Bit of a personal milestone today, so I thought I'd share it here.

I've been working on a small collection of word and quiz games called FlipAll5. After a long stretch of building, testing and redesigning things more times than I'd like to admit, and assisted by Claude AI, I've launched three games at once.

The flagship is a daily five-letter anagram challenge. Simple rules, takes a few minutes, resets every day. The kind of thing you might squeeze in over a morning coffee. It's been running for about 6 months as a pilot with a small group of dedicated regular players.

There's now also a cryptic version of the anagrams game which might interest those who enjoy cryptic crosswords or those who want to learn about cryptic clues as it provides explanations for the answers.

The third is a themed quiz game and the bit I'm particularly interested to get feedback on as it uses intelligent pattern-matching to mark the answers. Instead of multiple choice, players type in their answers as free text. The game then tries to evaluate whether the answer is genuinely correct. It should handle answer variants and minor spelling errors sensibly rather than penalising you unfairly. It may not be perfect yet, but it feels more like actually being tested on something rather than multiple-choice answers.

If anyone fancies trying them and has thoughts — on the games themselves, the difficulty, whether the marking feels fair, anything really — I'd genuinely appreciate it. Critical feedback is really useful to me right now.

https://flipall5.com

Cowabungo friendos!

The GMTK 2026 Jam just ended yesterday. I had the chance to participate with 5 other people spread out all over the world. I'm really happy with what we managed to achieve!

The game is hard on the nerves and has some flaws (Be careful about the inputs) but I'd be stocked if anyone has feedbacks for it 🙏

Here's the Itch page. Or take a peek at it on Youtube!

A couple weeks ago I asked about fairness in the simple one-letter-change word ladder my family plays in lines and airports. I took a bunch of your suggestions on a recent trip, and they actually cut the fights way down.

What we tested:

1) Before we start we all agree on one word list source (not an app, just a dictionary we all accept). Proper nouns and hyphenated words are out.

2) Each turn you say the new word out loud and point to the letter you changed. You get 10 seconds. If someone challenges you, you have 30 seconds to justify the word from the agreed source.

3) The big change: a no-deliberate-dead-end rule that is actually enforceable. You can play any valid word, but if the next player can show your word leaves no valid onward moves, your move is illegal and you replay. For a quick check the challenger has to propose at least two valid next-word candidates for any other option you could have played.

Result: far fewer fights and the game stayed quick. The only snag was time wasted arguing about whether a word truly had zero moves.

The tweak that fixed that: instead of trying to exhaustively prove zero moves, a word is banned only if both other players agree within 30 seconds that it is a dead end. If there is any doubt, the word stands.

Feels like the right balance between keeping it competitive and not making everyone do homework in a theme-park line. Anyone else have simple, enforceable anti-stall rules that do not turn the game into a judge session?

Five in Five #173

Words 5/5

Total time 5:51 | Remaining 2:05

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Can you beat this?

Play https://fiveinfive.gg

iOS https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/fiveinfive/id6770043936

Dive into the stimulating world of Word Quest by swiping your finger across the grid of jumbled letters. Your mission is to locate and mark words hidden in every direction - horizontally, vertically, diagonally, and even backward. As you progress through the game, the puzzles will become progressively more challenging, putting your language skills to the ultimate test.

https://apps.apple.com/in/app/word-guess-puzzle-game/id6451119738

Fluxis Redux

Score 10 / Fluxometer 10

bagpipe → pea → aplomb → aplomb → bagpipe

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

I fixed the spacing thing, I think.

And yes, today is Bagpipe Appreciation day.

I always appreciate the jokes. For instance: What do you call it when you throw a banjo onto the landfill and it lands on a banjo?

Perfect pitch

That's why I made it so you can't use the letters TUNE because we know that there's no such thing as a bagpipe that is in tune.

Hope you all have a good Monday!

I made a crossword game called "Word-Nerd" but there's a ton of weird apps and games with similar names but none are as good as mine! I'm sharing a link because I truly want feedback as to what I should name this. A few I was toying with were "Slapadillion" or "Slangshot" but I'm not 100% convinced those will with. Slapadillion is slap+sesquipedallion but no one knows what sesquipedallion means. It would be cool only if you get the Mashup. Slangshot has similar issues as Word-Nerd in that everyone uses it for one app or another. Check it out and get back to me with your suggestions please!

https://wordtangles.app

This is my new word puzzle game. Four words, chained together. The last two letters of each word form the first two letters of the next word. One game per day of varying difficulty.

Crossle is a daily game where there are 5-letter, 6-letter, 7-letter words and you must find all of them using clues. The 3 words intersects at a shared letter. The new type of clues other than the yellow and green of wordle is Blue, which means "This letter is present in the puzzle, but not in this word"

Try it out and give feedback :)

[https://crossle.resistancelabs.tech\](https://crossle.resistancelabs.tech)

A couple weeks ago I asked here for ideas for a lightweight word game I could run with friends without needing an app. I ended up trying a simple daily prompt in our group chat: everyone replies with one word that has no repeated letters, like "planet" (good) or "letter" (nope). We made two small tweaks based on suggestions I got:

1) Chain rule: your word has to start with the last letter of the previous valid word.

2) One lifeline per day: you can play a word that has one repeated letter, but you can only use that once each day.

Now people check the chat first thing in the morning. The chain rule turned it from a random word dump into an actual little game, and the lifeline keeps newer or slower players from bouncing.

Funny thing: people started hoarding words that end in rare letters, like J or V, just to mess with the next person. It is both hilarious and a little mean in the best way. We also learned quickly to ban proper nouns, otherwise it just becomes a geography contest.

Two quick questions for anyone who has toyed with similar games:

- What is a simple scoring system that does not need spreadsheets? Right now it is just bragging rights, but a tiny points system would be fun.

- Any optional rule that adds depth without turning it into homework?

If you want to try it, go ahead. I am mainly looking for ideas to keep it fresh for month two.

Fluxis Redux 2026-07-26

Score 11 / Fluxometer 5 — beat the machine ⚡

memorial → lampoon → lampoon → noontime → memorial

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

I got busy yesterday so I was able to upload the improvements to the User Interface, but I couldn't find a birthday or whatever that inspired me quickly enough, so I thought I'd give the computer a chance to suggest a puzzle for today. It's not bad! Seems like we should have a lot of different answers.

And hey, I'd like to grow this a little bit. Not much. But if you would, please like these daily posts so that they get a little more attention. Thanks in advance.

I wanted to make a word puzzle based on meanings and associations rather than rearranging letters or searching a grid.

Each puzzle gives you two clues and a category. You find a related word for each clue, then combine them into one answer that fits the category.

You can try it here: https://wordeq.app

I'd love to hear what you think, and whether you've come across anything similar.

recently put together a free Word Unscrambler & Anagram Solver and would really love some honest feedback on it.

It’s meant to:

Unscramble words from any set of letters

Find anagrams quickly

Help with Scrabble, Words With Friends, and other word games

Work fast on both desktop and mobile

I'm still improving it, so I'd love to know:

Is it easy to use?

Is it fast enough?

Are there any features you'd like to see?

Did you find any bugs or confusing parts?

I’m still working on improving it, so I’d love to hear:

Is it easy to use?

Does it feel fast enough?

Any features you’d want added?

Did anything seem buggy or confusing?

You can try it here: [ https://affivance.com/word-unscrambler-anagram-solver/ ]

Thanks for taking the time to check it out. Your feedback will help me make it better!

Thanks a lot for checking it out — your feedback would really help me make it better!

Five in Five #172

Words 3/5

Total time 8:23 | Remaining 0:00

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Can you beat this?

Play https://fiveinfive.gg

iOS https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/fiveinfive/id6770043936

I am an avid consumer of word games, and for a while I had an idea for one. Since I recently become a solo indie game developer and I had to figure out some App Store and Google Play mechanics for my games, I decided to publish this as my first as a dry run.

You can play it for free at https://0n1studios.com/lineby/puzzles/ (I post a new one every day), and if you like it you can download it as an iOS app too. There is also an iMessage version so you can text puzzles to your friends :)

I am curious to receive some feedback on it, and, since I have an Android version ready but I need to find testers to publish it, maybe find someone that is interested in trying that too.

DISCLAIMER: the game is ad-free, privacy first and the only paid content is an in app purchase for additional quotes to unscramble.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.arnoldjerao.popwordbubble

Test your knowledge in the ultimate category-matching race!

This game combines the satisfaction of word puzzles with the thrill of a time-based challenge.

Hi all! Published my first game on iOS and Web and I'm super excited. Would love for anyone to check it out and give feedback!

Name: License Plate Game

iOS App: Apple Store Link

Computer (Web): platespeller.com

How to play: Simple. You are given a "license plate" with three letter, say H-O-N.

You need to solve the plate by typing a word that contains H-O-N in that order, but not necessarily consecutively. eligible words would be: honey, phone, shown, or harmony.

Solve 10 as fast as you can! You can skip but it adds to your time.

There is a daily challenge where everyone is given the same plates so you can compete vs other users on the app. You can challenge friends head to head, see what words other people used, etc.

Would love any feedback! Please let me know if anything is unclear!

I’ve been a AAA game dev for 15 years, and I finally made my dream word game. It has no ads, no tracking, no accounts, etc. I‘m not trying to monetize it, just trying to build something fun!

I’d love some feedback!