Guess the WORD in 6 tries.
Words are spelled in Quikscript — an alphabet where every letter is one sound. Each guess must be a real word that is exactly 5 Quikscript letters long. Hit enter to submit.
Because Quikscript spells sounds rather than English letters, word lengths shift: BECAUSE is 7 English letters but only 5 in Quikscript.
Examples
The keyboard follows FriedOrange’s Quikscript layout. Each key carries two different letters — the small one above is what you get with Shift. A shifted key is a separate letter, not a capital: shift-t gives th, not a capital T.
Hold Shift (or tap the Shift key) and the shifted letters light up so you can see what you are about to type. Spell what the word sounds like, not how English writes it.
Spellings follow FriedOrange’s Quikscript books. Accents differ about vowels, so close variants are accepted too — o or aw in ACROSS will both be let through.
A new puzzle is available each day.
Wrong word, odd spelling, or a guess that should have been accepted? Describe it — the report includes the puzzle and your guesses.
Everything this game is built on comes from FriedOrange’s pages. Links open in a new tab.
Practice words never affect your statistics.
Quikscript (the Read Alphabet) was designed by Kingsley Read in 1966 as a faster successor to the Shavian alphabet. Type face: Quintessence by Brad Neil, used under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Pronunciations from the Quikscript dictionary (Frog Orbits PUA encoding).