Shabdle: Nepali Word Game

शब्दले — one Nepali word a day.

Every day there is a new Nepali word, the same word for everyone. You have six tries to find it. After each guess the tiles tell you how close you were, and a result you can share as an emoji grid.

BUILT FOR DEVANAGARI, NOT BORROWED FROM ENGLISH

Shabdle is played in aksharas — whole syllables like सा, न्छे or ग — not in single letters. A tile holds one akshara, the way Nepali is actually read.

And each tile is scored in two halves: the consonant and the vowel are judged separately. So a guess can tell you "the consonant is right, the vowel is wrong" — the kind of hint that makes a syllable-based word game solvable instead of a coin toss. A small bar under each letter scores the vowel on its own.

A DEVANAGARI KEYBOARD IS BUILT IN

No need to install a Nepali keyboard. Shabdle brings its own, with all 33 consonants, every vowel and every matra. Matra keys light up only when a consonant is waiting for one, so you always know what you can type next.

WHAT IS IN IT

• A new word every day, shared by every player
• Words of two, three or four aksharas
• Practice mode — unlimited extra words once you have played the day's puzzle, and they never touch your streak or your stats
• A hint after three guesses, if the day is not going your way
• Hard mode: revealed hints must be reused in later guesses
• Colour-blind palette with shape cues, so colour is never the only signal
• Light and dark, following your phone
• Streak, win rate and a guess-distribution chart
• An optional daily reminder
• Share your result as an emoji grid, without spoiling the answer

PRIVATE AND OFFLINE BY DESIGN

Shabdle works with no internet connection — the release build does not even request the internet permission. There are no accounts, no ads, no tracking and no analytics. Your streak and stats are stored on your phone and go nowhere else.

Free, with nothing to buy.