Pocket Games
Words
These games are played with letters, and the words are in the language you use the app in: switch the language and the vocabulary switches with it. There is no rush, and a game left halfway is saved so you can pick it up again.
Each one asks for something different. Secret Word is deduction: five letters, six guesses, and colours that tell you what is in the right place. Your first words are there to rule letters out more than to hit the answer, and there is no word of the day, so you can play as many times as you like. Mathle uses the same idea with an equation instead of a word, and every guess has to be a sum that actually works. Word Code is Secret Word without the colours: ten guesses, and next to each row just three numbers, how many letters are right, misplaced or missing, without saying which.
Word Ladder asks you to get from one word to another by changing one letter at a time, and every step has to be a real word. Woven Words is more relaxed: a few letters in a circle, a crossword grid to fill, one level after another, with no timer and no penalty for wrong words. Word Search is the magazine classic: twelve words hidden in a grid of letters, in every direction, and the difficulty decides how much you know about them.
Hangman is the only one you can also play with two. On your own you pick a difficulty and guess words from a list; with two on the same phone, each of you writes a word for the other, and whoever has more points at the end of the match wins.
On a computer you type with the physical keyboard; Word Search is played with the mouse.
- HangmanHow to play hangman: which letters to try first in English, how many mistakes each difficulty allows, and the two-player mode on the same phone.
- MathleHow to play Mathle: guess an equation in six tries using coloured clues. Three difficulties of 6, 8 and 10 squares, with division and squares.
- Secret WordHow to play Secret Word, the five-letter word game made famous by Wordle: what the colours mean, which words to open with, and how to use your second guess. Six tries, free in your browser and on Android.
- Word CodeHow to play Word Code: a five-letter word, ten guesses and three numbers telling you how many letters are right, misplaced or missing, but not which ones. Rules, a complete worked example and deduction strategies.
- Word LadderHow to play Word Ladder: change one letter at a time to get from one word to another, four- and five-letter words. Free in your browser and on Android.
- Word SearchHow to play Word Search: twelve words hidden in a grid of letters, across, down and diagonally, even backwards. Free in your browser and on Android.
- Woven WordsHow to play Woven Words: drag across the circle of letters to build words and fill the crossword grid. Bonus words, endless levels, free.