A Riddle Book in Four Chapters

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Nounsmith

or, Words That Become Things

Drop a G on BOAT.
Now it's a GOAT.

Before: the riddle Only a goat could mow this hill, and all we have is a BOAT, with a sailing boat on the hill and the letters C, G and M in the tray
Before
After: the word reads GOAT, a goat stands on the hill where the boat was, and the page says So it is.
After

Nounsmith is a book of 40 word riddles for iPhone. Each page is a plate: a riddle sentence set in wood type above a printed picture, and the words and the things trade places.

No ads · No tracking · No timers · Plays offline

Coming soon to the App Store · iPhone

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The list of plates: chapter one, The Cottage, as a dial of ten numbered plates
The list of plates
A solved page with the line So it is.
A solved page: So it is.

How It Plays

  1. Read the riddle sentence under the plate number.

  2. Change the page in one of three ways.

    Make

    Drag RAIN from the sentence onto the sky, and it rains on the garden.

    Take

    Drag the tree from the picture up into the gap in the sentence, and the tree is gone.

    Respell

    Drop a G on BOAT. Now it is a GOAT, standing where the boat was.

  3. The page comes true: So it is.

On Every Plate

Oops

A wrong word goes wrong: the cat gets soaked, the ships follow the moon onto the rocks. An Eraser takes the move back.

The Quill

Stuck? The Quill outlines the next word to move and marks where it goes.

Forty Plates

Hand-made pages in four chapters: The Cottage, The Harbour, The Market, The Lighthouse.

The Price

The Cottage (10 pages) is free. The Whole Book opens the other three chapters for $2.99, once. An Inkwell of 12 Quills and 6 Erasers is $1.99. Prices may vary by country.

Questions

Is there a timer or lives?
No. Take as long as a page needs.
Does it show ads or track me?
No ads, no analytics, no account. Progress stays on your iPhone.
Do I need to buy hints?
No. You start with Quills and Erasers and find more as you solve pages; the Inkwell is optional.
When is it out?
Nounsmith is coming soon to the App Store for iPhone.

Coming Soon

The first chapter is free.
Email me at launch Opens your mail app; just press send. Or write to lamnv260398@gmail.com.