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Life & fun · July 17, 2025

Cobble – A hard daily word game

My friends and I love playing description games, but got tired of the same old cards - so I made a simple web app with a fresh set of prompts, and a different timer mechanic: Rather than teams taking turns, everyone sits together, and you describe only one prompt at a time. As soon as you're done you pass the phone to the player on your left, who gets a new set of prompts to choose from, and so on. After an exponential (memoryless) random amount of time, the round ends (loudly!), and whoever was holding the phone at the time loses a life for their team. It's like Hot Potato. The prompts are…

Cobble – A hard daily word game launched on July 17, 2025 with 30 votes, #661 of 9,223 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.

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In plain words

Cobble is a daily word puzzle game where players receive a set of letters and must create two words that use all of them combined. The challenge is to find the shortest possible words for each puzzle. Designed for word game enthusiasts, it offers a fresh daily puzzle that requires both vocabulary knowledge and strategic letter usage to achieve the best scores.

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From the sources

A challenging daily word game: come up with two words that have all of today's letters and get to the top of the leaderboard!

In the maker’s words, at launch

How to play: 1. You're given a set of letters (such as "ZXCVBNM") 2. Come up with two words that use all the letters (like "convex zombie") 3. The shorter the words, the better!

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