Everyone, live
Live World
One endless board shared by the whole planet. Hook onto a stranger’s word and watch new ones land in real time.
- Earn when others build on you
- Cheer with six preset reactions
One board. The whole world. Live.
One endless sea of words. Everyone plays together.
Hook your words onto anyone’s and watch the world’s map grow, live.
Or try today’s Daily Seven
Played before?
- No pay-to-win
- No tracking for kids
- Ages 3 to 99
Make one word that hooks onto SEA. Drag or tap your tiles, or focus the board and type.
How the world grows
One board.
Every word anyone plays lands on the same endless board. No rooms, no lobbies, no waiting.
Everyone’s words.
Your word hooks onto a stranger’s. Theirs hooks onto yours. The crossings are where the points are.
Forever.
Islands of words keep growing out across the sea, and the Tides race to paint them.
How it works
Learn it in ten seconds.
Step 1: Grab seven tiles
A fresh rack the moment you arrive. Drag tiles onto the board, or tap a square and type.
Step 2: Hook onto any word
Build off the words other players left behind. Every new word has to touch the world.
Step 3: Score and stay
Bonus squares multiply your points, and your words stay on the map for everyone to find.
The world right now
Somewhere out there, a word just landed.
- ∞
- one board, shared
- 4
- Tides on the map
The World Dictionary
Every word anyone plays lights up the open dictionary. Play one nobody has, and it’s yours.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Nine lands to explore
Sail out from the sheltered Harbor to Ember Peaks, Sakura Vale and the Neon Quarter. Every land has its own colours and its own bonus squares.
Light a lighthouse
Play a word nobody has ever played and a lighthouse lights up with your name on it, for good.
Paint it with your Tide
Every word colours the map for your Tide. Zoom out to the whole world and see whose colours are spreading.
Set foot on the map
In the game, tap the world map or press Shift+M to see all of it.
Four ways to play
Join the crowd, or take it slow.
Every mode is free and ready in seconds. Switch any time, and your progress comes with you.
- A new puzzle every day
Daily Seven
Everyone gets the same seven letters. Find your best word in three tries, then see how you stack up.
- Spoiler-free share grid
- Calendar and practice archive
- 100 levels · 8 islands
Solo Journey
Hand-made puzzles at your own pace. Each island adds a twist, from rocks to secret words, and ends in a boss.
- Up to three stars a level
- A badge for every island
- Ages 3 and up
Little Tide
Picture words spelled by sound, with Tidy the otter cheering along. Nothing to read and no way to fail.
- Every letter says its sound
- Grown-up gate on settings
Languages
One sea, every language.
Each language is its own world, with its own letters, its own dictionary and its own map. Menus, help and guides speak 42 languages, right to left included.
- 39 language worlds
- 42 interface languages
- 3 right-to-left worlds
Switch this page
More to discover
Every turn can surprise you.
Friends to play beside, a free Tide Pass every season, words to collect and a few surprises. All of it free, all of it earned by playing.
Better with friends
Send a link. Play side by side.
Your friend starts with a welcome gift of 3 lanterns, and you earn 25 XP for each friend who joins.
Rewards as your friends play
- 1 friendPaper Boats
- 3 friendsLighthouse Keeper
- 5 friendsMoonstone
- 10 friendsHarbour Master
- Build on each other Play near a friend’s words for a Together bonus, cheer with a reaction and race your Tides across the map.
- Share your best moments Turn a big word or your Daily Seven into a picture card worth sending. Spoiler-free, always.
Seasons
A free Tide Pass, every season.
Each season opens a new trail of rewards: tile skins, trails, frames and badges, all earned just by playing.
- 28 days a season
- 30 reward tiers, all free
- Free for everyone
- No premium track
- No paid tier, ever
Crews
Make a crew. Share one goal.
Up to 8 friends or family share one goal each week. Everything any of you plays counts, and everyone who helped gets +150 XP. Crew names come from a list, and there’s no chat.
Start a crew- Bronze25 words
- Silver100 words
- Gold300 words
- Pearl800 words
Mastery
A medal for every land
Every word you play in a land counts toward its medals: bronze, silver, gold, then pearl. From level 50, every few levels adds a Tide Master crest. Nothing to lose, and no timers.
Collect
Your Word Album
Every word you play is kept and sorted by rarity, from Common to Legendary. Be the first in the world to play one and it’s marked a World First, forever.
- Animal Kingdom
- Colours
- Sea Life
- Picnic
- Weather
- Night Sky
- Music
- Spooky Tide
- Festival of Lights
- Harvest Feast
- Cosy Nights
- Winter Glow
- New Year Splash
- Ripple
- Wave
- Swell
- Surge
- Tsunami
- Leviathan
Belong
Pick a Tide. Climb a league.
Four friendly teams paint the map with every word. Each week you race a league of up to 30; finish near the top and you rise a tier. Everything resets on Monday.
- CoralBold and bright
- KelpCalm and clever
- LagoonDeep thinkers
- SunsetDreamy and daring
Earn
Earned by playing
Tile skins, trails and frames unlock as you climb leagues, finish islands and keep your streak. Adults can buy a few extras on some platforms, but nothing you can buy helps you score.
New every hour
Treasure under the tiles
3 pearls hide in every stretch of sea, and they move every hour. Cover one with a tile to bank 40 XP and a shard of sea glass.
60 seconds
Ride the Tide combo
Play again within 60 seconds and your chain grows, up to ×1.5 XP. It only boosts XP, never the score, so leagues stay fair.
Kids & families · ages 3+
First words, with a friend called Tidy.
In Little Tide, Tidy the otter shows a picture and your little one spells it tile by tile, by sound. Every word plants a flower in a garden that children everywhere grow together. No timers and no way to fail.
- Every letter says its sound
- Pictures instead of reading
- A sticker for every word
- Grown-up gate on settings
Safety built into every mode
No chat, anywhere
Players cheer each other with six preset reactions. There is no chat or messaging.
Names kept kind
Names are filtered, kids can pick a friendly “Brave Otter” style name, and a name you report disappears from your screen at once, and from everyone’s once a few players report it, until we review it.
Nothing about your child
The garden counts words, not children: no names, no ids, no locations. No ads and no trackers, ever.
Bringing Wordtide home, or to class?
- For parentsWhat Little Tide teaches, what children see, and what we never collect.Read the parents’ guide
- For teachersNo accounts and nothing to install. A Daily Seven warm-up, vocabulary practice, early readers.Read the teachers’ guide
- Press and creatorsFact sheet, real screenshots and logos, ready to use.Open the press kit
Our promise
A game you can hand to anyone.
From a three-year-old to their great-grandparent: free to play, nothing to hide, nothing that pulls them away from the words.
No ads for kids
Little Tide and kids’ profiles never show ads. Teens and adults may see ads at natural breaks, never mid-move, and watching one for a reward is always your choice.
No tracking for kids
On our website, kids’ profiles load no tracking and no ad code. On game portals we never request ads for kids, but the portal runs its own code around the game. Teens only get non-personalised ads. We never sell your data.
No pay-to-win
Badges, titles and the Tide Pass are earned by playing. Optional extras for grown-ups (no ads between games, tile skins, hint packs) never change how a word scores and never earn league or Tide Pass points. A word revealed by a hint never counts for leagues.
Built with children’s safety in mind
No chat, only friendly preset reactions. Names are filtered, rude words are filtered, and players can report anything we missed.
An open dictionary
The public-domain ENABLE word list. A word counts because anyone can check it.
No email needed
Save your progress with a passkey or a recovery code. Nothing else to hand over.
Big tiles. Clear sounds. Your pace.
Shaky hands, tired eyes, a screen reader or a toddler on your lap: every setting is one tap away, in every mode.
Try Easy mode- Easy mode: Bigger squares, bigger letters, labelled buttons.
- Keyboard only: Every move works without a mouse.
- Game controller: Stick or d-pad to move, shoulder buttons to pick a tile, A to place it.
- Screen readers: A dedicated mode that reads the board.
- Read aloud: Letters, words and feedback, spoken.
- High contrast: Solid panels and stronger outlines.
- Colour-blind safe: Biomes told apart by more than hue.
- Calm board: No particles or drift, whatever your OS says.
Questions
Good to know.
Anything else? The press kit has the full fact sheet.
Is Wordtide really free?
Yes. Wordtide is free to play, with no subscription and no pay-to-win. Badges, titles and the Tide Pass are earned by playing. Optional extras for grown-ups, like tile skins and hint packs, never change how a word scores and never earn league or Tide Pass points. Ads may appear for teens and adults, never in Little Tide or in kids’ profiles.
Do I need an account?
No. Open the page and you are playing. If you want to keep your progress across devices, save it with a passkey or a recovery code. We never ask for an email address.
Is it safe for children?
Wordtide is built for ages 3 and up. There is no chat, only preset emoji reactions. Player names are filtered, and the word list has a blocklist for rude words. Little Tide, the mode for the youngest players, has nothing to read, no timers and no way to fail.
What happens to my words on the shared board?
They stay. Every word anyone plays lands on the same endless map, and other players can hook new words onto yours. You even earn points when someone builds on your words.
Which dictionary do you use?
The public-domain ENABLE word list, almost 168,000 words, plus our own blocklist for rude words. Anyone can read it, so a valid word never depends on a secret list.
How do Tides and leagues work?
When you start, you join one of four Tides: Coral, Kelp, Lagoon or Sunset. Your words colour the map for your Tide. Each week you also play in a league of up to 30 players. The top players rise a tier, from Ripple all the way to Leviathan, and everything resets on Monday.
Can I play on my phone, or offline?
Wordtide runs in any modern browser on phones, tablets and computers, and you can install it like an app. The Live World needs a connection; solo play keeps working offline after your first visit.
Is Wordtide accessible?
Largely, yes. You can play with the keyboard alone, use a screen reader, and switch on Easy mode with big tiles, high contrast, a colour-blind-safe palette, read-aloud and a calm, motion-free board. See our accessibility statement for the gaps we are still fixing.
Who makes Wordtide?
Wordtide is designed and built by the Wordtide team, a small independent studio. Press, schools and partners can find facts and images in our press kit and reach us through the contact form.
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