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Acrostix
Word battles & daily puzzles
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Now with multiplayer. Battle in Semantic Volley or guess the new daily Hidden puzzle, semantic Wordle style. Crack the locks to earn exclusive stickers. Play free today.
Acrostix is a creative sentence-building game that puts a fresh spin on traditional word puzzles and a new way to sharpen your mind. Instead of guessing a word, you're given one and challenged to create a sentence from it. Each word in your sentence must start with the corresponding letter of the target word. The twist? You're scored on how well you do it.
Acrostix rewards the kind of creative wordplay that's always happening in the back of your mind, except now it counts.
DREAM → "Dusk Reveals Every Abandoned Memory": relevant, grammatical, and creative. Can you do better?
HOW SCORING WORKS
Every sentence is evaluated across three metrics, then rewarded with synergy bonuses for doing multiple things well:
Grammar: Is it a real sentence? Proper structure, verb usage, and diversity all count.
Word Complexity: Uncommon vocabulary, longer words, and exotic letters earn more. The more you play, the more your vocabulary grows.
Relevancy: Does your sentence actually relate to the target word? The closer the connection, the higher the score.
Synergy Bonuses: Score well across two or more dimensions and unlock bonus points. A grammatically perfect, highly relevant sentence with uncommon words? That's how top scores are made.
No random luck. No guessing. Pure creative skill.
WAYS TO PLAY
Daily Challenges: a fresh Daily Acrostix every day in Easy, Medium, and Hard tiers, plus a free Daily Hidden puzzle where you crack a secret word by meaning, Wordle style. Daily scores feed the global leaderboards.
Campaign: five themed islands, from Starter Shore to Crystal Castle, with 200+ levels across Easy, Medium, Hard, and Premium tiers. A branching map, bonus challenges, and a collectible sticker for completing each world.
Quick Play: unlimited words to tackle at your own pace. No pressure, just a relaxing way to unwind and grow your vocabulary.
Semantic Volley: NEW turn-based semantic word battles against a friend or a solo bot. In Standard, the target is shown: take turns playing words that start with a letter in the target, each scored on relevance, and race to the score threshold. In Hidden, the target is secret: probe with words to see how warm or cold each one is, and the first to guess it wins.
Lockpick: a NEW monthly collection event. A new level unlocks each day for the first 12 days of the month. Clear all 12 to earn an exclusive sticker for your card.
COLLECT & PERSONALIZE
Earn Quills as you play and spend them in the Shop on 140+ cosmetic items across 15 themed bundles. Customize your card with frames, banners, tile colors, a custom title, and your earned stickers. Unlock squamojis, (squircle-emojis) you can use in multiplayer matches or pin to your card. Everything is cosmetic, no pay to win. Collect a sticker for each campaign island and a new one every month from the Lockpick event, unlock 30+ achievements, and find the hidden ACROSTIX letters.
WHAT MAKES ACROSTIX DIFFERENT
This isn't a word search or a crossword. There's no single right answer, and two players can score completely differently on the same word. Acrostix is THE word game that sharpens your mind while rewarding your creativity.
FEATURES
Five-island campaign with 200+ levels.
Daily Acrostix and Hidden challenges every day, plus monthly Lockpick events.
Head-to-head semantic and hidden word battles against friends or a bot.
140+ cosmetics and full player card customization.
Play with friends or random opponents, with block and report tools for safe play.
Free cloud sync across your devices.
Fully playable offline for solo modes.
No pop-ups or forced video ads, just a single banner you can remove with Premium.
Download Acrostix and see what your words are worth.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.krookedlilly.com/games/acrostix/terms/
The biggest Acrostix update yet. Now with multiplayer.
NEW: Semantic Volley. Go head to head against a friend or a solo bot. In Standard, race to outscore your opponent on a shown word. In Hidden, submit probe words and use the warmer/colder clues to guess the secret word first.
NEW: Daily Hidden. A daily puzzle where you try to guess the hidden word by how related your probe word is to the hidden target and submit guesses Wordle style. Every guess tells you how warm or cold you are.
NEW: Lockpick mode. A new level each day for the first 12 days of the month. Clear all 12 before the month ends to earn an exclusive sticker for your player card.
NEW: Player customizations. Earn Quills as you play and spend them on 140+ cosmetics, including card frames, banners, stickers, and squamoji reactions, to personalize your player card.
ALSO NEW:
All three Daily Acrostix tiers are now free.
Free cloud sync across your devices.
Redesigned campaign map with new game modes.
Thanks for playing. If you're enjoying Acrostix, a rating really helps a small studio like ours.
The developer, KrookedLilly, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
- Seller
- KrookedLilly LLC
- Size
- 166.3 MB
- Category
- Word
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.1 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.1 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+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Yearly Premium $17.99
- Monthly Premium $2.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 KrookedLilly LLC
