Our game · Coming to the App Store and Google Play
Put the kettle on.
Every day brings a mini crossword and a ring of letters underneath. Run your thumb through the letters to spell a word. If it is in the grid it drops into place. If it is any other real word it goes into the Word Jar for bonus coins. Free with gentle ads, or £2.99 once to remove them.
- 400
- daily crosswords, the same for everyone, growing from 5×5 to 9×9
- 0
- clues to decode and no keyboard. Every word is in the ring
- £2.99
- once to remove ads, forever, for the whole family
A crossword does not need clues if the letters are right there.
The generator behind it is a small offline crossword compiler. It picks a ring of letters from a hand-written theme list, the bakery, the canal, garden birds, finds every real word those letters spell, and interlocks a handful into a proper grid where every word crosses another.
No clues, no keyboard
Every word in the grid can be spelled from the ring, and the grid’s shape does the rest. Shuffle for fresh eyes, or reveal a letter if you are stuck.
A tea timer that never fails you
A pot steeps while you play. It never ends a puzzle, it only decides the third star, so you can take as long as you like and still finish.
Fill the Word Jar
Any real word the ring can spell counts, kept with how many times you have found it. Seven letters are rare and eight are gilded.
Days with a twist
A Speed Round where coins count double, One Vowel Only, Themed Thursday, Silent Letters, and a nine-by-nine Big Crossword every Sunday.
How it is built
Fully native, small, and honest about money: one purchase, no subscriptions, no ads while you are solving.
Back to all work- Built twice, natively: Swift and SwiftUI on iPhone, Kotlin and Jetpack Compose on Android
- No game engine either way. On Android that means a small scene graph of our own, shared across every game
- A small offline crossword compiler that builds all 400 days ahead of time
- Seeded generation, so the puzzles rebuild byte for byte and everyone gets the same day
- A parity test that compiles the Swift rules and checks the Kotlin ones match, day by day
- Words validated against the public-domain ENABLE list
- StoreKit 2 and Play Billing for the single one-off purchase
- Plays offline, saves on the device, keeps your podcast running
Questions people ask
- What kind of game is Clue & Cuppa?
- A cosy daily word puzzle for iPhone, iPad and Android. Each day is a mini crossword with a ring of letters underneath. You swipe through the letters to spell the grid words, and any other real word earns bonus coins. A puzzle takes two to six minutes.
- Are there clues to solve?
- No, and there is no keyboard either. Every word in the grid can be spelled from the letters in the ring, so the puzzle is in seeing the words rather than decoding a clue.
- What happens when the tea goes cold?
- Nothing bad. The pot only decides whether you earn the third star. The puzzle waits as long as you want it to.
- Is Clue & Cuppa free?
- Yes. It is free with ads between puzzles, never during one. A single £2.99 purchase removes every ad forever, makes the extra puzzles free and adds three hints a day.
- When is it out?
- Clue & Cuppa is finished and heading to the App Store and Google Play. Email [email protected] if you want to hear when it lands.