keep playing.
It’s free, and this is my first real App Store release, so I’d genuinely love some feedback from people who already play a lot of word games — especially on difficulty, scoring, and whether the “one more word” loop actually hooks you.
Ravel: One More Word
iPhone/iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ravel-one-more-word/id6786509085

u/Harp-b — 3 days ago
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See if you can solve this Superposition Word Search!

If you are new to Superposition Word Search, do take a minute to check out the rules.

u/FluxParticles — 3 days ago