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Granny Wordsmith

byDiderisoft LLC
A gust shakes the apples loose. Grab your pole, spell fast, and save the harvest before it hits the ground.
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Status
BETA
Launch
TBA
Visuals
Cartoon
Platforms
iOS
Mobile
Price
FreeADS · IN APP PURCHASE · SUBSCRIPTION
Players
SingleSolo
Rating
3+Age rating

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Game Description

Spell before the apples hit the ground 🍎

Granny's apples are falling, and every apple has a letter on it. A gust shakes a batch loose from the tree: pick them with your pole, line the letters up into a word, and send it off. Short words go in Granny's basket. Words of four letters or more bake a pie. 🥧

The apples fall slowly enough to think, but not forever. Anything that reaches the ground rots.

▶ Play free in your browser: https://grannywordsmith.com/play 📱 Join the iOS beta: https://testflight.apple.com/join/8F8R5wpu


🌳 Granny's Pick of the Day

Three new trees every day, the same for everyone: Sweet, Mild and Tart, easiest to hardest. Pick a whole tree clean in as few words as you can. Granny clears every tree herself, so beat her word count or her best score, then share your day without giving the words away.

🧺 Orchard after orchard of levels

Four gusts a level and three stars to earn, across eight hand-painted orchards: Morning, Meadow, Sunset, Moonlit, Autumn, Frosty, Blossom and Harvest Moon, each with its own scenery, picnic table and light.

🕹️ The Daily Arcade

Endless gusts that keep getting faster, the same orchard for everyone each day, and a daily leaderboard. Every score on the board is verified by replaying the game, so no cheating.

💌 Challenge a friend

Plant a tree from your own secret words and send it to a friend. Can they pick it clean?


Features

  • Lettered apples that fall in gusts: pick, spell, bake
  • Three daily trees, the same for every player, with a spoiler-free share card
  • Levels across eight orchards, with stars to earn
  • Daily Arcade with an endless, speeding-up mode and a leaderboard
  • Challenge friends with trees planted from your own words
  • Apple streaks, achievements and monthly pie ribbons
  • Pause anytime: a level or Arcade run keeps for 10 minutes
  • Plays one-handed, with a left-handed mode

Made by Diderisoft, a one-person studio in Brooklyn.

AI Disclosure

The game concept is original and was hand coded long before AI coding tools existed. I started building it in 2015 as Laser Text, a word game in space, and wrote two full playable versions by hand between 2015 and 2018 (multiplayer, leaderboard, accounts). In 2026 I rebuilt it as Granny Wordsmith. The core rules, design and creative direction are mine, carried over from that original prototype. I used AI as a tool for parts of the rebuild: - Code: written with an AI coding assistant (Claude) under my direction. I designed, reviewed, tested and played every change. - Art: the illustrations (Granny, apples, orchard backgrounds) were made with AI image generation, then picked, edited and assembled by me. - Music: generated with Suno. All game design, word rules, puzzles and level tuning are my own.


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