bridj

bridj is a word game by Andrew Serb and James Karlsson (jaaamesey on itch.io), with its daily count starting on 1 July 2024. Each puzzle shows two words, one along the top row of a six-column grid and one along the bottom, such as COMPOST and FERTILE. Between them is empty space, and below the grid is a rack of letter tiles, some of them two-letter tiles like EA or IL. You build a bridge by laying words down and across from the top word until it reaches the bottom one.

The rules are tight. Tiles can only go next to tiles already joined to the top word, every run of tiles across and down has to be a real word of three letters or more, and you only get new tiles once everything on the board spells words. Placed tiles earn points, and the total shows as a multiplication at the bottom of the screen. An undo button goes back up to eight moves, and a wild tile stands in for any letter when you are stuck.

Beside the main puzzle there is a daily Blitz, where the time you take counts toward your score and the timer cannot be paused, plus Infinite and Practice modes, a puzzle builder for your own boards and an archive of earlier days. A new puzzle comes at local midnight. bridj plays free in the browser at bridj.link, on itch.io and as a free iPhone app; the web version shows Google ads. An optional login saves progress across devices.

It suits players who like Scrabble-style tile play but want a goal beyond a high score: the board has a start and a finish, and the fun is in finding a route that scores well on the way.