Word by word by a little gift

Hide words only they could guess.

A word game built for one person. Every word you choose is something between the two of you — and every one they find gives them another line of what you wrote.

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Free. No account. Takes about five minutes.

S U N D A Y

“Our day. No plans, nobody else, every week since.”

How it works

  1. Pick your words

    Places, nicknames, dates, in-jokes. Anything with letters in it. They're played in the order you choose, and you can write hints for the hard ones.

  2. Write what they unlock

    Each word can carry a line of a letter, revealed only when they get it — and a photo, if you want one. Or skip the letter and let the words be the whole message.

  3. Send the link

    They play it on their phone. Unlimited guesses, so nobody loses. At the end they can save the whole thing as an image.

Two ways to do it

A letter, line by line

Seven words, seven lines. They read it a piece at a time and get the whole letter at the end. Best when there's something you've been meaning to say properly.

A paid letter can carry photographs too — one under any line, and one to end on. Each appears the moment the word above it is guessed.

Just the words

No letter — the words are the message. A list of the things you'd call them, or the things you love, one tile at a time.

What they end up with

Every word they guess writes the next line. This one was four words long.

For Sam,

SATURDAY

The day we always kept free for each other, back when we had nothing on and somehow no time at all.

KITCHEN

Where every good conversation we have ever had eventually ended up, usually around two in the morning.

LISBON

Three days, one very wrong turn, and the best meal either of us has ever eaten.

YOURSELF

The last one. You have never once had to be anyone else around me, and I hope that has always been obvious.

Anyway. That is all I wanted to say.

— Alex

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