The WordForge cast
Each friend shows you one idea by how they act. Meet them all and see how the ideas fit together.
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Acrostica Crossword construction — builds grids where every letter satisfies two crossing words at once -
Radicle Morphology / word-building — bolts a prefix and suffix onto a root to grow new words -
Origo Etymology / word origins — traces a word back through its ancestor languages -
Anna Gram Anagram / letter manipulation — rearranges the exact same letters into new words -
Rung Word ladder — climbs word→word changing exactly one letter per step -
Metaphora Figurative language — sets two things side by side and says one IS the other -
Tinge Nuance / connotation — sorts near-synonyms by their exact shade of feeling -
Rebus Double-meaning / cryptic clues — refuses the obvious reading and finds the hidden second one -
Boggs Adjacency word-search — traces a path through touching letters to find hidden words -
Vellum The arcade keeper — introduces each format and normalizes not knowing a word