starl3xx.fun / griddle

The Griddle app icon: a 3×3 grid of tiles with the centre square filled blue.

Griddle

Game

A daily 3×3 word puzzle. Nine letters, one hidden nine-letter word, and one rule: consecutive letters can’t be neighbors.

Play
The Griddle app on iPhone showing puzzle #122: four shorter words found so far, listed as Crumbs above a 3×3 grid of letters, with a partial word spelled out underneath and Stats, Leaderboard and Archive below.
Puzzle #122 mid-solve: the Crumbs found so far sit above the grid.

By the numbers

122daily puzzles
zerodays missed
63longest player streak
4,537Crumbs found
1,882distinct Crumb words

A new grid every day since 13 April 2026.

What it does

One grid a day
Nine unique letters hiding one nine-letter word. Every cell gets used exactly once; type it or tap it, and the game resolves where each letter lands.
One rule
Consecutive letters can’t sit orthogonally adjacent. Diagonals are fair game, which turns the word hunt into a spatial puzzle underneath.
Crumbs
Valid four- to eight-letter words flash as you build, so a deep vocabulary pays off well before you land the full solve.

How it works

  1. Any nine-letter word with nine unique letters admits exactly 12,072 valid grid arrangements, so a bank of 279 curated words on a 180-day no-repeat window covers years of dailies.
  2. The puzzle endpoint ships the grid and nothing else; the answer never reaches the browser.
  3. Solves are checked server-side, with keystroke timing compared against anti-bot thresholds before any streak or leaderboard credit lands.
  4. It shares the $WORD token and the whole design system with Let’s Have A Word!, so the two games read as siblings.
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