How to explore
Drag across adjacent letters in any direction, then lift your finger to claim a word. Find at least 3 letters; use each tile only once per word. Slide back one tile to undo a letter.
Claimed letters stay in play. A word can be discovered only once, even by a different route. New words using only claimed tiles still count toward your collection.
Prefer tapping? Switch on Tap mode, tap a path, then choose Claim word. Keyboard: focus a letter, use arrow keys to move, Space to select, Enter to submit, Backspace to undo, Escape to clear.
No timer. No score penalty. Finish the four objectives, then keep exploring as long as you like.
Prototype & vocabulary
WD-P0.1 · Experimental first playable. One fixed expedition. 347 accepted words on the opening board; 651 on the expanded board (304 new possibilities).
Vocabulary is curated for this board: familiar English words, regular inflections, and a small number of less common dictionary words. Proper names and abbreviations are excluded. Some ordinary mature words are accepted. If a familiar word is missing, please note it for the next build.
Word-frequency seed: wordfreq 3.1.1, Robyn Speer and contributors. Frequency-data acknowledgements: Google Books Ngrams; Leeds Internet Corpus; Wikipedia; ParaCrawl; OPUS OpenSubtitles 2018 and OpenSubtitles; SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and colleagues (freely available data). Curated embedded word list: CC BY-SA 4.0. The game makes no network requests; these optional reference links open only when selected.