Spellie is 3 Weeks Old

It’s hard to believe it’s only been 3 weeks since we released Spellie to the world. David and I continue to make tweaks to the game. In the past 2 weeks, we’ve added new features and usability improvements, including:

Smarter hinting system
Ability to reset the puzzle so a friend or sibling can replay it
More fun when collecting emojis, with crisper Twemojis and notifications
About page with instructions on how to play
Larger text and a smarter layout, especially on phones and tablets
Support for older browsers, like Mobile Safari 12
First letter freebies for 4-letter medium puzzles
Better keyboard navigation

Full release notes

Usage

Spellie has seen consistent and steady user growth as word has spread

Spellie is 100% free from advertising and ad-trackers (which you can verify with Blacklight), but we do collect anonymized event data. This lets us figure out how many unique users we have, see which features are being used, detect bugs, and most importantly, it gives me a lot of charts to nerd out on. Yesterday we had over 10,000 individual users from 53 countries completing 26,000 puzzles 🎉.

Shout Outs

It has been gratifying to see the steady growth as the word spreads. We love hearing from parents, teachers, and kids from around the world 😍.

Mrs. DeCamp and the Grade 3s in New Jersey
Ms. Taylor and the Grade 3s in Ontario
Miss Groeller and her Grade 4s in Alberta
Mrs. Tuluch and her Grade 3/4s in Scotland (check out the hand-made Wordle puzzles she made with her kids)
Ms. Rischmueller and the Grade 5/6s in Australia
The Best Word Puzzles to Play as a Family – Cubby at Home
KiSS Radio with Tara Jean