Malayalam word gameമലയാളം വാക്ക് കളി
എല്ലാ ദിവസവും ഒരു പുതിയ മലയാളം വാക്ക്. ആറ് ശ്രമം. ഒരു കളത്തിൽ ഒരു അക്ഷരം — മലയാളം കീബോർഡോടെ. അക്കൗണ്ട് വേണ്ട, പണം വേണ്ട.
Play today's Malayalam word →How a Malayalam board works
One tile holds one അക്ഷരം — a consonant with its vowel sign, or a chillu. കടൽ is three tiles: ക · ട · ൽ.
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 Malayalam 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 കി, the answer has കു. The tile comes back half coloured: the consonant ക 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 Malayalam
Malayalam ends a word in a way no other script here does: the chillu — ൻ ർ ൽ ൾ ൺ — is a consonant with no vowel and no visible virama, a letter of its own. അവൻ is three tiles, not two, and the keyboard gives the chillus their own row so a word ends the way you would write it.
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 Malayalam answer list is frequency-ranked from spoken Malayalam, checked against a native-word lexicon, cut to three and four aksharas, and hand-checked. Easy is a three-akshara word, Hard is four.
Ten more word games, four of them in Malayalam
The day's word is the start. Four other games meet it in Malayalam itself: Search Wordz is a word search with no empty box — swipe the hidden words across, down, diagonally and backwards — 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.
And no reading needed for the rest: three brain games with ten levels each (Hide & Seek, Wall Rush, Cube Fold), the board games Ashta Chamma and Wagh Bakri — tigers and goats, also called Puli Meka and Aadu Puli Aattam — to play against a bot or a friend by room code, and the festival games. Weekly leaderboards, with an avatar of your choice. Full rules are on the how to play page.
No account, nothing collected
There is no sign-up. Your streak, statistics and settings live in your own browser or phone and are never sent anywhere; the privacy policy sets out exactly what is and is not counted. Padamz installs to a home screen and keeps working offline, and there is an Android app as well. Both are free.
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