Crosswold

The idea

Crosswords are usually played alone, on a flat screen. Crosswold is built to be played together: up to four players race for every word on the same board, inside a 3D arena.

What we built

A friends table, invite-code 1v1 duels with an Elo rating, a daily board everyone shares, solo play, and practice against Debie. Ten arenas unlock as the trophies come in.

There is a Workshop too: an editor for making your own crossword, which connects the words, validates the board and previews it before it is published.

Two languages, two games

A crossword cannot be translated in place, because its answers are the language. So Indonesian and English each have their own clue bank and their own boards, not just a swapped interface.

Fair by design

Answers, timers and match results live on the server, not on the player's phone. A rating settles once per duel, and results played with hints are recorded separately.