Loopy Letters - A Word Game

A word game with a small gameplay loop. Plays best on your phone.

Games

  • Main Game (/) - Use every letter on the donut to spell words random words.
  • Birds (/birds) - With random birds instead of random words.

Project Structure

├── backend/
│   └── index.ts             # Main Hono server with API routes
├── frontend/
│   ├── components/
│   │   └── GameApp.tsx      # Main game component
│   ├── index.html           # HTML template
│   └── index.tsx            # Frontend entry point
├── shared/
│   └── gameLogic.ts         # Shared game logic and utilities
└── README.md

Rules

  1. Use every letter on the donut to spell a word.
  2. Letters in the word must be adjacent to each other on the donut.
  3. You can go clockwise or counterclockwise.
  4. When you find a word, the next word to find appears.
  5. Go fast. Go slow. Enjoy.

This revisits the gameplay from a 2002 Observable notebook I made called "find a (big) word, rings".

Data Sources

  • Main game uses random words from the Wordnik word game list
  • Birds version uses Wikipedia's List of Birds By Common Name with images