wot-tha
Wot-tha with what3words
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Outdoor recreational activity, or play indoors sitting on your lounge.
Educational word craft while having fun.
So many fun dimensions, limited only by your imagination!
"wot-tha" and “wot3tha” are third party apps that has not been developed, produced or endorsed by “what3words Limited”.
"wot-tha" and “wot3tha” are games where players solve clues created in "wot-tha" by the Organiser of a game to reveal locations in the game.
The Organiser can be anybody with the "wot-tha" app and if using “what3words” locations the "what3words" app.
To navigate to the locations, players can choose either the "what-tha" app or the "wot3tha" app.
"wot-tha" and “wot3tha” are ideal for geocachers, in road rally scavenger hunts, treasure hunts and orienteering.
Use "wot-tha" and “wot3tha” apps to have fun with Metal Detectors.
A fun way for supplying tourist destinations, etc. by adding word quizzes to find them or find the next one.
So many fun dimensions, limited only by your imagination!
Outdoor recreational activity, or play indoors sitting on your lounge!
Educational word craft and also fun to play.
Exercises your brain and body.
Suitable for all ages with adult supervision and/or the game’s difficulty level.
Quest-based format.
Now has the ability to make an unlimited number of Locations in a game to give more possibilities for different types of games such as “Point Of Interest” (POI).
“wot-tha” has Included Games that can be made to suit a user’s locality by editing the coordinates for each location.
more Included another game titled “Australian Airports” using the actual what3words locations.
Updated “About wot-tha” to include changes using the what3words app with wot-tha.
5.0.8 Jun 17
Added a new 21 location game “General Knowledge Quiz” to suit a wide range of age groups.
Tidied up and standadised the layout of the previous games.
5.0.7 May 12
Added a new Game called “Some Words Ending With ble“.
Replaced the divider “ | “ in the Answer Clues with a “ . “ to help remind players to include a Full Stop (Period) between words.
5.0.6 Apr 23
Added another Included Game titled “Foods You May Be Pronouncing Wrong”
Updated the Navigation within the app.
Hidden “Best Playing Experience Info” in the Opening View, now requiring a Button Tap to see it (Saving View space if it is not required) allowing more information to be added.
Updated “About wot-tha” wording.
5.0.5 Apr 9
Rewritten and updated “About wot-tha” to better understand the game.
Added another Included Game titled “Eight Places Called London”.
5.0.4 Mar 17
Added another Included Game more suited for the younger players called “Animal Riddles”.
Updated the Answer Card UI to allow for multi-line clues e.g. Rhyming Verse used in the new game.
Added Back navigation inside [About wot-tha] to allow for previous page viewing.
5.0.3 Feb 16
Added two more Included Games from versions prior to 5.0.0…
“Around Australia” and “6 of 7 Wonders Of The World”.
Simplified the Sharing of new and edited games.
Added instructional text in the QR Code sharing views.
5.0.2 Feb 9
• Added another Included Game “Find The Words”.
• Improved User experience Scanning and Playing.
• Added more information sheets in [About wot-tha] to better explain how the game works.
5.0.1 Feb 3
* Completely rebuilt “wot-tha”…
* Now requires iOS 17 or later for the improved navigation in the map etc.
* Note: This version of “wot-tha” is not compatible with the previous version of “wot3tha” and requires that you update it as well to play games created with this version.
• The “wot-tha” Map now has a compass pointing to the next location and the distance you are from the next location so you don’t need go to the “what3words” app get those features.
• Now allows for more locations other than the 4, 5 or 6 location combinations in previous versions.
• Error checking in the Form is now more advanced catching User Input errors before submitting a game.
• Added “Text Code” as an alternative to QR Codes to enable the sharing of Multi Location games with more locations that a QR Code can contain.
• Sharing games is now easier with more sharing options built in e.g. directly from “wot-tha”, AirDrop, Email, Messages etc.
• The QR Code Scanner now has a Torch for night games.
• Creating a separate QR Code for each location is now possible giving game creation more options (see in About in the app).
• You can now save multiple games in “wot-tha” to edit, share or play later.
5.0.0 Jan 27
In the Map…
Added a Button to more easily copy Coordinates to paste in to other navigation apps if required.
In the Game Form…
Checking of the Three Word Inputs is now done at the input stage and only accepts a to z & two Full Stops / Periods.
User Experience…
Dark Mode now automatically selected to enhance user experience.
Clarified the use of the two card versions, 1) Using what3words and 2) Using Non what3words (wot-tha words) in the Rules & Information.
4.6 12/30/2025
Fixed Longitude Coordinate inputs not allowing more than three digits before the decimal point.
Changed the instruction wording for the Coordinate inputs.
Added a new Included Game titled “Words You Never Thought Existed”.
4.5 12/16/2025
Added a new game.
Instead of “wot-tha” removing commas (,) when building a game (to allow the app to build the data file), a comma is now replaced with a semicolon (;) to allow some similar punctuation in the clues.
Some under the hood improvements.
4.4 09/10/2025
This update now hides the answers and locations that were visable when QR Codes were saved to Photos.
4.3.6 06/24/2025
Fixed some stability issues.
A new game included.
Added some previous game QR Codes to screenshot, save, print and share.
You can now copy & paste the solved Clue-Card’s Coordinates to “what3words” to choose another navigation method and/or collect the “what3words” words if required in a game.
4.3.5 06/12/2025
Fixed some game playing stability issues.
Fixed some QR Code stability issues when editing the Game Form.
Changed the Word-Clue character limit from 80 per clue to 240 per Card to allow more flexibility creating clues and still maintaining the QR Code reliability (some clues don’t need many words and some do so now if there are some spare characters they can be used instead of going to waste).
Fixed the QR Code Screenshot cutting guide for smaller screens such as the iPhone SE.
Edited the “About wot-tha”, adding some more alternative game playing suggestions.
4.3.4 06/04/2025
Fixed a bug that sometimes did not update the QR Code after editing the Game Building Form.
Fixed a bug that caused the app to crash when the Game Building Form was overloaded with input format errors.
Now one step instead of two to get the Included Game.
Added more Format Checking in the Game Building Form to increase reliability…
1) Latitude and Longitude format checking.
2) Limited Characters to 80 in the Word Clue Fields to increase the QR Code scanning reliability.
Put a white background around the QR Code to improve scanning reliability.
Added Screenshot Guides around the QR Code to standerdise the image size saved to your Photos etc.
Gave the Answer Card Buttons their Team Colours.
4.3.3 05/25/2025
This version contains a new included game which can be played as-is or modified to suit.
Game building is now even easier because more format checking is done in the form.
Buttons when not required in Views are now hidden to reduce User error.
QR Code generated can now be labelled with your Game’s name (Easier to identify later).
QR Code generated is now labelled with the number of locations contained in it.
The app now automatically selects the number of locations intended from the QR Code.
The app now automatically selects the number of teams intended from the QR Code.
4.2 04/25/2025
Added information in the “About wot-tha” view on the newly added “One Location At A Time” feature.
Also in “About wot-tha” I have added the Card Locations Chart used in the Printed Cards version of the game.
Improved the look of some views in the app.
Tweaked some of the wording in the app to make it clearer to use the app.
Removed the wording regarding disabling the Screen Idle Timer (now automatically done in the app).
3.3 12/10/2024
Added the obligatory “included game” with each update which I forgot to do with the previous update (sorry).
Now preventing the Screen from Sleeping until you have finished playing a game.
3.2.1 12/06/2024
Introduced the ability to make “One Card At A Time” which allows for a game to have an unlimited number of Locations in it.
Tweaked some of the layout to improve the look of the app.
To make the app more user friendly “in the field” sheet views have been replaced with full screen views.
3.2 12/02/2024
Have given the app a face lift.
Location Permission can now be granted in the app.
Reduced the number of User inputs to scan a QR Code to start playing.
Added a recommendation to disable the Microphone Key on the Keyboard to avoid the chance of inputting into an Answer Field.
My next project will be to do this inside the app.
3.1.8 11/03/2023
Improved the appearance of some Views reducing View Real Estate.
Haptic feedback when scanning QR Codes for a bit of fun!
Two new games included…
A game of the “Seven Wonders of the World” minus one.
A game with a riddle theme.
3.1.5 10/25/2023
Reduced the number of views to start playing a game.
Reduced the amount of user input to create and start playing a game.
Edited the how to create a game instructions to reflect the above.
Improved the location card appearance for iPhones.
Updated the screenshots to show the above changes.
3.1.4 10/19/2023
Have made AirDrop Game Sharing redundant.
Now QR Code is the only way to Share games.
Edited How To’s to reflect this change.
3.1.3 10/13/2023
The long awaited QR Code Game Sharing has arrived!
The app can now create a QR Code from a game made in the app.
You can save this QR Code to your Photos (via Screenshot) to share the game.
The app can now Scan a Game’s QR Code created by someone else with wot-tha.
Note: Sharing is still possible using AirDrop.
ALSO A NO FRILLS VERSION IS COMING SOON
This version won’t have any Instructions or How To’s etc.
It will be used to Scan & Play Games although…
You will be able to edit an included game and Save it to Share using AirDrop and/or a QR Code.
3.1.2 10/09/2023
Included another game titled “Australian Airports” using the actual what3words locations.
Updated “About wot-tha” to include changes using the what3words app with wot-tha.
more Version 5.0.8 Jun 17
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