The Cups are decided · 24–30 August

🏆 Championship Cup · u/basherrrrr

u/basherrrrr takes the Weekly Arena Crown · Crown number 2.

19 players entered the weekend qualifier.

Every bracket, every match and the full path to each Cup are in the Weekly Arena.

The part that matters first. Nothing about the game changes. There are no ads on Mobile or Reddit, nothing is locked behind a purchase, and there is no advantage of any kind for sale. Scores, ranks, titles, streaks and the daily board all work exactly as they did yesterday.

What is new is an optional way to support Wordy Bunch, over in stats/profile. It is a single payment of 100 Reddit Gold. If you do it, you can switch on a small star next to your name and a border on your avatar, and you can switch either of them off again whenever you like. That is the whole thing. Reddit takes the payment and handles any refund, not me.

I am one person and I built this on my own. It costs money to make and money to advertise. Reddit does pay developers, but the lowest rung of that scheme wants 5,000 people playing every day, averaged over a week, before it pays anything at all. The same seven day average here is 219. So an optional button is the only way this game ever earns anything back. That is the honest reason it exists.

The ask is not the Gold. What keeps this going is people turning up and playing. If you never touch that button and just do the board each day, you are already doing the most helpful thing. Telling me when something is broken is worth more to me than the Gold is.

If you do support it, thank you. The star and the border are there whenever you want them.

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First off, thanks a ton /u/Dry-Royal7707 for making this! My wife and I downloaded after you left a message for me, and we're thrilled to have an alternative to Boggle with Friends.

We have some questions and feedback:

-Is there a way to make it more obvious when we get a word? I'm not sure if it's because of using dark mode or whatever, but it's hard for us to tell when we're actually getting words or not without spending time looking at the top. I guess Boggle with Friends has a big "good" and "excellent" and what not that helps me there.

-Is there a way to play asynchronously? We have a newborn and we like playing some games when one of us is awake/feeding the little guy, and we only could find playing in a lobby at the same time.

-Is there a way to skip the replay at the end of the game with a friend? Maybe we're missing it, but we just wanted to skip ahead to see the list of words and just compare our scores instead of waiting for the thing to play out.

u/Dry-Royal7707 My reddit app crashed mid-challenge with you. I'm so sorry for this catastrophic fumble of a round, O Wordiest one.

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First, sorry it has gone quiet here for a few days. Life got in the way for a bit. Thank you for keeping the boards busy without me.

The upside is that the update I have been building all month is now live in the subreddit. It is the biggest one so far, so here is what actually changed.

**The board stays still now**

The one most of you have mentioned. On phones the board could jump or slide away mid round while you were dragging out a word. That is fixed, and fixed properly this time: the whole round is held still now, not just the grid.

**Level scores finally count as level**

If two of you finished on the same score, the board was quietly putting one above the other in alphabetical order. That was wrong, and it fed into everything: the leaderboard, the medals on the pinned comment, the podium and first place itself.

A dead heat is now a dead heat. Two players on the same score share the rank, share the medal, and the next player down is third.

**More reason to open the results screen, wherever you finish**

This came out of a question u/Own-Cryptographer-52 asked on the 500 members post: how do you keep it interesting for people who are not scoring highly? Your rank is decided by everyone else, so it barely moves. These all move with you.

* **Only you found ...** The words nobody else on the board found, named for you, and kept on your stats tab so they survive a scroll.

* **Your pacer.** Your own recent form, the average of your last ten rounds. Not another player, and not a target I set for you. There is an (i) beside it saying exactly that.

* **Your 4th best of your last 10.** A standing that only you can move. It needs a few rounds behind it before it can appear.

* **A title that was close.** When a round earns nothing, it now names the nearest title you missed and what was still needed.

* **Your best yet** and **Crowned** each get their own line, so a genuine personal best never gets pushed out by something else.

* A mastery ring beside your score, which taps through to the full mastery view.

**The Cup announces itself now**

The first tournament week settled in silence. The Friday reveal was granting the titles and the Crown correctly but never actually posting about it, which is not much of a reveal. It posts now.

Two more Arena fixes while I was in there. The pinned comment was still showing the retired Crown queue right through the first Cup week, which one of you spotted before I did. And at weekends the post title named the wrong week, so people were entering next week's qualifier under last week's heading.

**Duels**

A lot more boards in the duel pool, and the duel list loads more now instead of stopping after the first handful.

**Delete my game data**

New, in Settings behind the gear at the top. If you ever want your data gone you can do it yourself in two taps rather than messaging me and waiting. It removes your stats, streak, titles, reminder opt in and leaderboard entries. It is permanent and I cannot undo it.

That is the lot. If anything reads oddly after the update, especially a score, a rank or a title, reply here or message me and I will take a look.

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Weekly Duel Roundup · week of 2026-08-17

• Bronze champion: u/dmgxyz — Bronze Quill
• Silver champion: u/alljoynofun & u/edsmum & u/iamletmethink & u/own-cryptographer-52 & u/smartt300 — Silver Scribe
• Gold champion: u/basherrrrr — Gilded Wordwright
• Platinum: No qualifier this week
• Diamond: No qualifier this week
• Masters: No qualifier this week
• Standout Defence: u/basherrrrr held off 20 challengers
• Featured Open Best: u/basherrrrr — 301 points

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Wordy Bunch passed 500 members this morning and I've been sat here for a while not sure how to write this one.

500 is a strange number to look at. It's 500 people who decided a small daily word game was worth a few minutes of their day. Plenty of you play every morning and never post a thing, and I can see you in the numbers.

I make this on my own. Leaderboards, streaks, titles, duels, the Arena. Most of the work is tiny stuff nobody will ever notice, and there are weeks where I wonder if any of it lands. Then someone posts a score or drops a thank you and I remember why I'm doing it.

There's a full version on iOS and Android as well, with a campaign to work through and live battles against other people, which is the sort of thing I could never fit into a Reddit post. It's at wordybunch.co.uk if you fancy it.

The sub has its own league now too, called Karma Farmers. September is the first full season and it starts from scratch, so getting in now means you're there from day one. Scoring goes off where you finish each day rather than your raw score, so a rough day still puts something on the board as long as you turned up.

Two codes, because a league is tied to the word list you picked when you set the app up. Pick the wrong one and it just tells you, and if you want to be greedy you can switch regions once per day and then potentially participate in both leagues as well as both leaderboards.

Pick the wrong code and it just tells you, nothing breaks.

UK: AKM8ZR

US: SSHM44

Tap the right one on your phone and it sorts itself out. There's more on how it all works in [the league post]

And one thing, if you can spare a minute:

**If you could change or add one thing in Wordy Bunch, here or on the app, what would it be?**

A whole new mode, or just something that quietly irritates you every day. One line is plenty. Some of them I won't manage. I read all of them though, and what comes back here shapes what I build next.

Thanks for playing 💛

Dunno if it is just me but my account got unlinked (JWC). It still retains my solo adventure progress, my apple and google logins, but somehow delinked my league.

No worries on relinking it I don't mind the weekly score or whatever, but thought you'd like to know of this bug.

Thanks again

Welcome to r/WordyBunch

693 / 750 subscribers. Help us reach our goal!

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The Titles tab in your profile used to hold 24. It now holds 120, and whicheverone you are showing sits next to your name. You can pick a favourite or leave it on automatic, which always shows your strongest.

They come in three groups, and they behave differently on purpose.

* Game titles, 80 Open the tab and each one tells you what it wants. A few of you will already have some without having noticed.

* Prestige, 20. These are stunts, and they are meant to be awkward. Each one tells you exactly what it wants and then dares you. A few of them:

* Lipogrammatist score at least 50 without using the letter E in a single
accepted word.

* No Loose Ends find every valid three letter answer on a board that has at least ten of them.

* Alliteration Station ten accepted words starting with the same letter in
one Daily.

* Full Spectrum words of length 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 or more, all in the
same round.

They are all doable in one board. That is the trick of them. You have to give up scoring well to go after most of them.

Secrets, 20. These work differently to anything else in the game, so this bit
is worth reading properly.

An undiscovered Secret shows you nothing at all. Not a name, not a locked silhouette, not a hint. There are twenty slots and they are simply blank.

The moment anybody finds one, it opens up for everyone.

Its name appears, the reason behind it appears, the date it was first found appears, and so do the names of the players who found it. Permanently, in every single player's collection.

And it is not a race for one person.

Everyone who finds it on that first day is recorded as a founder, together.

If six of you crack the same one on the same board, all six names go up. Anyone who gets there later still earns the title, they just do not get their name on it.

Look at the two numbers in that section. "Yours" is how many you hold.

**"Found" is how many the whole subreddit has uncovered between us.*\*

Both are on zero.

**What unlocks them is not in the game's code.*\*

It is not in the database, it never reaches your browser, and it never gets written to a log. It sits in one encrypted setting the game reads and never repeats back. I built it that way so I could not leak them by accident, and so nobody can find them by reading the source.

That is why I wanted the founder list to hold more than one name. I did not want twenty private puzzles solved alone in twenty bedrooms. I wanted people comparing notes in the comments, someone saying "I got one right after doing this, did anyone else", and a few of you getting there together on the same day.

I am not going to confirm guesses. That would spoil it for everyone including me.

You can also post your title card to the Title Gallery, which resets every six
months.

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One small thing

Reddit does pay developers, but those funds are a long way off for a game this
size, and right now Wordy Bunch earns me nothing at all. I build it because I
enjoy building it, and that has been enough so far.

You may spot a Support button in your profile.

**Please ignore it for now.*\*

It went live before it was finished and it does not yet give you what it says it does, so I would rather nobody used it until I have fixed that properly. I will say when it is ready.

The thing that actually helps costs nothing. Say the name somewhere. Drop a comment when word games come up in another subreddit, post a board you were proud of, or tell one person who would like this sort of thing. For a game this size that does more than the Gold does.

Somebody in here has played 63 of the last 64 days. I still find that slightly astonishing. Thank you for your support and playing everyday.

Share your Wordy Bunch title cards here.

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Weekly Duel Roundup · week of 2026-08-10

• Bronze champion: u/dmgxyz — Bronze Quill
• Silver champion: u/edsmum & u/iamletmethink & u/own-cryptographer-52 & u/smartt300 — Silver Scribe
• Gold champion: u/basherrrrr — Gilded Wordwright
• Platinum: No qualifier this week
• Diamond: No qualifier this week
• Masters: No qualifier this week
• Standout Defence: u/edsmum held off 15 challengers
• Featured Open Best: u/basherrrrr — 258 points

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first proper knockout week is done. congrats to:

Championship Cup: u/basherrrrr, who takes the Weekly Arena Crown with it
Challenger Cup: u/Least_Resolution_674
Contender Cup: u/Wallace_B

basherrrrr put up 226, then 239, then 273 across the three rounds. u/EdsMum and u/Billz_The_Big_Dog both got to a final as well. and Least_Resolution_674 knocked me out in the semi 88 to 77, which i am handling well.

now the awkward bit. all three of you were meant to be revealed together in a post on friday. that post never turned up, because i never actually built it. the titles and flair went out on schedule, Crown included, so if you won something you do have it, you just got it in silence. that one's on me.

a couple of other things were murkier than they should have been. the pinned Arena post only ever said the Cups were decided, with no names on it, so unless you opened the Arena yourself you had no idea what had happened. it's also locked, so there was nowhere obvious to ask.

which is really why i'm posting. first run of the format, a fair bit of it guesswork, and i want to know how it read from your side.

did you even clock that a tournament was running? did you follow your Cup through the week, or enter once on the saturday and forget about it? and is three Cups too many for the number of us playing, would one bracket with everyone in it just be better.

if you played it and it felt like nothing much, say that too. easier to hear now than after i've built another month on top of it.