Knotwords

Noodlecake

In-app purchases

About this game

Knotwords is a minimal and elegant logic puzzle — with words.

The rules are simple: arrange the letters in each section so every word is valid, across and down.

Each puzzle may seem difficult at first — but like all my favorite newspaper puzzles, it gets easier as you progress. Each step guides you naturally towards the solution.

This is the kind of game I've been trying to make my whole career — I'm amazed Jack and I discovered this design. We hope you like it.

Ratings and reviews

Love the gameplay, got far ahead from what I expected but have a level I want to reset, went into the drop-down menu to restart and no matter how many times I hit restart and confirm it won't do it. I don't want to have to go back and delete all the letters already on the board. Little inconvenience but overall pleasant gameplay EDIT: Lowered from 3 to 2 stars. only 20 puzzles then $12 bucks is too expensive for me. Only lets you play puzzle of the day after that.

This game is super fun and engaging. Sometimes puzzles take less than 30 seconds and then others I come back to multiple times. 3 star rating because the user interface is EXCRUCIATINGLY slow! Sometimes I just set my phone down and let it finish processing whatever is happening in the background. I will finish a puzzle and then just wait for the menu animation to resolve so I can click the "Done" button. Pixel 8 Pro, by the way. Don't know what I'm waiting for! Please optimize this app!

Puzzles themselves are pretty fun and can be challenging sometimes. Performance of the app itself is quite frankly terrible. I haven't been playing for even a year but the amount of freezing and loading times (whenever trying to navigate menus or open a game) have only gotten worse the more I've played, and now I can't even play without making sure to close all my background apps first (if I have Spotify open in the background, Spotify will crash within 3 minutes nowadays.)

What’s new

Bug fixes and performance improvements.