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Word Circle by Big T

Draw through letters to form words.

Drag through a circle of letters to spell words and fill the list. Every word uses the same set of letters, there is always one that uses all of them, and anything valid you find off the list still scores and earns hints.

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What the game is

A ring of letters sits under a list of blanks. Drag through the letters to spell a word and let go; if it is on the list, it fills in. Every word on the list is built from that same set of circle letters.

The longest word on the list is exactly as long as the circle, so there is always one answer using every letter you have been given.

Valid words that are not on the list are bonus words. They score, and they are how you earn hint tokens — so exploring is rewarded rather than wasted.

How you play it

Building a word
Drag through the letters in the circle, then release.
Shuffle
Rearranges the circle. The arrangement genuinely shapes which combinations you notice, so use it when your eyes stop working.
Hint tokens
Reveal Random picks a square for you, Reveal Choice lets you pick, and Mega Reveal opens roughly a sixth of what is left. Tokens come from solving puzzles and from finding bonus words.
Run the endings
Take a stem and try S, ED, ER, Y, LY, ING — then RE, UN, DE and IN in front of it.

What the four difficulties actually mean

One more letter each step.

The circle size is the difficulty. It sounds like a small change and it is not: each extra letter multiplies the combinations, and the bonus pool grows fastest of all — roughly 3 bonus words are available at Easy, against about 35 at Expert.

TierWhat it isWhat that changes
Easy 4 letters Short lists, and a circle you can exhaust by eye.
Medium 5 letters Enough combinations that endings and beginnings start paying off.
Hard 6 letters Long lists, and a bonus pool worth hunting for the tokens alone.
Expert 7 letters Around 35 bonus words available alongside the list itself.

What is free, and what is not

Two hundred puzzles to start — fifty in each of the four difficulties.

Extra puzzles come as packs, sold one at a time. There is no bundle you have to buy to get a fair deal, no "unlock everything" upsell, and no subscription — you buy the pack you want and nothing else.

Easy pack 50 puzzles $1.99
Medium pack 50 puzzles $1.99
Hard pack 50 puzzles $2.49
Expert pack 50 puzzles $2.99

Purchases are tied to the account you sign in with, so they survive a reinstall or a new device. Prices are US dollars; your local store will show its own.

Why these are different

No ads. None.

Not fewer ads, not optional ads, not a "rewarded" video in exchange for a hint. There is no advertising code in the app at all, so there is nothing to interrupt you, nothing to accidentally tap, and nothing that starts appearing later once you are invested.

No advertising ID

The Android advertising ID is absent from every one of our binaries, and none of them asks permission to read it. That is checked automatically on every release build before it ships — it is a property of the artifact, not a promise in a policy.

We do not know who you are

No name, no email address, no phone number, no contacts, no location. When you sign in, the platform offers the app your display name and avatar; the app never reads them.

Your games are not linked to each other

Your identity with us is a one-way salted hash, computed separately for every game. The same person playing two of our games is two unrelated IDs, and we could not connect them if we wanted to — we removed the ability rather than promising not to use it.

Pay once, own it

No subscriptions. No expiring content. No energy timer, no "come back tomorrow", no currency to top up. You buy a puzzle pack and it is yours, on every device you sign in from.

What we do measure

Anonymous gameplay measurements: how long a puzzle took, whether it was finished, how many hints it needed. We use them to check that a puzzle labelled Hard is actually hard. Saying that plainly is stronger than implying nothing is measured — the privacy policy spells out every field.

You should not have to take our word for any of it. See the receipts

Comfort and accessibility

  • Themes — light and dark, plus a choice of colour themes.
  • The timer can be hidden. If a clock on screen changes how a puzzle feels, turn it off.
  • Portrait on a phone, landscape on a bigger screen. The grid needs the height, so on a phone it stays upright rather than being squeezed into a letterbox. On a tablet or an unfolded foldable it rotates and gains a side-by-side layout. Either way you can move the controls above the board, or put them under your dominant hand on a wide screen.
  • Tablets and foldables get their own layouts rather than a stretched phone one.
  • Nothing is on a clock. No energy meter, no countdown, no push notification asking you to come back. Your stats keep a day streak, and a long one earns a bonus hint — but nothing else is gated on it, and nothing you already own expires while you are away.

Read more

Finished and in final testing. Coming to Google Play soon.