Wordloom

At a glance

Wordloom is a daily browser word puzzle in which you drag letter tiles into a grid until every row and every column spells a real word. A new numbered puzzle arrives each midnight with a running timer. It suits crossword and word-square fans who want one short logic puzzle a day.

Good fit

Players who like crosswords or word squares and enjoy the extra constraint of each word reading correctly across and down at once. A colored dot beside each row and column shows whether a word there is still possible, impossible, or already valid.

Consider something else when

You want unlimited play, a story, or a competitive mode. Wordloom gives you one new puzzle a day, and the only score shown is the time you took. Skip it too if you dislike guessing what an unseen word list will accept.

Start here

Open the site and read How to play. Metal tiles stay put. Drag a stone tile from the tray into an empty slot, or tap it once and tap the target slot. Watch the dots: amber means a word could still fit there and red means none can.

Cost and requirements

Wordloom plays in a web browser. William Godfrey built it with help from Claude, and it is hosted at statichost.uk.

Limits to know

The game is labeled v0.9, so expect some rough edges. A green dot only means the word is valid. It may still be the wrong word for the finished grid, since every word must also work in the other direction. Flip swaps rows and columns, and Shuffle only reorders the tray.

Still unclear

• Which word list decides what counts as a real word, so a word you know might be rejected.
• Whether earlier daily puzzles can be replayed after midnight.