SORTS - Set the type. Print the story.
A word game reimagined as a Victorian print shop. Trace words across a grid of movable type, set off colour-chain cascades, and print your way through a shelf of beautiful books.
On iPhone and iPad.
Every letter is a piece of type. Every level is a page you print.
Swipe your finger across touching letters to trace a word - it scores the moment you lift off. Blocks burst, the board cascades, and matching colours ignite into chains. Easy to pick up in a second; deep enough to keep pulling pages for months.
There are no strikes and no penalties. A word that isn’t a word simply does nothing, so you can always try.
Put two phones on a table and duel
The thing we’re proudest of only works with someone sitting next to you.
Open a duel, and the other person’s phone finds it over the local wireless connection. A countdown runs on both screens, then you race the same board for sixty seconds with a live scoreboard between you. No account, no server, no invite link, no internet - just two phones in the same room.
It’s free for everyone. Nothing about it sits behind a purchase.
What’s inside
Illustrated books - 200 hand-tuned levels across two illustrated books, each a story told in four chapters sealed behind page-gates you earn open.
Trace and cascade - a one-thumb mechanic with real depth. Land a word on a matching cluster and set off a chain reaction of bursting colour.
A hand-drawn journey - the level map is a pencilled trail that inks itself in as you climb, with marginalia drawn along the way.
A daily edition - a fresh printed puzzle every day, plus an endless mode for when you just want one more run.
Reading guilds - team up, pool your weekly word scores toward a shared goal, and climb the Guild League. No friends yet? Join an open guild in one tap. Your guild’s library quietly collects the finest words anyone in it has ever found.
A Type Case to collect - movable-type avatar styles, printer’s pressmarks, inks and earned titles. A case of keepsakes that shows off how you play.
Widgets - guild progress, friends’ activity and today’s puzzle on your Home and Lock Screen.
Crafted, not stock - hand-engraved illustrations and real letterpress typography on every screen. No ads. No third-party tracking. Everything on your device.
A word about words
Most word games ship the Scrabble tournament list, which is why you can “win” with CWM, QAT and EAUX. We threw it out and hand-curated a 94,000-word dictionary graded by how ordinary a word actually is, then split it in two: the board only ever plants words you’d recognise, but any real word you spell still scores. You’re never told a word you know isn’t a word.
Every level’s three-page target is set by a bot playing that exact board, not by a designer guessing.
The Pressroom Pass
For readers who want the run of the whole press - an optional membership, monthly or annual.
Unlimited Endless mode
Double coins from everything you play
Every tile block and avatar ink
All Pass titles
A starter booster bundle
25 coins a day
SORTS is free to play with no ads. Optional coin packs and the Pressroom Pass help support the game; your progress always stays on your device.
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