For people who love sentences.
You've played every word game.
None of them were built for you.
They were built for streaks. For anxiety. For the same five-letter word, every morning, solved before your coffee cools.
You are a different kind of reader. You underline sentences. You reread paragraphs. You know the difference between a sentence that merely works and one that sings.
Unscramble was built for you.
Unscramble gives you a great sentence — Hemingway, Woolf, Fitzgerald, Faulkner — broken into fragments and shuffled. Your task is to put it back together.
Not by guessing. By feeling how the sentence wants to move.
Every sentence is real. Every attribution is exact. When you solve one, you hear it read aloud — unhurried, as if from the book itself.
There are no timers. There are no streaks. There is only the sentence, and whether you can feel its shape.
The difficulty isn't about word count. It's about structural complexity — the same skill a writer develops over a lifetime.
A short base clause. One sensory modifier. The world seen clearly and plainly.
"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream." — Hemingway
A central action followed by a balanced stack of descriptive phrases. Structure you can feel.
"He turned away, angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry." — Fitzgerald
Nested modifiers — phrases that describe other phrases. A layered, psychological flow.
"She had the oddest sense of being herself invisible, unseen, unknown…" — Woolf
A massive cumulative chain. Meaning that compounds with each fragment. Demanding, and worth it.
"He was not a big man, not tall, and though broad of shoulder, not heavily built…" — Faulkner
We made decisions early. They are not negotiable.
"I wanted to build the word game I kept looking for and couldn't find. The one that treated a sentence like the thing it actually is — the most refined unit of human thought."
William Miller · Founder, Prose Play LLCWe are looking for fifty readers to help us get this right before we release it to the world.
Not testers. Readers. People who will tell us honestly when a puzzle is too easy, when a sentence doesn't sing, when something feels off. People who will catch what we miss.
In exchange: free lifetime access to the complete app, your name in the acknowledgments, and the knowledge that you helped build something worth building.
We will respond personally to every application. No automated replies.
Tell us a little about yourself — and the sentence you love.
We received your application and we'll be in touch personally — not with an automated reply, but a real note from a real person.
— Prose Play