anagram arcadus
Anagrams, arcade style
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
anagram is back, rebuilt from scratch.
A draw is a set of 3 to 7 letters plus every word you can build from them. The letters drop onto the rack one by one; slide them sideways until the order spells a word.
TWO WAYS TO PLAY
The Path strings together 15 journeys of 4 to 5 stages - 67 stages, 496 draws, never the same one twice. A journey moves across word lengths instead of locking into one, and stars are earned at 60%, 85% and 100% of a draw's core words. Finishing a journey opens a crowning screen.
Free play draws from the whole pool - 1,735 French draws - with the length, the difficulty and the number of draws you choose.
THE MOVE
Picking up a tile and dropping it elsewhere costs as many moves as the number of slots it crosses. Drag it, or tap a tile then tap where it should go. The moment the letters spell a word, it falls. The chain multiplies your points with every word found in the same draw, and finding them all triggers the perfect draw.
CORE AND BONUS
Every draw carries two sets. The core is what is expected of you: it defines completion, stars and the perfect draw. Bonus words are everything else the dictionary knows - accepted, scored, never blocking. No valid word is ever refused.
THE WORDS
Two sources, two roles: a dictionary says what is acceptable, a corpus says what is findable. Acceptance comes from Grammalecte 7.0, 84,172 lemmas unfolded into nearly 560,000 forms. The core and the difficulty come from Lexique 3.83 frequencies, measured on films and books. Nothing is sorted by hand.
FOUR DIFFICULTIES
They build on three constraints that stack: time per draw, a move budget, and a current that forces the direction of every move and flips at a fixed interval.
Discovery - 90 s, unlimited moves, free direction. To learn the gesture.
Classic - 60 s, 40 moves. Every slide counts.
Expert - 45 s, 26 moves, the current flips every 8 seconds.
Infernal - 30 s, 18 moves, and the current never stops turning.
The current never makes a draw unsolvable: pushing a letter right is the same as pushing its neighbour left. It forces you to replan the order of your moves while the clock runs.
An English pack is also available, built on classic anagram groups.
FIVE BACKDROPS
Three layers of depth, real depth of field, five backdrops in rotation. Sounds are synthesised on the fly: no audio file is bundled. Reduce Motion is respected.
OFFLINE
No account, no ads, no purchases, no connection. The game runs in airplane mode. Best scores and progress stay on the device.
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An English campaign, and the path on the front page.
• English campaign: 15 journeys, 67 stages, 496 draws, with progress of its
own — switching language switches campaign, never the counter. Built like
the French one: acceptance from the SCOWL dictionary, core and difficulty
from a subtitle corpus. 1,247 English draws in free play.
• The home screen is now the map. Every journey opens with a tap, shows its
range of word lengths and, for the current one, its name. The screen in
between is gone.
• A stage now builds tension: three steps that tighten your chosen setting
rather than replace it. The last third is shorter, and the current joins in.
From Discovery to Infernal, each at its own scale.
• Shuffle and Hint show what you have left, counted down live.
• Screens no longer scroll as a whole: long lists scroll in place, while the
title and buttons stay put.
• Clearer paths: clean junctions, the current stage named, and distinct hues
between the map and a journey's detail.
• Fix: free play would not start until a word length had been picked.
Still entirely offline, no account, no ads.
This version requires iOS 15 or later.
The developer, Roland Bodo, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Roland Bodo
- Size
- 3.6 MB
- Category
- Word
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Roland Bodo