Word Games
The Word-Hoard
A dead lexicographer sealed five words in a slip-drawer, each behind a fixed ladder of six clues; the AI shows them one at a time and you name the word on as few as you can.
- Players
- 1
- Length
- 10–20 min
- Rated
- All ages
- Version
- 3.0.0
- Updated
Works with ChatGPT · Claude. 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.
Want it as an installed app, or the card itself?
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 sealed word-guessing game: five hidden words, six fixed clues each, and an AI that can only read them out. Solo, 10–20 min a run, free to play inside ChatGPT or Claude. No signup and nothing to install: open it in your assistant, or paste the play prompt into any chat that can open links.
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 AI loads the card, fetches the sealed word list from this site, reads you its SHA-256 hash, published before release, then shows 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, paste the revealed answer into aigamecards.com/verify, which recomputes the hash in your browser.
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 AI 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 afterwards to prove nothing moved.
- Is the AI actually good at running a word game?
- Yes. Each word comes with its six clues already written: an oblique hint, a scene where the word belongs, its origin, its definition, its letter count and an example sentence, all in the sealed file the AI opens at the start. It only shows the next clue and compares your guess to the fixed answer, so there is nothing for it to improvise.
- 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 AI fetches the sealed word list from aigamecards.com; pasting it in yourself would hand you all five answers before the first clue. ChatGPT opens it; aigamecards.com/launch-matrix shows which other apps do. No account beyond the chat app you already use and no paid plan either way, and the seal is checked afterwards at aigamecards.com/verify, in your browser.