Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Kattam - The Box
A dad-son megalomaniac word puzzle enterprise
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Kattam - The Box launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Here’s a free, fun, novel five-letter word game for the web! It’s a game I originally wrote for the iPhone in 2010, but wasn’t able to finish before my first child was born. When I left my senior web developer job in September 2021 I figured I would postpone looking for work and finish the game before another 11 years passed, and expose myself to new skills doing it (in this case, Swift). I released it on the App Store in December, then turned my attention to doing a web version — when suddenly Wordle was in The NY Times, and then everywhere. Perhaps foolishly, I plowed ahead and here we…
2022 · threemagicwords.app · its alternatives →
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2022 · twentyletters.com · its alternatives →
- 4IM
2024 · triword.net · its alternatives →
- 5HA
This is a game I wrote over the last month and a bit. The effort allocation was pretty different from what I've done in the past. The game design snapped together very quickly: I had the initial idea, played a couple of games on a spreadsheet to get a feel for the idea, and made one change based on those plays. After that everything felt just right through multiple rounds of playtesting. Likewise the puzzle generation is nowhere near as elaborate as in my previous game, fairly simple methods worked well and provided good variety. Instead I ended up spending silly amounts of time on curating…
2024 · huewords.snellman.net · its alternatives →
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Wordamour▲56Personalised word search puzzle for your special someone
2024 · wordamour.com · its alternatives →
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Hi everybody. I occasionally make little browser-based games, and this is my latest attempt. It's not quite done, but it's quite playable (note: it does include audio): https://www.omiword.com/ This has been my occasional tinker target for ~5 years now, starting in the early days of Covid. The objective is to drag letter tiles within certain boundaries to spell four common American-English words. It hasn't got ads or anything, it's just supposed to be fun for its own sake. If people happen to like it, I might add an option for folks to make a small, one-time payment to unlock…
2025 · omiword.com · its alternatives →
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Play word puzzles with friends, learn and train your brain
2022 · its alternatives →
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- 13NL
I've been playing Wordle and remembered this puzzle game I used to play with my grandfather. It's inspired by the block puzzles in many newspapers but made to be shorter: just guess the nine letter word. So I made a quick thing to play with my family like we used to. I thought you guys might enjoy it.
2022 · nineletterwordgame.com · its alternatives →
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Well try our Free word puzzle game called words dropped!
2020 · its alternatives →
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Ultimate word game designed for fresh challenge lovers.
2025 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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- 19IM
English is my second language. From my experience, I learnt that developing your vocabulary is a long and arduous process. Traditionally, learners used flashcards (or their digital incarnations). I wanted to build something more engaging and more effective in building your vocabulary. DictionaryGames is aimed mostly at ESL (English as a Second Language) students, but I am hoping it might be fun for any English language lovers. The project is in BETA, it is free, and no registration is required. I am looking for feedback to improve it. If you comment, please indicate if you are a native…
2025 · dictionarygames.io · its alternatives →
- 20SW
I just finished my first iOS game, Snack Words, which is a real-time, multi-player word finding game. iTunes link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/snack-words/id425786167?mt=8&ls=1 YouTube video demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zPQuqoUHqU I wanted to build something very simple and minimal. There's no figuring out who to play, and each game is only 90 seconds long. The backend is 2,400 lines (so short!) of Erlang which speaks a custom protocol (length tagged JSON packets) to the client. The Objective-C side protocol implementation makes heavy use of blocks and works a lot like my…
2011 · its alternatives →
- 21AP
Hello HN! I was thinking of gift ideas for my special someone. I wanted to create a personal gift that could be both experienced in the moment and treasured forever. A custom word search puzzle, filled with our special memories, inside jokes, and shared moments — seemed like a great idea. I thought hard to come up with the words, used an online tool to generate the puzzle, and put it on a page I designed on Photoshop. After seeing my partner's face light up as she discovered each word in that puzzle, I decided to create a delightful app to help others surprise their partners! Wordamour's…
2024 · wordamour.com · its alternatives →
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Relax Train your Brain & improve Vocabulary with Word Puzzle
2023 · its alternatives →
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