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Life & fun · March 5, 2024

Gram Jam – A daily word puzzle with a twist

Gram Jam is a spatial word game where the goal is to efficiently utilize your limited tile swaps to make words. Since initial launch, I've added a second mode. There is now the classic: an endless arcade style where you're going for high points, and the daily: where you have a fixed number of swaps and you have to clear 36 tiles. I've been developing Gram Jam for the last two years with the goal of creating a more challenging word game while learning interactive web design. This week I launched the user account feature which allows user data backup and account sync. I have also spent a _ton_…

Gram Jam – A daily word puzzle with a twist launched on March 5, 2024 with 5 votes, #2,083 of 4,270 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

What it does

Dive into this puzzly tile swapping word game, combining letters to score big!

In the maker’s words, at launch

Gram Jam is a spatial word game where the goal is to efficiently utilize your limited tile swaps to make words. Since initial launch, I've added a second mode. There is now the classic: an endless arcade style where you're going for high points, and the daily: where you have a fixed number of swaps and you have to…

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