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WordTymAn endless themed word search

Pick a theme and a size, and a fresh puzzle is made on the spot from 18,183 words across 43 themes, on tablets and phones. It never runs out. Word to your mother.

Coming soon toGoogle Play
Coming soon to theApp Store

Free to play, on Android 12 and later, and iOS and iPadOS 17 and later.

The WordTym mascot: flat-top hair, white shades, a microphone in one hand and a peace sign in the other.

Have a go

This board is live. Drag across a word, or tap its first letter and then its last. Each one you find takes its colour in the list.

It's a small Easy board, so words run forwards, downwards and diagonally down. The app goes up to 15×15, with words running all eight ways.

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Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter on a word's first letter, then on its last.

Three sizes, all of them open

Difficulty comes from the grid: how big it is, how many words hide in it, and which ways they run. It never comes from obscure vocabulary, so every word in the game can turn up at every size.

  • Easy

    11×11 grid, 8 words

    Words run forwards and downwards.

  • Medium

    13×13 grid, 12 words

    Words run six directions, including backwards.

  • Hard

    15×15 grid, 16 words

    Words run all eight directions.

43 themes, each with its own photograph

Every theme is a hand-sorted word list, from Birds to Law & Government, with its photograph behind the board while you play. Potpourri draws from every word in the game.

See all 43 themes
  • Music381 words
  • Space & Astronomy326 words
  • Sea Life300 words
  • Cooking & Baking421 words
  • Mythology & Fantasy357 words
  • Gems & Minerals309 words
  • Cities & Countries387 words
  • Weather & Seasons343 words

A new puzzle every time

Words are dealt from a shuffled deck, so you work through a theme before any of it comes round again, and the last 200 words you've seen are held back, so you rarely meet the same word twice in a sitting.

The letters around them are drawn from the theme's own alphabet, so the words you're after don't stand out from the noise.

And no board ever spells a second copy of a word you're looking for.

A fresh Hard puzzle in the Garden & Bugs theme: a 15 by 15 letter grid over a photograph of lavender and a butterfly, with sixteen words to find.
A finished Computers & Tech puzzle, every word banded in colour, with a card announcing Level 14.

Every word you find is kept

Your collection counts each of the 18,183 words once, the first time you find it, and every theme has a ring that fills as you go.

Levels count every word you find, one level for every 50, and there is no top level. Personal records remember the time they beat.

47 trophies to earn

Here are some of the first. The rest stay hidden until they're yours.

  • 50 words discovered

    Discover 50 different words.

  • Level 5

    Reach level 5. Every 50 words found is a level.

  • Three days running

    Finish a puzzle three days running.

  • First Hard puzzle

    Finish a Hard puzzle.

  • Five without a hint

    Finish five in a row without using a hint.

  • A personal best beaten

    Beat one of your own records.

  • Hard, no hints

    Finish a Hard puzzle without using a hint.

  • 250 words discovered

    Discover 250 different words.

Made to pass the time, not to test you

There's no way to lose
No countdown, no penalty for a wrong drag. A puzzle you're playing can't be lost, and if you leave one it waits on Home exactly as you left it.
Nothing is locked
Every theme and every size is open from the first launch. Levels and trophies are for keeping, never keys to anything.
Streaks forgive
A daily streak gets a grace day, and the quick-solve bonus only ever compares you with your own usual time. A run that ends is noted in Stats, never pushed at you.
It never nags
No notifications, no account to make, no leaderboard. It's there when you want a puzzle.

Free, with a way to turn the ads off

Every theme and every size is free. Ads show on the menus and when you leave a finished puzzle, never while you're playing one, and never more than one full-screen ad in three minutes. A single purchase removes them for good. The puzzles are the same either way.

Built for tablets, at home on phones

WordTym is made for a 10-inch screen and fits itself to phones, split screens and either orientation. It's native on both Android and iPad, and a backup made on one opens on the other, so your collection moves with you.

Find your first word

Every theme and every size is free from the first launch, on Android, iPhone and iPad.

Coming soon toGoogle Play
Coming soon to theApp Store