The Spelling Snake

Spelt this session

Finish a word and it lands in here.

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Spell this word

Lives

The free trial has finished

Everything is still here

It is free while the game is being built. Signing in keeps your children’s words and progress on this tablet, exactly as they are.

Who is playing?

The Spelling Snake

Each player keeps their own words, crystals, snakes and boards. Four players per account.

Your snakes

Every word you spell earns crystals, and crystals unlock snakes. Tap one you have already unlocked to wear it.

0Crystals earned
1Snakes unlocked
—Next snake in

Words spelt

How many different words this player has spelt. Spelling because three times still counts as one word.

Mistakes do not matter. Finish the word and it counts, however many goes it took.

New boards are earned with these words.

Crystals

Every word you finish pays crystals, and crystals are what unlock new snakes. You never spend them — the number only ever goes up.

1A short word4 letters or fewer
2A middle-sized word5 to 8 letters
3A long word9 letters or more
+1No wrong letters that goA little extra on top, never taken away
+3The gold crystal on the boardTurns up on about one word in five

You are paid for finishing a word, however many goes it takes — so needing more attempts never earns you less.

Boards

New ground unlocks as you spell. Pick whichever one you fancy — you can always go back to the Open Meadow.

New board unlocked

Portals

New snake unlocked

Slime

You have spelt enough words to unlock it.

Grown-ups only

Answer this to see the word lists and how everyone is getting on.

7 × 8 = ?

Set word list

Choose the player, and the word list you would like them to play.

WordTimes speltProgressSecured?Last practisedIn the game

Progress word on screen word hidden secured

Worksheets

Built from whichever list this player is on, three words at a time. Each block takes the same three words through chunks, then tracing and writing, then sentences.

Account

This part is for the grown-up. Signing in carries on where the free trial stops. It is free while the game is being built.

or

Right now nothing leaves this tablet — the whole game is in this browser. Signing in keeps a copy of your children’s names and progress on our server, so a lost tablet does not lose their work and they can carry on on another device. We keep your email address and that copy, and nothing else — and you can download the lot, or delete all of it, from this screen whenever you want to.

Your children’s progress is backed up to this account. Sign in on another device to carry on there — both are kept, word by word, so nothing is lost either way.

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Word lists

Your data

Everything we hold about you and your children is yours to take away or to delete, whenever you like.