About

Who makes Unsaid

Unsaid is made by Jason Frites and Mike Ory at Findmory Development, an independent studio. We design, build and run the game ourselves, and we write the word pages on this site.

The game

Unsaid is a word game where letters fall into a board seven columns wide. Spell a word of three letters or more across or down and it clears. It runs on iOS and Android, and the Daily also plays in a browser at unsaidgame.app/play with no account. Every rule and every number is on the rules page.

Where the words come from

The dictionary has about 135,000 words of three to ten letters. It starts from ENABLE, a public domain word list long used by word game makers, and adds newer everyday words from SCOWL and the Wordnik word list. We remove slurs and vulgar words by hand, and we keep our own short lists of words to add or block. The dictionary can be updated without an app update, so a missing word can be fixed quickly.

The word of the day comes from a separate fixed list of 2,220 words of four to six letters, all drawn from the same dictionary. The list is set in advance and never reordered, so every device knows the day's word without asking a server, and no one can change a past day.

Why the Daily is the same everywhere

The letters for the Daily come from the calendar date. Every copy of the game turns that date into the same sequence of letters, so two players in different countries get the same board, even offline. The Daily starts at midnight where you are, which is why word pages only appear once a day has ended in every time zone.

How we write the word pages

Each word of the day page is written by us: a plain definition, where the word comes from, a note worth knowing, and a tip for word games. The anagrams, hooks and neighboring words on each page are checked against the game's dictionary. We check definitions against standard dictionaries before a page goes up. If you spot a mistake, tell us and we will fix it.

Credits

Type is set in Zilla Slab (Mozilla Foundation) and IBM Plex Sans (IBM), both under the SIL Open Font License. Word lists are credited in the app under Settings, About, Acknowledgements.