Pathagram: Word Path Puzzle

The letters of a hidden word lie along a winding path through the grid. Trace that path with your finger to spell it. Up, down, left or right. Never diagonally, and never the same square twice. Simple to learn, and surprisingly hard to put down. Part anagram, part maze, part word search: Pathagram is a word puzzle that makes you think about where the letters are as well as what they spell. HOW TO PLAY • Swipe from letter to letter to trace the word • Slide back onto the last letter to undo a step • Spell the hidden word to solve the puzzle and earn coins 13 LEVELS OF CHALLENGE • Level 1: only the word's own letters are on the grid. You can see the shape of the path; work out the order. • Level 2: four decoy letters join the grid, but you start on the gold square. • Level 3: every square holds a letter. Find the one route that spells the word. Then the twist: one letter hides behind a ?. • Hidden vowel: one of the vowels is the ? • Hidden letter: any letter after the first could be the ? • Double bluff: two ?s on the grid, and only one is real • Hidden start: the very first letter is the ? Trace any real word through the ? and it counts. Each new level unlocks as you play, with a quick guided tour the first time you meet something new. DAILY SPECIAL AND LEADERBOARD A nine-letter word on a bigger 5×5 grid, new every day and the same grid for every player. Solve it and see straight away where you came: the clock runs from opening the puzzle to solving it, and each hint adds 30 seconds. Climb the daily and weekly leaderboards, share your place with friends, and build a streak. Away for the weekend? A streak freeze, bought with coins, covers a missed day. BLITZ Two minutes. How many words can you trace? Words come one after another, with no hints, just a skip that costs ten seconds. Your best game of the day goes on its own leaderboard. BOUNTY WORDS Spot a different real word along the way and it becomes a bounty: it goes in your log and pays extra coins. The puzzle carries on until you find the word it was hiding. HINTS YOU EARN Stuck? Spend coins to reveal the next letter, placed straight onto the grid. Each letter costs more than the last, so a hint is a real decision rather than a shortcut. 19 ACHIEVEMENTS AND YOUR STATS From your first solve to a podium finish, a full week of dailies, a lightning Blitz and a word through the ? that even we didn't see coming. Your statistics keep your best times, records and a calendar of your play. WHY YOU'LL LIKE IT • Quick rounds, ideal for a coffee break or the commute • Thousands of puzzles: over 4,000 words, each with hundreds of possible paths • Learn what every word means once you've solved it • Family-friendly word list • Plays offline, with no account or sign-up (the leaderboard needs a connection) • British English spellings throughout: COLOUR, not COLOR • Light and dark themes that follow your phone Moving to a new phone? Export a transfer code in Settings and paste it on the new one. Your progress merges, so nothing is lost. Word lists derived from SCOWL, © Kevin Atkinson and contributors.