About Dev Puzzle

Dev Puzzle is a free daily word puzzle game inspired by software development, game design, and the coding community. It is built in the spirit of classic word games like Wordle, with one twist: every hidden word is a real term from programming, computer science, or game-dev culture.

Two new puzzles drop every day — one in the morning and one in the afternoon — across three difficulty tiers (Easy, Medium, and Hard). The same word goes out to everyone playing the same tier on the same day, so you can compare results with friends or just enjoy a quiet five-minute habit.

Why this game exists

There are dozens of Wordle clones at this point, and almost none of them are tuned for the kind of vocabulary developers actually use. Pulling from a generic English word list means the answers are usually domestic, everyday words. Fine for a coffee break, but they don’t feel on-brand for engineers.

Dev Puzzle changes that. The word lists are curated by hand to contain real technical terminology — STACK, FUNCTION, POLYMORPHISM, RECURSION, and about three hundred more.

Who this is for

Dev Puzzle is built for working software engineers, computer-science students, people learning to code, and anyone who likes the intersection of language games and technical vocabulary.

How the game is built

The site is a Next.js application styled with Tailwind CSS, deployed on Vercel. The daily word is chosen by a scheduled Firebase Cloud Function that runs twice a day, picks a fresh word from the curated lists (filtering out anything used in the last 30 days so puzzles don’t repeat), and writes it to Firestore.

You can follow development progress on the devlog.

Free, ad-supported, no signup

The game is 100% free to play and supported by non-intrusive Google ads to help cover hosting and ongoing development. Dev Puzzle does not require an account or collect personal information — your progress is stored locally in your browser.

For details on how data is handled, see the privacy policy. For details on how the game itself works, see the instructions or the programming glossary.

Contact and feedback

If you have feedback, ideas, or just want to say hi, email support@insigght.digital. Bug reports, word suggestions, and design feedback are all welcome.