About
About WordPebble
WordPebble is an independent word puzzle made by a solo developer.
It started from one feeling: the small, quiet satisfaction of placing the last letter and watching a word click into place. Everything else follows from that. There are no timers, no lives and no rush. The boards start tiny, every word has a clue, and if you find a different real word that fits, it counts.
What's in the game
- 1,000 puzzles that grow from 3×3 to 8×8, then endless randomly generated boards.
- A hand-written clue for every answer word.
- A word list of 79,494 words of 3 to 8 letters, so your own valid answers are recognised.
- Hints, undo, reset, a guided tutorial, soft music, and keyboard and reduced-motion support.
WordPebble runs in your browser. It's free to play and doesn't need an account; your progress is saved on your own device.
Credits
The word list comes from ENABLE (Alan Beale and Mendel Cooper, public domain). Word familiarity comes from wordfreq by Robyn Speer and contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0), which includes SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert et al. and OpenSubtitles. Definitions behind many clues come from Princeton WordNet 3.0 (WordNet 3.0 licence, © 2006 Princeton University). The game's word bank, clues and puzzles are shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Full notices: sources and attribution, WordNet licence, wordfreq notice, ENABLE record, CC BY-SA 4.0. Fonts: Lexend and Figtree (SIL Open Font License). Sounds and music are generated in the browser.