Anagraphs: An Anagram Game With a Twist

Anagraphs: An Anagram Game With a Twist

Christopher Cinq-Mars Jarvis · 2021 · Strategy, Solitaire, Spelling, Casual, Education

PC
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About Anagraphs: An Anagram Game With a Twist

A new twist on anagrams, Anagraphs is a free puzzle designed to challenge your linguistic and spatial skills.

Anagraphs extends the concept of anagrams by including letters that can be rotated to make other characters. In a typical anagram the letters can be re-arranged to form new words ("ma" and "am" for example) but in Anagraphs, the "m" character can be rotated to form a 'w' which allows for the word "aw" to be included.

Built with a specially designed font with several characters that can be rotated in such a way, Anagraphs is a challenging linguistic puzzle where you must optimize paths to earn stars used to unlock new levels. Anagraphs is a spiritual successor to the popular word game, Synonymy.

Anagraphs is free, with open source on GitHub. It was developed by Cinq-Mars Media, an educational non-profit with projects and games featured at E3, PAX and festivals worldwide.

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Jul 15, 2024
Listen, if you play a lot of word games, this is a pretty cool concept, and you might enjoy the game. The lexicon it uses it very strange though, at first I thought it used CEL (Common English Lexicon) but there are many common words that it does not acknowledge, and there are also some very strange CSW only words that are included. And while the concept is cool, even as an avid word gamer and Scrabble player, the game is a bit monotonous. The UI is very bad as well, as it seems the game was ported from a mobile game and not much effort was put into making it extremely user friendly. It took me way too long to figure out how to get to level 4 (you have to use the arrow keys), and there were many other just very odd UI decisions. Again, the concept is cool, if you like word games, you can give this a try, you might enjoy it for a half hour, but besides that its just okay, sadly.
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Not recommended Aug 23, 2021
Anagraphs is a free mobile app that's been ported to Steam. It's a simple word puzzle where you rotate letters around to make different words. While this is free to play, it's adware and contains advertising for other products. This obtrusive advertising is unacceptable on Steam, while it is apparently permitted by Valve, it doesn't fly. PC gamers spend thousands on cutting edge gaming rigs, and we don't do that so we can pretend that our rig is an iPhone, and get advertising shovelled into us like the little mobile piggies do. So while this is "free", it's not really. I can't recommend it.
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Recommended Mar 20, 2023
[h1]Before I played Anagraphs: An Anagram Game With a Twist, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]
1 found this helpful
Recommended Jul 29, 2021
[b]Anagraphs[/b] is a casual word game focused on finding anagrams. There is a literal twist, however, in that the game uses a specially designed font in which several letters are vertically symmetrical, meaning letters can be ‘twisted’ in order to create more letter options and therefore, more anagrams! Overall, Anagraphs is a nice word game to enjoy casually during a break but doesn’t have much to offer beyond what can be seen on the surface. The premise is interesting but only holds one’s attention for so long. If you like word games it may be worth a look, especially since it’s free, but I’d recommend playing on mobile over PC. [b]WANT TO KNOW MORE?[/b] My full review of this game, where I discuss game play, narrative and styling can be found on [url=https://indie-hive.com/anagraphs/]Indie Hive[/url].
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Recommended Apr 4, 2026
Great Game but look at that kitty, whoever pass by can pet it and give it a thumbs up. Have a nice day :3       />  フ       |  _  _ l       /` ミ_xノ      /      |     /  ヽ   ノ     │  | | |  / ̄|   | | |  | ( ̄ヽ__ヽ_)__)
Not recommended Dec 29, 2023
I played the tutorial and the first three levels. I had to click the edge of the screen to play Level 4. I could not figure out how to choose the next level. Finally, I left full screen and stretched the window across my two monitors. Lo and behold, I wasn't allowed to play Level 5, as I didn't have enough stars. This is just bad.

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