Verselah
Seven tries. One word. Drawn from Scripture.
A word game with an ancient soul. Every answer is a five-letter word from the Canonical books of the Bible — solve it, and the verse it lives in opens before you, with the Hebrew or Greek behind it. And everyone walks the same road: puzzle #1 is FAITH, for every player who ever installs it.
How the Walk Works
Guess in seven
You have seven tries to uncover the hidden word. Every guess must be a real five-letter word — and with each one, the tiles are dyed to show how near you came.
The deeper the dye, the truer the guess
A letter struck to stone has no place in the word. Washed in blue, it belongs to the word but stands in the wrong spot. Robed in purple — the royal dye — it is enthroned: right letter, right place.
Solve the word, receive the verse
Every answer comes from the Berean Standard Bible. The moment you solve it, the verse it came from is revealed — with the original Hebrew, Greek, or Aramaic word and its meaning.
Walk the road together
Puzzles arrive in the same order for everyone. Share your solve and a friend can chase your score on the very same word — and every seventh clean solve in a row, a wall falls.
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
For Players of Other Word Games
Why seven tries instead of six?
Seven is Scripture's number of completeness — Jericho fell on the seventh circuit — and the extra row makes the rarer words of the Bible fair. Your shared scores read out of 7.
Why purple and blue instead of green and yellow?
Verselah speaks in the tabernacle's own dyes (Exodus 25:4). Blue: the letter belongs to the word, but not to that place. Purple, the royal dye: enthroned — right letter, right place. The deeper the dye, the truer the guess.
What are the little marks on the tiles?
A small engraved diamond rides every purple tile and an open ring every blue one, so the verdict never depends on color alone. Colorblind players read the shapes.
Is the answer really always from the Bible?
Every answer is a five-letter word that appears in the Canonical books of the Berean Standard Bible — 801 of them, each carrying the verse it was drawn from. Some answers are names; a pinned tag above the board tells you when.
Do I have to wait a day for the next word?
No midnight rationing — solve a word and the next is ready. But everyone walks the same numbered road, so puzzle #12 is the same word for you and your family, and a shared score is a challenge.
What happens when I run out of rows?
The word waits for you. Try the same word again on a fresh board — and when only one row remains, a Remez (Hebrew for “hint”) offers a glimpse of the answer's own verse with the word struck out.
What is the Jericho Walk?
Every seventh consecutive clean solve, the wall falls — a small stone-crumbling celebration over Joshua 6:20, counted on your statistics page.
What does it cost?
Verselah is free. Short ads appear between some puzzles; a one-time Sabbath Rest purchase removes them forever, and optional scroll packs unseal a Remez without an ad.
Take up the walk
Free to play. Verselah is coming soon to the App Store and Google Play — the badges below will go live on release day.
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