A word is hiding. Type any real word and press Grow. Every letter gives you a clue.
- ✓Green with a check: right letter, right spot. It is planted.
- ↻Yellow with a circle arrow: right letter, but it belongs somewhere else.
- ·Grey with a dot: that letter is resting. It is not in the word.
You cannot lose
Stuck? After three tries you can ask for a clue, then a free letter. If the word still gets away, WordSprout shows you what it was and what it means, and you plant another one.
Word sizes, your garden, and taking turns
Three sizes
Sprout is four letters and gentle. Grower is five letters everyone knows. Wild is five letters that are trickier, good for grown-ups too.
Your garden
Every word you grow adds a flower to the strip near the top. It is only for this sitting. Close the page and the garden starts empty again. Nothing is counted from one day to the next, on purpose.
Taking turns
Tap the two-people button and pass one device back and forth. You are on the same team, growing one word together.
For parents: WordSprout runs entirely on this device and never sends anything anywhere. There are no ads, no purchases, no accounts, no streaks, no daily limit, and no timer nudging anyone to come back. Play one word or twenty, then close it.