Category: Word · Players: free-for-all (no elimination) · Status: Stable
How to play
Guess words
Type a single word (letters only, at least two characters). Each new word
is placed on a closeness ladder by its rank; the closer it is, the hotter
it glows.
Read the heat
A low rank (e.g. #3) means you’re very close; a high rank (e.g. #1340) is
cold. Use everyone’s guesses to triangulate toward the secret.
Host setup
| Option | Values | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Secret word | any in-vocabulary English word | — (required) |
| Winner mode | final_guess, most_points | most_points |
| Reveal gift | one gift that unlocks letters (optional) | off |
- final_guess — the first person to reach rank 1 wins; others rank by their best (lowest) rank.
- most_points — every accepted guess scores by rank tier (below), and the highest total wins. A rank-1 hit still ends the round.
On screen
- Marquee — game title and how-to hint.
- Heat tiles — counts of close / mid / far guesses so far.
- Gift strip — which gift reveals letters and by how much (when configured).
- Revealed letters — letters unlocked by gifts, listed without positions.
- Closest-guess hero — the current best guess, with its rank and heat bar.
- Closest-guess ladder — recent guesses sorted by rank, colored by heat.
- Recent attempts — every guess in arrival order, including duplicates and non-words.
- Leaderboard — top players by points (or best rank in final-guess mode).
Gifts
Chatexto’s gift is cooperative — it helps the whole room, and it can never solve the word outright. It’s off unless the host picks a reveal gift.- Each send of the reveal gift uncovers about 10% of the word’s letters (at least one), at random positions.
- Reveals are capped at 70% of the word — the remaining letters must always be guessed. Once the cap is hit, further gifts do nothing (“hints exhausted”).
- Spaces, hyphens, and punctuation are shown from the start and don’t count against the cap.
Scoring & winning
In most_points mode, each accepted guess scores by rank:| Rank | Points |
|---|---|
| 1 | 100 |
| 2–10 | 30 |
| 11–50 | 15 |
| 51–200 | 8 |
| 201–1000 | 3 |
| 1001–5000 | 1 |
| 5000+ | 0 |
- A rank-1 guess ends the round in either mode. In most_points, the solver banks 100 first, then the highest total is crowned — usually the solver, but a prolific guesser can edge ahead.
- Tiebreaks: points, then best rank, then join order.
- Wins are tracked per streamer.