Whack A Braille
Accessible Whack a Mole
Free · In‑App Purchases
Whack a Braille! is a fast-paced accessible arcade game where you type the right braille character, symbol, or contraction before the mole ducks away.
Play with a braille display, an external keyboard, or Braille Screen Input. Practice Grade 1 letters, symbols, typing-row patterns, and Grade 2 contractions, then cash in your tickets for prizes as you build up your shelf.
The game is designed for blind players, braille learners, teachers, and anyone who wants a playful way to build braille speed and confidence.
Features:
• Built with Blind-first and Accessibility-first design.
• Playable with Braille Screen Input, Braille Displays, and external keyboards.
• Adjustable speech rate and voice selection.
• Mole sets include keyboard touch-typing training, Grade 1 letters and numbers, and UEB Grade 2 symbols,, word signs, and two-character contractions.
• Battle Modes have sets of 3-letter, 4-letter, and 5-letter Grade 1 words, and Wordy Mole Mayhem has randomly drawn 4 to 10 letter words to be typed.
• Non-timed training mode for beginners, along with adjustable difficulty modes and round timer lengths.
• Adaptive Mole Recon feature that keeps track of misses and what braille characters need practice.
Type fast, bonk moles, earn tickets, and see what prize suits your fancy.
more Whack the new wordy moles back with dictionaries of your own! You can now immediately look up any unfamiliar words from the Mole battle and Wordy Mole Mayhem rounds in the Mole Recon and Grudge Match screens. These buttons will pop open the iOS Dictionary so you can get back into a rematch with more informed bonking.
Spell Word now works for Wordy Mole Mayhem! In addition, in Mole Recon for the word modes, Speak Braille Dots will show or hide the dots in the Recon and Grudge Match word buttons. The braille dot announcement has also been tightened up to be less annoying.
1.4.1 Aug 1
The moles are back with a vengeance, and dictionaries! Introducing Mole Battles! These rounds will test your typing and braille entry skills as words are presented to you instead of single characters or contractions.
Start off easy with 3 and 4 letter words, bonking each mole in turn to spell them out. Then move on to the Grade 1 Mole Battle, where random 3 to 5 letter words appear!
When you are ready, enter the Wordy Mole Mayhem mode, where words from 4 to 10 letters in length will appear. Type them correctly to whack the mole and move on to the next one. Perfect for working on touch typing, Perkins entry, braille screen input, and braille display input!
The Mole Chooser has been updated with a more organized experience, and new mole hit sounds have been added for the multi-mole bonks in the Battle modes. All Battle Modes work in Training Mode and Mole Recon, so if a word keeps escaping, have at it until you can type it with ease.
More prizes and Whackiness coming soon, until then, fight back against these ever wordier moles!
1.4.0 Jul 31
Game Settings has a new look and feel! Simplified the overall layout and got rid of all the individual headings for each control, and now everything has been placed in logical sections.
New Support Whack A Braille section, and Feedback has been placed under the About and Feedback heading in the Settings screen.
1.3.5 Jul 29
The moles were busy chewing on all the arcade cables and causing the game to fail when using AirPods. They've since been whacked and the game can continue smoothly through whatever audio devices you prefer, including AirPods. New motivating flavor text has been added to the Round Results screens based on your performance in either the game rounds or training, so have at those moles!
1.3.4 Jun 28
The moles tried sabotaging the game by eating the "ful" Grade 2 suffix. That has now been fixed for all modes of entry.
1.3.3 Jun 15
Added Apple age assurance support where required. Nothing gets tracked, nothing gets sold, and no moles get to inspect your paperwork. The game keeps bonking along exactly the same.
1.3.2 Jun 4
Wow, Mole Recon updates already! Now you can choose between practicing the moles you missed or starting a Grudge Match with all the moles you encountered in your most recent round. Braille Dot speech can be toggled in Mole Recon or during a training round. New training music and announcements have also been added for even more encouragement.
And of course, new shiny prizes across all of the tiers!
1.3.1 Jun 3
Introducing Mole Recon! A new feature that follows your progress and builds an adaptive training mode so you can practice any missed moles immediately after a round. Press Mole Recon in the Round Results screen and you'll get a list of the moles you missed and their dot patterns, and can then start your personalized Training round! Didn't miss any moles? Mole Recon then shows you all the moles you hit and lets you start a personal and customizable Grudge Match training session. Show those moles what's for!
The Training Mode timer has been adjusted so everything is more spaced out and not all crammed together, plus each game round now ends with a fun little bit of flavor text.
Brand new prizes, including new Tier 6 prizes! These cost 500+ tickets, so you'll really have to work up to getting them on your Prize Shelves! Can you collect them all?
1.3.0 Jun 1
A whole mole of updates! Dynamic Type support has been fixed, and large text and buttons will no longer get cut off in the app screens. Focus now moves to a Keyboard Mallet Area when using the standard keyboard input mode; no activation needed, just start typing when the moles arrive. The timing of everything when the game starts has been spaced out, letting you get settled in before the moles begin their attack!.
Braille Screen Input now deactivates automatically in the Round Results screen. Focus management has also been improved across the entire app.
How to Play now has three expandable sections and the Input Info has been moved to the top for easier discovery.
1.2.5 May 18
Added a new One-Handed Braille Input mode to Game Settings. For users using One-Handed Braille Screen Input or display input, the mole timing is now adjusted to accommodate for the increased input time, and adjusts for one-cell and two-cell characters/contractions.
1.2.4 May 17
We found more sneaky moles in the invasion armies! Fixed more of the homophone moles like "1" and "one," "b" and "be," u" and "you." Optimized code to make the Game Settings and other sheets work much faster for VoiceOver users.
The game round music and announcements are now spaced out more so Braille Screen Input and Braille Display players can get set up in a less hectic way. Fixed braille entry area focus issue on game start. This ensures that no mole goes unWhacked when they start appearing!
1.2.3 May 16
Whacking moles is better with a good soundtrack! There are three new Game Sound packs in the Game Settings. Enjoy fighting off the mole invasions with the new Silly, Goofy, and Retro sound effects. Fixed a small homophone issue if a number 4 mole appeared in the same round as a "for" Grade 2 mole.
VoiceOver users will notice that focus now returns to the proper Game Settings control when adjusting options rather than ending up in the Game Settings heading.
Happy Whacking!
1.2.2 May 15
Accidentally broke the Grade 2 "wh" symbol, so we were getting a Whoops instead of a "which" and all the "wh" moles were running away. That has now been fixed. Added a "Repeat Current Mole" button to the Training interface in case you need to line up your aim a bit more before the critical whack.
1.2.1 May 14
For teachers, students, or anyone holding particular grudges against specific moles, the new Custom Mole option allows you to pick 5 individual moles to whack each round, or recruit a whole custom mole army for your own mole invasion! In the Grade 2 Invasion, homophones like "there" and "their" are now spelled out so those moles can stop escaping with their audio trickery. VoiceOver touch targets have been improved across the whole app, which should make things smoother for anyone exploring by touch.
1.2.0 May 13
Major accessibility layout upgrades! No more dead space for VoiceOver users when exploring by touch around the game. Touch target areas have been enlarged, Prize Shelf now opens a sheet instead of unfolding into the main screen, How to Play is not also a sheet, and buttons will be much more discoverable within the interface.
1.1.2 May 12
Added Privacy Policy link to Game Settings screen. Prepping for future updates.
1.1.1 May 5
Grade 2 has officially invaded the mole hills. This update adds loads of new Grade 2 braille practice, including multi-character contractions, short-form words, and suffixes, plus a new Braille Reference to help keep your fingers and brain in sync. We also tuned input timing, improved mode-specific mole filtering, and helped the game find its voice again after calls or interruptions. Bonk wisely.
1.1.0 Apr 15
Version 1.0.2 brings a big round of accessibility and gameplay improvements, including better ticket saving and prize cash-in flow, a richer How to Play experience, improved VoiceOver behavior, premium system voice prioritization, a new speech volume slider, stronger reward fanfares, Prize Shelf details and deletion, the new Grade 1 Mole Invasion mode, and more accurate braille number handling across Braille Screen Input, Perkins, and 8-dot entry. BSI now submits with the Return gesture, making one-handed mode more accessible for gameplay. Under-the-hood improvements also made, prepping for additional Grade 2 two-character mole sets to arrive in the next few updates.
1.0.2 Apr 6
Updated the app icon, plus optimized the game so the rounds start cleaner and faster.
1.0.1 Mar 31
Whack the new wordy moles back with dictionaries of your own! You can now immediately look up any unfamiliar words from the Mole battle and Wordy Mole Mayhem rounds in the Mole Recon and Grudge Match screens. These buttons will pop open the iOS Dictionary so you can get back into a rematch with more informed bonking.
Spell Word now works for Wordy Mole Mayhem! In addition, in Mole Recon for the word modes, Speak Braille Dots will show or hide the dots in the Recon and Grudge Match word buttons. The braille dot announcement has also been tightened up to be less annoying.
more Version 1.4.1 Aug 1
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