Kern Word Puzzles
Three games. One fair score.
$4.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Three word games with one fair score, inside living worlds that react to what you spell. Daily puzzles, Game Center, fully offline. No ads, ever.
Kern is a word game about handling letters with care. Three ways to play, one fair leaderboard, and living worlds that react to the words you find.
No ads, ever. No subscriptions, no accounts, no tracking — one price, the whole game.
Three modes, one score:
Wheel — swipe through a letter wheel to spell words that fill a mini crossword. Extra words bank as bonus finds.
Search — classic word search with a twist: every hidden word belongs to the world you're in. An Ocean board hides ocean words.
Chain — drag any path through neighboring letters and build your own words. The board hides more than you think.
The puzzles are in English: every board is built from an English word list, and every word you play is an English word. Menus and tutorials are available in nine languages.
Every puzzle carries a computed par, and your score is your quality against par plus a speed bonus — the same formula in every mode, every world, every level. No theme or setting can buy points. That's what makes the daily leaderboard one competition instead of three.
Worlds that play back:
Play inside eight evergreen worlds — Ocean, Sunset, Forest, Desert, Library, Park, River, or the Print Shop. Each world has its own light, its own tiles, and its own generated music — and it listens. Long words send a pulse through the board. Streaks build the world's energy. And when you find a word that belongs to the world — CORAL in the Ocean, FOLIO in the Library — the world answers with something special.
Ten more arrive on their own calendar: Winter, Spring, Easter, Summer, Fourth of July, Autumn, Halloween, Harvest, Snowfall, and Midnight for New Year's. No downloads, no events to join — they simply appear when their season does.
The Daily Kern:
One seeded puzzle per mode per day — the same boards for everyone on Earth, computed on your device. Compare fairly on Game Center daily leaderboards, or play endless free puzzles in any world.
Built the quiet way:
No accounts. No ads. No subscriptions. No data collection — nothing leaves your device except the Game Center scores you choose to post. Works fully offline, on iPhone and iPad, in any window size. Music is generated on device, so no two sessions sound the same.
One price, the whole game. Handle your letters with care.
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Two screens that still showed English when Kern runs in another language are now translated: the Define button on the puzzle-complete card, and the Search tip that tells you a found word opens its definition. Puzzles and scoring are unchanged.
The developer, Blaine Miller, 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
- Blaine Miller
- Size
- 3 MB
- Category
- Word
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 8 more
- English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Blaine Miller
