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Added a word to the dictionary by hand today because the game kept rejecting one my mom actually uses in real sentences. REDELIVER wasn't in there. She was right, as always.

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 7h

BUSY is a completely good word and it still goes home first against OBVIOUSLY sitting right there on the same rack. what's the best word you've ever lost with

Illustration of a Word King round. Rack: L O Y I V O U B S. Found words from longest to shortest: OBVIOUSLY, OBVIOUS, LOUSY, BUSY. BUSY, the shortest, is struck through and marked out.

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 20h

the ladder generator kept offering AYE to LITERALLY in four jumps and I had to go double check EARLY was a legitimate step and not my code just being optimistic. it checks out

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 04/10/2026

built this rack at my desk and could only find ATTENTION on the fourth pass, TENANT and NATION both jumped the line first and felt done

Word King practice rack card. Nine letter tiles: T I E A N T O N T. Headline: Longest word in 30 seconds? There is a nine in here.

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 04/10/2026

RHYTHM has zero vowels if you don't count the Y, and it still spells faster than words half its length. the Y is doing unpaid overtime in that one.

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 03/10/2026

SUREONLOC. I found COUNSEL in about four seconds and almost called it a day. It is not the nine.

Word King practice rack card. Nine letter tiles: S U R E O N L O C. Headline: Longest word in 30 seconds? There is a nine in here.

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 03/10/2026

Tested a round with my wifi off by accident. Thirty seconds hit zero and nothing happened, no reveal, no eliminated word, just a frozen rack. Dead silence turns out to be a much worse way to lose than actually losing.

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 03/10/2026

LEAST, SLATE, STALE, same five letters stacked three different ways. I always find STEAL last, like my brain refuses to consider stealing until every honest option is used up.

Anagram card. The words LEAST, SLATE, STALE are shown in letter tiles, followed by 1 blank row for another word made of the same 5 letters.

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 02/10/2026

aa is a real two letter word. it's a type of jagged lava rock, not a stutter. dictionaries have been quietly protecting this one for Scrabble players for a century

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 02/10/2026

made this one for the pinterest pile. the spinning countdown makes the arena look more dramatic than the actual thirty seconds feels. www.pinterest.com/pin/1145392117762…

Word King arena poster with an oversized 30 and the headline Beat the round clock. Nine practice tiles show T H N I G A R O E. Text says 30 seconds. Nine letters and Play free.

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 02/10/2026

Spent longer picking the countdown beep than I spent writing the actual scoring logic. Priorities, apparently.

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 01/10/2026

grass is a completely fine word. it still goes home first against strangers on the same rack. shortest loses regardless of how correct it is.

Illustration of a Word King round. Rack: S R S R N T A G E. Found words from longest to shortest: STRANGERS, STRANGER, STRANGE, ARREST, GRASS. GRASS, the shortest, is struck through and marked out.

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 01/10/2026

There's a word for the itch to say something out loud right after you type it, subvocalizing. Half of testing this game is just muttering nine letters at my keyboard like it'll conjure a tenth.

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 30/09/2026

Practice rack, no clock running. Reply with your longest before you scroll past it.

Word King practice rack card. Nine letter tiles: G S H N I F I N I. Headline: Longest word in 30 seconds? There is a nine in here.

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 30/09/2026

Spent twenty minutes convinced my own dictionary had a bug because it rejected GNAWED. It does not have a bug. I have never once in my life correctly recalled how many Ds are in that word.

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 29/09/2026

First pass through this rack I kept landing on AUTHOR and just stopping, like extending it any further was somebody else's problem. It isn't.

Word King practice rack card. Nine letter tiles: P A H U A T O R G. Headline: Longest word in 30 seconds? There is a nine in here.

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 29/09/2026

someone played QUEASY on a full six letter rack tonight and then had to sit there and watch two other racks top it before the buzzer. building something that good and still going home first might be the worst feeling this game has to offer

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 28/09/2026

stared at WESSSENTI long enough to see WITNESS four separate times before WITNESSES finally showed up and made every one of them look lazy

Word King practice rack card. Nine letter tiles: W E S S S E N T I. Headline: Longest word in 30 seconds? There is a nine in here.

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 28/09/2026

AXE is a completely legal three letter word and it still gets you the group side eye in elimination, like everyone secretly agreed four letters was the honor system

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 28/09/2026

when the clock hits five seconds, are you locking whatever you've got or still gambling on one more letter? I lock. every time. even when I shouldn't.

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 27/09/2026

watched a bot get eliminated tonight holding QI, a completely legal two letter word, because it refused to lock anything under four letters even with the buzzer going off. the bots have more pride than I do.

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 27/09/2026

started this one at SET, three letters, and climbed one rung at a time without ever swapping a tile. the top rung spends all nine. how far do you get before you're stuck?

Word ladder card. Words growing one rung at a time: SET, REST, STORE, DESTROY, then nine blank tiles for the final word that uses all nine letters.

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 27/09/2026

nine letters, and one of the words in here uses every one of them. I found it on my second squint, which is one squint more than I wanted to spend

Word King practice rack card. Nine letter tiles: E O C S I N T U N. Headline: Longest word in 30 seconds? There is a nine in here.

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 26/09/2026

funny thing about a nine letter rack: the longest word is almost never the one you spot first. your eyes grab a tidy five and then refuse to let go of it

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 26/09/2026

been making practice racks for Pinterest and this is my favorite so far. RAT, RAIN, RATING, all out of G E L A T I N R S. there is a nine-letter word in there and it took me an embarrassing while www.pinterest.com/pin/1145392117762…

Word King word-building poster displaying RAT, RAIN and RATING in growing steps. Nine practice tiles show G E L A T I N R S. Text invites you to keep looking for longer words and Play free.

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 26/09/2026

the dictionary in my game accepted 'qi' but refused a word I was completely sure about, and I spent twenty minutes testing whether I was the one who was wrong. I was. it is still annoying

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 25/09/2026

LEAST, SLATE, STALE. same five letters, and the card says one more is hiding, which is a lie. I count at least three. how many can you get?

Word King anagram card on a mustard background. Headline: Three words. One more hiding. Letter tiles spell LEAST, SLATE and STALE, followed by a row of five blank tiles. Caption: Same 5 letters every time. What fills the blank?

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 25/09/2026

Word people: which dictionary is your supreme court? Every group eventually swears loyalty to one, the Scrabble list, Merriam-Webster, whatever the app accepts, and jurisdiction disputes have ended real friendships. Whose rulings do you live under, and what word made you pick a side?

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Calculover @thecalculover.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A 20% increase followed by a 20% decrease doesn’t get you back to the start: 100 → 120 → 96 Same percentage. Different starting value. We’re Calculover: free calculators and clear explanations for everyday math. More useful examples coming here.

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 25/09/2026

Question for anagram people: do you shuffle the letters or make your eyes do the work? I am a compulsive shuffler even knowing it costs me seconds, because a fresh arrangement feels like new information when it is the same tiles lying to me in a different order. Team shuffle or team stare?

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 24/09/2026

Genuine question for daily-puzzle people: what time of day is your word brain actually at its best? Mine peaks about twenty minutes after coffee and is legally dead by 10pm, yet 10pm is exactly when I choose to play ranked rounds. When do you do your best solving?

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 24/09/2026

Word people: what is a word you only know because one specific person would not stop saying it? Half of everyone's vocabulary is inherited like furniture. Mine is 'skulduggery', on permanent loan from a relative who applied it to card games and weather alike. Who donated yours?

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 23/09/2026

Dev note: the round took a weekend to build. The reveal screen took months. Ten words, one eliminated, and every player has to find their own line and the winner's in one glance while the next rack is already loading. Free in a browser: wordking.web.app/?utm_source=bluesk…

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 23/09/2026

Question for rack players: have you ever used every letter, the full nine in one word? It is the rarest sight in the game. The reveal goes quiet for a second while everyone recalibrates what was possible in that rack. If you have done it, this is your moment to brag.

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 22/09/2026

Competitive word players: who in your life refuses to play against you anymore? Every serious word person eventually gets exiled from the casual family game, usually over one specific incident nobody has forgotten. Mine involved a two-letter word and a very long silence. What got you banned?

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 22/09/2026

Theory: solo word puzzles train you to be correct. Multiplayer word games train you to be brave. A word you find alone is a fact. A word you lock while everyone else is still hunting the same nine letters is a bet.

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 21/09/2026

One rack, no chat. A Word King round still has a mood you can read like weather. Someone locks a word five seconds in and the whole room tightens. Nobody typed a thing to each other, but everyone heard it.

Word King live round screen showing a locked word during a countdown match.

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 21/09/2026

Word people, be honest: do you remember the words that eliminated you? I can still recite the exact word that knocked me out weeks ago, rack and all. Winning words evaporate by dinner. The one that ended you moves in and pays rent.

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 20/09/2026

Word players: does a word ever stop looking real if you stare at it too long? Mid-round I will type something completely ordinary, read it back, and become convinced I invented it. It was real. The clock did not care that I was right. What word has done this to you?

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 19/09/2026

Dev note: spent a day pulling names and places out of the Word King dictionary after a player caught a few hiding in there. Turns out a word list is opinions all the way down. Free in a browser: wordking.web.app/?utm_source=bluesk…

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 19/09/2026

Honest question for timed word players: when you lose, is it your brain or your thumbs? I know more words than I can type in thirty seconds, so half my losses are motor skills wearing a vocabulary costume. Which one is actually holding you back?

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 18/09/2026

Word players: what is your word that got away? The one you spotted a beat too late, or typed one letter short of the buzzer, and now think about at red lights. Mine was an easy eight I had no business missing and I will not be naming it. What word still haunts you?

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 18/09/2026

Dev note: Word King racks are not random. Each rack gets scored for how many real words are hiding in it and thrown back until it passes. So a rack that looks empty is not empty, it just hides better than you seek. Free in a browser: wordking.web.app/?utm_source=bluesk…

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 17/09/2026

The polite fiction of solo puzzles is that you only ever lose to the puzzle. Put real strangers on the same letters and suddenly your elimination has a name attached. Free in a browser tab if you want to test your grace: wordking.web.app/?utm_source=bluesk…

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 17/09/2026

Hot take: word games have gotten very polite. Everything is one gentle daily, a streak, and a share button. Word King is my rude counterproposal: one shared rack, thirty seconds, and somebody’s word does not make it. Free in a browser: wordking.web.app/?utm_source=bluesk…

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 16/09/2026

Closed the game for the night, started typing an email, and caught myself scanning the recipient’s name for a playable five. The match ends but apparently the rack comes home with you. Occupational hazard of building a game out of the alphabet.

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 16/09/2026

A full round is chaos, but the real game starts when it's down to the final two. Same nine letters, nobody left to hide behind, and you can practically feel the other person circling the same suffix you are. Shortest duel in word games, and somehow the longest thirty seconds of your day.

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 15/09/2026

Competitive word players: when a total beginner sits down against you, do you ease off or play full strength? I have heard both defended as the respectful option. Going easy is kind, going hard says I believe you can take it. Which school are you, and has it ever backfired?

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 15/09/2026

The hardest rack is not the one with a Q and no U. It is the one made entirely of friendly letters, where forty decent words raise their hands at once and the clock runs out while the vote is still being counted. Scarcity makes decisions. Abundance makes casualties.

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Word King @wordking.web.app · 14/09/2026

Word King is now on Jest! 9 letters, 30 seconds, and the shortest word goes home. Jump in and challenge your friends: jest.com/g/word-king

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