VWLSS
say it “vowel-less”
A word game for the incurably curious.
One category, eight clues, every vowel gone.
Five minutes, six days a week.
available for iPhone
How to play
Capital Cities
BJNG.
Read the consonants. Look at the category. You’ll say Beijing before you mean to.
That’s the game.
The category does the work
Without it, MNT FJ is five letters and a guess. With it, you can almost see the snow.
Shakespeare Plays. Jazz Standards. Periodic Elements. The category narrows the field to a few dozen possibilities. From there, your memory is faster than any dictionary.
Eight a day. That’s the deal.
A new Daily Challenge arrives six mornings a week — Monday through Saturday.
Eight clues, one category.
Long enough to wake your brain up; short enough to fit between a coffee and a meeting.
Type your answer in, or just say it out loud.
A year, laid out like a garden
Every finished challenge becomes an eight-petal flower — one petal per clue.
Scroll back through your history and you find a slow drift of flowers and little traces you left behind.
It isn’t a streak counter. It’s a record of showing up.
Miss a day? The flowers that are already there don’t wilt.
The garden keeps growing.
A Weekly Bonus Challenge
Sundays get their own puzzle — a trickier category, fewer mercies in the clues, a bigger flower waiting at the end.
The Sunday Bonus is part of Garden Pass, the app’s optional subscription. A tougher puzzle for those who want one more challenge before the week begins again.
Back catalog
Every Daily Challenge and Sunday Bonus stays on the path. The longer VWLSS runs, the more flowers there are waiting to be planted.
Garden Pass opens the whole catalog. Drop into any unplayed day — last Tuesday, the Sunday you couldn’t sit down to, a flower from before you started showing up — and play it.
The garden doesn’t have to be planted in order.
Tomorrow
The next challenge is already on the path.
What it isn’t
- No accounts. Your history lives on your phone.
- No ads. Ever.
- No notification spam. If you turn them on, notifications come only when there’s a new challenge.
- No spelling traps. Caps, dashes, accents, “is this one word or two” — if you know it, it counts.
Try it
You’ll know within one puzzle whether it’s for you.
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