wordle × battleship · 2-8 players · two crews
battlewords
Each crew is dealt five secret words and snakes them across its grid in any directions. Then it is discovery fire: hits mark cells but show no letters, and the gun stays hot until you miss. Light up a whole snake and you can call its word — right sinks it and keeps the gun, wrong paints wordle intel right onto the grid.
find a battle
quick match
Type a name and queue up. Humans are matched against humans first; if nobody shows within ~15 seconds a bot mans the other crew.
Classic is the full five-word fleet on a 10×10 board. Duel is the espresso shot: one 5-letter word each on a 5×5 board, first call wins.
set sail with friends
open a new room
Fresh waters at /game/ivory-newt-25 — share the link, split into crews. First aboard picks seats and mode.
open a private room
Unlisted — never shows in the directory or the rooms api. The invite link is the only door; copy it from the room once you are in.
open private watersjoin by code
Got a room code from a friend? Sail straight there.
open rooms
how a round goes
1 · lay your words
The quartermaster deals each crew five dictionary words — 6, 5, 4, 4 and 3 letters. Lay each one cell by cell: every letter must touch the one before it, up, down, left or right, so words snake into shapes only your crew knows.
2 · discovery fire
Crews trade salvos. A hit marks the cell but reveals no letter — and the gun stays with you until you miss. Map the enemy waters splash by splash.
3 · call the words
Hit every cell of a snake and it fills in solid in its own color. Click it and just type — the letters land on the snake itself and the call fires on the last one. Right sinks it and keeps the gun hot; wrong (any letters count, dictionary or not) paints wordle intel onto the snake and passes the gun. First crew to sink every enemy word wins.
4 · marks & spells
Every hit earns your crew a mark. Spend them on spells: a depth charge sounds the 8 cells around a checked one, broadsides sweep a whole row or column, the spyglass unlocks a letter on every revealed snake, and the current chart draws arrows showing which way a word flows.
leaderboard
| sailor | rank | rating | games | wins | win rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maya | first mate | 1058 | 4 | 4 | 100% |
| alice | deckhand | 1044 | 3 | 3 | 100% |
| Test | deckhand | 1031 | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| Anna | deckhand | 1016 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| Bob | deckhand | 1016 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| Brineclank Bot | deckhand | 1016 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| Tinfin Bot | deckhand | 1016 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| Wanda | deckhand | 1016 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| Wavewrench Bot | deckhand | 1016 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| test | deckhand | 1016 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| Eliza | deckhand | 1015 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| Rustjaw Bot | deckhand | 1015 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| TEST | deckhand | 1001 | 2 | 1 | 50% |
| Finn | deckhand | 986 | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Test2 | deckhand | 985 | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Bert | deckhand | 984 | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Gearbeard Bot | deckhand | 984 | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| John | deckhand | 984 | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Solo | deckhand | 984 | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Yusuf | deckhand | 984 | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Crankle Bot | deckhand | 983 | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Angelo | deckhand | 969 | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| Boltbeak Bot | deckhand | 969 | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| Theo | deckhand | 956 | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| bob | deckhand | 956 | 3 | 0 | 0% |