Lily Hopper: Word Ladder

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About this game

Lily Hopper is a daily word-ladder race. A frog hops from one word to another one letter at a time — every hop a real word — across lily pads laid out as two routes, a short risky one and a long safe one, against the clock.

TODAY'S POND
One pond a day, and everyone gets the same one. Take the shortcut through rarer words or the steady route through safer ones — or leave the pads altogether, because any real word is a legal hop. A hops-to-go counter tells you whether a hop helped without giving anything away, and if you land in a dead end, hop back.

PRACTICE POND
Endless ponds, just for fun, when today's is done.

HINTS FROM THE DRAGONFLY
Stuck? Three tiers of hint: which letter to change, which letter to use, or the whole word. The first one is free.

A POND THAT GROWS
Every pond you cross earns XP. Level up and your own pond fills in — seventeen things to unlock at set levels, from cattails to a lantern, each with its own idle motion.

KEEP THE STREAK
A calendar of every pond you've crossed, your best time, and how often you found the best route. Share the shape of your run — the hops and the time, never the words — so friends can race the same pond.

PLAY GAMES
Sign in to rank on today's board, best streak and total XP, and to earn twelve achievements. Optional — the game is the same without it.

Free, no accounts, playable offline (ads and Play Games need a connection). Ad-supported: an ad at launch, one between practice ponds, and optional rewarded video for the bigger hints — never before or during today's pond, and never required to play. Reminders are local and opt-in.

A word ladder is Lewis Carroll's Doublets (1879): change one letter at a time, every step a real word. There is no hidden answer and no coloured tiles — both ends of the ladder are in view, and the puzzle is the path between them.
A daily word-ladder race. Change one letter a hop — every hop a real word.
Updated on
Sep 12, 2026

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  • This app may share these data types with third parties
    Location, App activity, and Device or other IDs
  • This app may collect these data types
    Location, Personal info and 3 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • Data can’t be deleted

What’s new

Lily Hopper 1.0, the first release.
A daily word-ladder race: change one letter a hop, every hop a real word, two routes across the pond, against the clock. Practice ponds, hints from the dragonfly, a pond that grows as you level up, streaks, and Play Games leaderboards and achievements.
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Everyone
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About the developer
Fourth Funnel Games LLC
support@fourthfunnelgames.com
7 Daniel Dr Burlington, MA 01803-2701 United States
+1 781-323-9683

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