Faultline

Faultline is a small crossword game from Boomchuk, an independent studio in Los Angeles. The page calls it a "frozen crossword puzzle" and marks it as a beta. It runs in the browser with no account, and your results stay in that browser.

Every date has three puzzles, Easy, Medium and Hard, picked from the Puzzles menu. Each has a title and a short scene. On 7 November 2026 the Hard puzzle was "Pets", described as "Companion animals and their everyday world." with four six letter answers. Easy, called "Two on the ice" that day, has two small crossing words and teaches the moves.

A puzzle starts under ice. You "break the surface" by moving a large I into the empty quarter of the board until it disappears. That takes one break on Easy, two on Medium and three on Hard. Then the grid shows, with a few starter letters marked by a checkmark. Those cannot move or break.

You drag a letter cube into an empty square, or tap the letter and then the square. Dragging a cube through other cubes cracks them, so the path matters. Fruit cubes, shaped like a leaf, a lemon or a cherry, carry pips. A tap on their edge chips them and costs a move, and once the shell cracks it lets out replacement letters. Undo takes back a move and Restart starts the puzzle over.

A blue outline appears while a whole word sits in place, and each new word you solve earns one more checkmarked letter. You win when all the words are complete at the same time. The board does not need to be clear.

A moves counter tracks each puzzle and a Results tab keeps your record. Solving all three puzzles on their release day builds a streak. Archive solves count toward overall progress but not the streak.