For grown-ups
OrthoForge asks how the world writes down sound. Seven writing systems make six different design choices: an alphabet (English, Ukrainian, Vietnamese), an abjad (Arabic), an abugida (Hindi), a syllabary (Japanese kana), a featural alphabet (Korean) and logography (Chinese). With the right key, a reader can decode four of them.
Each round mixes decoding with a few “why does it work this way?” questions. A wrong answer shows which misreading was made, such as reading Cyrillic by its English look-alikes or keeping a Hindi vowel the language drops. Three reading cases (a sign, a name, a root) sit under Cases, and every system and its key is on the Systems page.
Nothing is timed.
What it never does
- No ads and nothing to buy (see the privacy page).
- No account needed: what is practised stays in this browser, on this device.
- No streaks, timers to beat, points to chase or leaderboards.
- No chat, and nothing anyone types is sent anywhere.