About Tantala
A new word puzzle every day, built around something Indian: chai, street food, rivers, weddings, monsoon.
How it works
Each day’s grid of 48 letters hides a set of words on one theme. Drag across touching letters, in any direction, to trace a word. Every letter belongs to exactly one word, so when you’ve found them all the board is full.
One word, the taana, runs from one edge of the board to the opposite edge and sums up the theme. In weaving, the taana is the warp: the threads stretched across the loom that everything else is woven through.
Other real words you find are bonus words. Every three of them earn a hint.
Two scripts
Play in Hinglish, with Latin letters, or in Hindi, where each cell holds a full akshara such as का or प्र. The theme is the same, but each script has its own grid.
The name
તાંતણા (tāntaṇā) is Gujarati for “threads”. Every word in the puzzle is a thread pulled through the grid.
When puzzles change
A new puzzle arrives at midnight India time, the same moment for everyone, wherever you are.
Credits
- Wordmark and display type: Shrikhand by Jonny Pinhorn, SIL Open Font License.
- Hindi type: Noto Sans Devanagari by the Noto Project Authors, SIL Open Font License.
- English bonus words: SCOWL word lists by Kevin Atkinson.
Tantala is a side project by Rawbots.