WANTED
Rookie Rae
alias “The Greenhorn”
Keeps her greens and skips the grays, but can’t work out where the yellows go. Your first ten levels, with four-letter words.
One word · Two guns · High noon
A word game played as a duel. You and your rival chase the same secret word across one saloon table. Whoever lands it first wins.
- 3
- rivals
- 30
- levels
- 1
- Daily Standoff
- 0
- accounts needed
House Rules
Three things to know before you sit down at the table.
ITake your shot
Type a word and fire. Your rival answers on the same table, dealing her guess face down before she turns it over.
IIRead the cards
Green is the right letter in the right spot, gold is in the word but elsewhere. Her cards help you as much as your own.
IIILand it first
Turn over the whole word before she does. If the table fills up, sudden death shows a letter and you each get one last shot.
Three rivals in town
They play fair: each only ever learns from the cards on the table.
WANTED
Dusty Vance
alias “The Gunslinger”
Steady hands, sharp eyes. Reads every clue more often than not and trusts his gut over the maths.
WANTED
The Sheriff
alias “Law of the Land”
Calculates every possibility and picks the guess that narrows the field the most. Fast, cold, and almost never wrong.
The working prototype
Real screenshots from the app running in the iOS Simulator.
What’s in the saddlebag
Everything runs on your phone. No account, no server, no ads.
- Daily Standoff
- one word a day, the same rival game for everyone
- Level mode
- 30 levels from Dusty Trail to High Noon
- Quick Duel
- 4 or 5 letters, single or best of 3 and 5
- Streaks & freezes
- a freeze every seven days covers a missed one
- Scouts
- reveal a letter when you’re stuck, at a cost
- Shot clock
- 20, 30 or 60 seconds, or none at all
- Share card
- a spoiler-free grid of the whole duel
- Accessible
- colourblind cards, reduced motion, dark mode
Play it today
Download the APK on your Android phone and open it. The first time, your phone asks you to allow installs from your browser. Not in the app stores yet.