Word Games
The Word-Hoard
A dead lexicographer sealed five words in a slip-drawer, each behind a fixed ladder of six clues; the Reader turns them up one at a time and you name the word on as few as you can.
The Word-Hoard is a free word game you play inside ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. A sealed word-deduction game: five hidden words, six fixed clues each, and an AI that can only read them out. Solo, 10–20m a run. No signup and no app — open it in your assistant, or paste the play prompt anywhere else.
- Players
- 1
- Length
- 10–20m
- Rating
- All ages
- Version
- 1.1.0
Works with ChatGPT · Claude · Gemini. Free, no signup.
Opens your assistant with the game loaded. ChatGPT usually runs it straight away; Claude waits for you to press send. Same link on your phone as on your desktop. Playing in Gemini? Tap Copy the play prompt and paste it into a new chat. What works where.
No web access, or want it as an installed app?
The game card is the entire game — every scene, rule and answer, about 11k characters. Paste it when your assistant can't browse the web. The Word-Hoard is the exception: its answers stay in a sealed file on this site, so this card wants a chat that can open a link — pasting them in yourself would spoil it. The Skill installs The Word-Hoard into Claude on any plan: download it, then turn on code execution under Settings → Capabilities and add it at Customize → Skills → + → Upload a skill.
How to start
- Open your AI. Start a new chat in ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. No paid plan required.
- Paste the card. The Reader loads the full card and its sealed script, reads you the SHA-256 commitment published before release, then turns up the first clue.
- Read the ladder. Take the clues one at a time and name each word on as few as you can — fewer clues, more points.
- Verify the seal. After the run, hash the revealed words to confirm none of them moved.
Questions
- Won't the AI just make up clues or move the word when I get close?
- No. All five words and every clue were written and sealed under a SHA-256 hash before release; the Reader fetches that sealed list from aigamecards.com and reads from it. The AI turns up the clues in a fixed order and checks your guess against the locked word. It cannot add a clue, change a word, or hand you the answer, and you rebuild the hash from the reveal afterward to prove nothing moved.
- Is the AI actually good at running a word game?
- Yes, because it is not being creative. Each word already has its clue ladder — an oblique hint, definition, etymology, wordplay, letter count, and example sentence — printed on the card. The AI only turns up the next clue and compares your guess to the fixed answer, so there is nothing to improvise and nothing for it to get wrong.
- How does scoring work, and how long is a game?
- About ten to twenty minutes for five words. You may guess after any clue; the fewer clues showing when you get it, the more the round is worth, up to twenty points each and a hundred in all. Guessing on the third clue every time is par, sixty.
- What kind of words are they, and can I get stuck?
- Real English nouns and adjectives, no proper names or phrases. Every word has a six-clue ladder that runs from an oblique hint down to a sentence with the word blanked out, so a later clue almost always gets you there; a missed word simply scores zero and the game names it before moving on.
- Does the chat have to be able to open a link?
- Yes, and this is the one card that truly needs it. The Reader fetches the sealed word list from aigamecards.com; pasting it in yourself would hand you all five answers before the first clue. ChatGPT opens links out of the box; in Claude, switch web search on first; in Gemini, ask it to open the link before you start. No account and no paid plan either way, and verifying the seal afterward takes any SHA-256 tool.