Kannada word gameಕನ್ನಡ ಪದ ಆಟ
ಪ್ರತಿದಿನ ಒಂದು ಹೊಸ ಕನ್ನಡ ಪದ. ಆರು ಪ್ರಯತ್ನಗಳು. ಒಂದು ಚೌಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದು ಅಕ್ಷರ — ಕನ್ನಡ ಕೀಲಿಮಣೆಯೊಂದಿಗೆ. ಖಾತೆ ಬೇಡ, ಶುಲ್ಕ ಇಲ್ಲ.
Play today's Kannada word →How a Kannada board works
One tile holds one ಅಕ್ಷರ — a consonant with its vowel sign. ಕಮಲ is three tiles: ಕ · ಮ · ಲ.
Every guess is answered colour by colour: green where a tile is exactly right, gold where the tile belongs in the word but not in that place, and grey where it does not belong at all. Six guesses, one word a day, and the same word for everyone playing in Kannada that day — it is generated from the date, not fetched from a server, so it is the same on every device and it works with no connection.
The half-coloured tile
This is the part no letter-based word game can do. Because a tile holds a consonant and a vowel sign, it can be right about one and wrong about the other — and it says so.
You guessed ಕಿ, the answer has ಕು. The tile comes back half coloured: the consonant ಕ is in the right place, its vowel sign is not. One guess, and you have learned something a letter-based game could not have told you.
The order of precedence never changes: a whole correct akshara beats a correct consonant, which beats a correct vowel sign, which beats a letter that is merely present somewhere else in the word. One tile is only ever in one state, so the board can always be read at a glance.
What is different about Kannada
Kannada writes a second consonant as an ಒತ್ತಕ್ಷರ tucked underneath the first, so a single tile can be visually tall without being two letters. The game treats the whole stack as one unit, which is how it is read aloud and how it is counted when you are told a word is three aksharas long.
The keyboard and the word list
The keyboard composes aksharas the way an Indian keyboard does — pick a consonant, then its vowel sign, with a live preview of the letter you are building and a backspace that removes the vowel before it removes the consonant. Keys that cannot legally come next are disabled rather than hidden, so the layout never moves under your thumb. You can also type by roman spelling if you prefer.
The Kannada answer list is frequency-ranked from subtitle data, cut to three and four aksharas, and hand-checked before it ships. Easy is a three-akshara word, Hard is four.
Nine more games, three of them in Kannada
The day's word is the start. Three other games meet it in Kannada itself: Wordz Hunt hides its letters in a drawn scene to tap around in, Set Wordz is a sliding-tile puzzle you push into shape until the words appear, and Chill Wordz is a blast board with no clock and no way to lose. Six more play in English — a crossword, a letter sudoku, snooker, archery, an arcade catch and a bunny maze. Full rules are on the how to play page.
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