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.
- Players
- 1
- Length
- 10–20m
- Ages
- All ages
- Version
- 2.0.0
- Updated
Works with ChatGPT · Claude · Gemini. Free, no signup.
Opens ChatGPT or Claude with the play prompt ready; press send if it hasn't started. Same link on your phone as on your desktop. Another app? Copy the play prompt into it. This game needs a chat that can open links: its answers stay in a sealed file on this site. What works where.
No web access, or want it as an installed app?
The game card is every rule of the game, about 11k characters, but not its answers: those stay in a sealed file on this site, so even pasted, The Word-Hoard needs a chat that can open a link. Pasting the answers 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.
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.
How to start
- Open it in your AI. Tap Open in ChatGPT or Open in Claude, and press send, or paste the play prompt into any assistant that can open links. No paid plan required.
- The game loads. 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, a scene where the word belongs, its origin, its definition, its letter count, and an 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. The Reader fetches the sealed word list from aigamecards.com; pasting it in yourself would hand you all five answers before the first clue. Not every app can, and it changes; the compatibility page at aigamecards.com/launch-matrix shows which ones currently do. No account beyond the chat app you already use and no paid plan either way, and the seal is checked afterward at aigamecards.com/verify, in your browser.
- Has the drawer changed since it was released?
- Once. On 28 September 2026 the Word-Hoard was re-sealed as a second edition (v2.0.0) with five new words and ladders that keep the definition back until the fourth clue, because the first edition's words were famous enough to fall on the first or second clue. The first edition's seal (v1.1.0) still verifies at /verify.