Letterjacht is a small collection of daily word games written for Dutch. Each game has one puzzle a day, the same for every player, rotating at midnight Amsterdam time. They are free, need no account and no download, and run in a browser.
These are not translated games. Dutch compounds productively — woordenboek, fietsenstalling, aanbestedingsdossier — and those compounds are lexicalised, so they sit in the dictionary as genuine entries. Almost a quarter of the Dutch dictionary is twelve letters or longer. Left in, they make the letter games unbounded, so the puzzles here exclude them.
Accents work the opposite way to how many languages treat them: é, ë and ï are the same letters wearing marks, not distinct letters, so café and cafe count as one word and you never have to type an accent. And ij is two letters on the board, i then j, as Dutch word games have always treated it — though it capitalises as a unit in names, which is why this site writes IJsselmeer and not Ijsselmeer.
The word lists come from OpenTaal, the Dutch spelling dictionary, combined with a frequency list so that answers are words people actually use. The list of words the games will accept is deliberately wider than the list they draw answers from.
Letterjacht is made by LunoTech.io. Voor de Nederlandse site ga je terug naar de homepage .