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The store currently lists version 1.1.2, updated 2026-10-13.
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Kern is a word game about handling letters with care. Three ways to play, one fair leaderboard, and living worlds that react to the words you find.
No ads, ever. No subscriptions, no accounts, no tracking — one price, the whole game.
Three modes, one score:
Wheel — swipe through a letter wheel to spell words that fill a mini crossword. Extra words bank as bonus finds.
Search — classic word search with a twist: every hidden word belongs to the world you're in. An Ocean board hides ocean words.
Chain — drag any path through neighboring letters and build your own words. The board hides more than you think.
The puzzles are in English: every board is built from an English word list, and every word you play is an English word. Menus and tutorials are available in nine languages.…
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Optimized for iPhone Duo. Open or folded, Kern now uses the whole screen: the menu, Wheel, Search and Chain split into two columns on the inner display, with the board as large as it can be and the world picker always in view. The same two-column layouts also work on an iPad held sideways. Puzzles and scoring are unchanged.
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