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WordForge
Every puzzle is a word you didn't know you knew. Word-puzzle arcade (crossword, anagram, word-ladder, cryptic-lite) on a vocabulary + morphology + etymology spine, for ages 9–14.
Meet your mentor
Every Spark & Anvil app has a friendly mentor character that demonstrates, praises, and patiently scaffolds learning. On-device AI personalizes the mentor's responses to your kid's progress — never connecting to a server, never collecting data.
Mentored by Vellum
#C0532B Distributed-narrative cast
Meet the cast
WordForge is a word-puzzle arcade — crosswords, anagrams, word ladders, cryptic-lite, word searches — sitting on a vocabulary, morphology, and etymology curriculum. The cast are puzzlers whose defining act IS the mechanic: interlocking a grid, assembling morphemes, tracing origins, rearranging letters. Keeper Vellum introduces each format and normalizes not knowing a word.
Acrostica
Crossword construction — builds grids where every letter satisfies two crossing words at once
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Radicle
Morphology / word-building — bolts a prefix and suffix onto a root to grow new words
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Origo
Etymology / word origins — traces a word back through its ancestor languages
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Anna Gram
Anagram / letter manipulation — rearranges the exact same letters into new words
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Rung
Word ladder — climbs word→word changing exactly one letter per step
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Metaphora
Figurative language — sets two things side by side and says one IS the other
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Tinge
Nuance / connotation — sorts near-synonyms by their exact shade of feeling
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Rebus
Double-meaning / cryptic clues — refuses the obvious reading and finds the hidden second one
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Boggs
Adjacency word-search — traces a path through touching letters to find hidden words
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Vellum
The arcade keeper (mentor) — introduces each format and normalizes not knowing a word
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What's inside
Learning goal
Every puzzle is a word you didn't know you knew. Word-puzzle arcade (crossword, anagram, word-ladder, cryptic-lite) on a vocabulary + morphology + etymology spine, for ages 9–14.
Question kits
16 curriculum-aligned kits × 25 questions = 400 questions per app, mapped to recognized standards.
On-device AI mentor
FoundationModels-powered hints, feedback, and adaptive difficulty — all running locally.
Mentored by Vellum — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How WordForge handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ No ads, no in-app purchases — you pay once
- ✅ COPPA compliant under the 2026 FTC amendments
- ✅ Parental controls + session limits + content filters built in
WordForge runs on ForgeKit — the open-source Swift Package Manager framework that powers every Spark & Anvil app. ForgeKit ensures consistent accessibility, COPPA compliance, and design language across the portfolio, so your kid's progress and preferences feel coherent across every app they touch.
Coming to the App Store
WordForge is in active development. Email us to hear when it ships — no marketing, no spam, just a one-shot launch announcement.
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