KURVLA

KURVLA is a small browser word game by mifinti on itch.io. Each puzzle is a tiny grid of letter tiles, and you find words by dragging from letter to letter, across, up, down or diagonally, using each tile no more than once in a word. One tile can read Qu, and it counts as Q, U or QU, whichever makes a word.

Beside the grid stands a list of blank slots, one for each common English word the grid contains, in alphabetical order and sized by length. Finding a word fills in its slot. Less common words also count and are added to the list, and because the list is alphabetical a found word can hint at the blanks around it. You finish a puzzle when every common word is found, or you can press Give Up to see the rest.

There are three daily puzzles: Small on a 2x3 board, Medium on 3x3 and Large on 3x4. Their letters come from the date, so everyone gets the same three boards, and the game opens on the smallest one you have not solved yet. Progress is saved in your browser, so you can leave a daily board and resume it later.

Once the dailies are done the game offers random boards of the same three sizes for as long as you like. Its word list combines SCOWL and the English Open Word List, and the code is released under the Artistic License 2.0.

The game came out in February 2026 and was last updated on 3 September 2026, when dragging on a touch screen was fixed and slang was taken out of the word list. On a phone the itch.io page warns that the game was not made for the device, but it runs, with smaller tiles.