Word x Word

About this game

Part crossword, part battleship, part game show. Word x Word pits two contestants against one another in a battle of word-hunting wits! Whoever earns the most points across three rounds wins the game.



Search your board for blank letter tiles, vowels, points, and other goodies. When you think you've revealed enough blank tiles to form a few words, start spinning to pick letters, and rack up points!



Both players are racing to find the word (or short phrase) that's the common link between all the words on their boards. Your boards contain the same words, so don't forget to watch your opponent for even more clues!



The first player to guess the word wins the round!



Word x Word contains hundreds of puzzles, with variations to keep you thinking for thousands of games!

Latest news

• Announcements·25 Jan 2026Official

  Achievements, 400 total puzzles, and a 50%-off sale!

  Every now and again I google myself, just to see what might come up; I happened to decide to do that yesterday, and found that someone at BuzzerBlog had written an article mentioning Word x Word just the day before!Bananas!Excited by this, I just had to put together a little update, and a sale!I hope you will enjoy a handful more Word x Word puzzles (bringing the total up to 400!), the introduction of Steam achievements, some behind-the-scenes updates to ensure the game continues to run on modern hardware for years to come, and, of course, a 50% discount, not only for Word x Word, but also my older rogue-like shooter Mysterious Space!Thanks to BuzzerBlog for the mention; please give their article a read, and maybe give Lexi-Cross a try if you never have! https://www.buzzerblog.com/2026/01/23/what-is-the-best-game-show-video-game-thats-not-based-on-a-real-game-show-and-why-is-that-game-lexi-cross/
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• Patch Notes·15 Apr 2025Official

  Surprise! +12 puzzles (and a maintenance update)

  To make sure Word x Word continues to run on modern hardware, I've upgraded underlying third-party libraries and runtimes to the latest versions (MonoGame 3.8.3 and .NET 9, if you're curious). "And as long as I'm doing this..." I thought, and then proceeded to come up with precisely one dozen new puzzles. Thanks for playing! :)
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• Patch Notes·27 Jun 2024Official

  I couldn't help myself: ANOTHER UPDATE

  There's about 20 new puzzles, plus some tweaks to existing puzzles. There's several new body parts to build your contestant with: a couple new bodies, some more eyes, and a new mouth. The game now detects the size of your display, and offers whatever window sizes it can that will fit. (Users of 4k monitors no longer have to suffer with tiny windows!) There's now a CRT option, for those of us who somehow have fond memories of 50-60 pound monitors :P Have fun! :)
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• Patch Notes·20 Jun 2024Official

  What's this? A Word x Word update?

  This random & unexpected update contains: A small handful of new puzzles. A few words added to a few existing puzzles. Updates to underlying packages and runtimes, which make vague promises of across-the-board performance and security improvements 🤷‍♀️ and ensure the continued functioning of Word x Word on modern hardware. And that's it! Have fun 👋
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• Patch Notes·12 Jan 2023Official

  1.1.1 release: small AI bug fix

  There was a rare case where a computer player would really want to spin for letters, even when there were no letters left for it to spin for, resulting in the AI eternally trying to hit its disabled "SPIN" button, locking the game until you just closed it! I had already attempted to prevent this, but apparently not well enough, SO: I added some extra sanity checks that should (hopefully) once-and-for-all prevent that from happening! Sorry about that!
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