Wordalo: Word Puzzle Games

Wordalo is a proper word puzzle app for people who actually like puzzles. A new edition every day: five puzzles on one theme, the same for everyone, led by a real newspaper crossword. Up to 15 stars a day, an edition streak, a big 15x15 crossword on Saturdays and an archive of every back issue. Eleven puzzle types in all. No ads, no subscription. THE ELEVEN PUZZLES CROSSWORD Real newspaper grids, symmetrical with black squares, from 9x9 up to 15x15. Themed clues, real vocabulary. WORD SEARCH Eight directions, forward and back. Drag to mark. Pick your difficulty. ANAGRAM Unscramble the letters. Shuffle when you're stuck. Accepts every valid anagram of the word, so MEAT when the answer is TEAM still counts. WORD CONNECT Letters in a circle, drag through to spell every word you can find. Target words unlock the round; bonus words are for showing off. CODEWORD The cipher crossword. Every letter replaced by a number from 1 to 26. A few starter letters revealed, work out the rest. FILL-IN A word with some letters missing, a clue to nudge you, three free hints a day if you get properly stuck. CRYPTOGRAM A famous line in code. Every letter is swapped for another: tap a square, guess the letter, and every match fills in. Proverbs, Shakespeare and more. LETTER HIVE Seven letters, one in the center. Make words of four letters or more that use the center letter, and find the one word that uses them all. WORD LADDER Change one letter at a time to climb from one word to another. Every rung has to be a real word. Aim for the shortest route. HANGMAN Guess the hidden word a letter at a time, with a clue to help. Themed sets of five, drawn from the same categories as the other puzzles. ARROW WORDS The clues sit inside the grid, each with an arrow pointing to where its answer goes. No clue list to flick through. WHAT'S DIFFERENT - No subscription. No ads. No coins, no fake currencies, no streak-guilt notifications. - Curated themed categories: Animals, Food, Science, Space, Mythology, Movies & TV, World Cuisine, Great Explorers, Baseball, National Parks, and more. Every category hand-built, not a random dump of words. - Printable PDF puzzle paper, including a version sized for e-ink tablets. Export any puzzle as a clean multi-page sheet, perfect for the commute, the kitchen table, or your favorite e-reader. - Share your daily result. A spoiler-free emoji grid you can drop into any chat, your time and stars, answer hidden. - Fully offline. Puzzles generate on your device. Play on a plane, on the subway, or anywhere with no signal. - Private by design. No analytics, no tracking, no data collection. Your progress lives on your device. HOW IT WORKS FREE: The whole edition every day and the papers from the last three days, plus three more puzzles a day from a random themed category. Three free hints per puzzle type per day. Daily challenges, streaks, and achievements all work on the free tier. UNLOCK EVERYTHING: A one-time purchase removes the three-per-day cap, unlocks every themed category so you can pick what to play, opens every back issue, and gives unlimited hints. Yours forever. No subscription, no recurring charges. PLAY IN YOUR LANGUAGE The app is available in 17 languages. Spanish, German, Japanese, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, French and Russian also get their own hand-built puzzle content, thousands of native words and clues written for that language rather than machine-translated from English. Other languages use the English puzzle set with a fully translated interface. MADE BY CHARDIE Wordalo is built by a solo developer. Every clue is hand-curated. Every theme is chosen because it's genuinely interesting, not because it hits a demographic target. If something needs fixing, email contact@chardie.co.uk, it comes straight to my inbox. Happy solving.