WORDLACE

WORDLACE is a word puzzle game played on a grid of letter tiles. Each puzzle gives a clue, and the player traces the answer through neighbouring tiles. Once a word is found, it is removed from the board and the player continues with the remaining tiles. Paths cannot cross themselves or each other, so a completed board forms a drawing rather than a tangle.

Most tiles belong to an answer, but a small number do not. Early chapters have one or two of these spare letters, and the final chapters have up to six. The game does not say which tiles they are, so the number of tiles left does not reliably show the length of the last word, and the player must rely on the clue. When the board is solved, the game names the spare letters. Every puzzle has exactly one route for each answer and no alternative set of words covering the same tiles. According to the description, this has been verified for all 1,600 puzzles.

The campaign mixes chapters of everyday vocabulary with 24 themed chapters on subjects including cinema, games, history and geography, each with its own name and colour. Every answer is linked to a short piece of trivia, and these are kept in a journal that can be revisited. There are 800 puzzles in English and 800 in Russian, each campaign with its own vocabulary and difficulty curve. Menu language and puzzle language are set separately. Hints reveal an answer step by step, from a single letter up to the full word, and their use is optional. Clues can also be hidden entirely, leaving the player to solve from word lengths alone.