Letters, words, geolocation, stories
A puzzle-design lab where letters, words, geolocation, and stories combine to invent new puzzle mechanics. Four playable prototypes, presented below, evolve from session to session.
See the featured games →Rotating letter lock
Each row of a grid carries a fixed ring of four letters — the right one and three decoys — that the player rotates until it lines up with a shared target column, like dialing in a combination cryptex.
Column-by-column cipher
A sentence is laid into a four-row grid. Each column shuffles its own letters vertically: the player re-sorts them, column by column, until the sentence reappears.
A word mosaic with a hidden theme
Twenty letter fragments spell five keyword answers: two or three of them, filled out with bonus words, build a sentence one find at a time — and all five also share a hidden theme, revealed only once every keyword is found, the way the original Quartiles works.
Two words tangled, letter by letter
Two equal-length words are stacked on a two-row grid: a few letters have swapped places, between the two words or within one of them. Drag a letter to a neighboring cell to swap it — with no color hints at all — until both words reappear.
Rotating letter lock
Column-by-column cipher
Word mosaic, hidden theme
Two words tangled
Decode the scrambled signal
Restore an old manuscript
Archaeological dig for phrases
Cartographer's sliding puzzle
Nested anagrams, final word