Word and Typing Games

Word games reward a good vocabulary and quick eyes. This shelf has a ladder to climb one letter at a time, letter grids to swipe and rope, a wheel built around a hub letter, a code-breaker that assembles a robot, and a typing arcade of falling pop-ups. Most runs are short, and every board has something new to find.

11 word and typing games, oldest first

Cipher Terminal 1980 A 1980s code-breaker: every wrong letter bolts a part onto a vector robot, and six parts lose the word.
Glyph Ladder 1995 Turn COLD into WARM one letter at a time, every rung a real word, with a par for each puzzle.
Hotlink Typist 2001 Type the word on each falling pop-up window to close it before it lands, as the years roll from 1997 to 2004.
Glyph Corral 2003 Rope touching letters into words on a 5x5 pasture while a 90-second clock ticks and long words earn time.
Hubspoke Words 2008 Spell words from a nine-letter wheel, each using the gold hub letter, and hunt the nine-letter pangram.
Swipe Spell 2014 Swipe through touching letters on a 4x4 board for three 60-second rounds with bonus tiles.
Letterlock 2021 Guess the hidden five-letter word in six tries. Green tiles are right and in place, amber ones are in the word but somewhere else. Three words a run, and the daily set is the same for everyone.
Seek & Scribe 2021 A word search themed on one of our museum halls. Mark the first and last letter of each hidden word on the grid. The daily puzzle is a 10 by 10 grid with eight words running right, down or diagonally; the weekly is a 12 by 12 grid with ten words that can run any way.
Lighthouse Letters 2022 Guess a hidden phrase one letter at a time. Every right letter shows up wherever it appears; every wrong one burns a measure of lamp oil. Light all three lamps before the oil runs out. The daily phrases are the same for everyone.
Little Grid 2023 A small 5x5 crossword with a clue for every word. One new puzzle each day, plain clues, US spelling, nothing you need a dictionary for.
Quartet 2023 Sixteen words hide four groups of four. Pick four that belong together and submit. Four slips and the board is revealed. One puzzle a day, the same for everyone.