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Word Ladder: Daily word game
Change one letter at a time. Solo ladders, a daily puzzle, and live duels.
Word Ladder is a word puzzle with one rule: change a single letter at a time, and every step has to be a real word. COLD becomes CORD. CORD becomes CARD. CARD becomes WARD. Four letters, three moves, one path — and usually more than one way to find it. FOUR WAYS TO PLAY ALONE Classic — an endless supply of ladders. Find the shortest path, or just find a path. Daily — one puzzle a day, the same one for everybody. Come back tomorrow for the next. Zen — no timer, no score, no par. Just the words. Timed — sixty seconds. Go. TWO WAYS TO PLAY TOGETHER Race — two to six players, the same ladder, one clock. Whoever gets home first takes the points. Duel — you and one opponent take turns on a single shared ladder. Win by reaching the target word, or by steering the ladder somewhere they can never reach it from. Share a five-letter code and anyone can join from their own phone. No account, no sign-up, no friend list, no waiting in a queue. BUILT TO BE PLAYED ANYWHERE Every puzzle, every word and every definition ships inside the app. Playing alone never touches the network at all — no loading screens, no "you appear to be offline". A connection is used for two things only: playing with other people, and checking for updates. THE DETAILS • 4,258 hand-checked words — no obscure filler nobody has ever read • A short meaning under the word you are standing on, so a ladder teaches you something on the way up • Three levels of hint, for when you want one • Streaks, statistics, and a full history of every ladder you have finished • Haptics, sound and a reduce-motion setting, each of them optional • Full screen-reader labelling throughout No ads. No pop-ups. No subscription. Nothing to buy.