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Word Ladder Cache Builder

Make your own word ladder puzzle cache with a sharable play link.

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Free, just a username and passphrase, no email. Caches you build show up in My Caches so you can reopen and edit them without hunting for the edit link, and watch plays and wins. The same account syncs My Puzzle Texts across devices and manages your short links.

My Caches
Do not put sensitive, personal, or inappropriate content in a cache. Anything you create here is public to anyone with the link, and you are responsible for what you publish. Keep a copy of your edit key, it is the only way to change or delete your cache later.

Play your own cache before you publish it

Settings that look fair in this form can be brutal, or trivial, in the field. Finish the game yourself, start to end, on the kind of device your finders will use, and check that the difficulty, timers, hints, wording, and the final reveal all behave the way you intended. Every cache you create here comes with a play link and an edit link, so you can test it, tune it, and test it again before anyone else sees it.

A word ladder climbs from one word to another by changing exactly one letter at a time, and every rung along the way has to be a real word. You pick the start word, the end word and how many moves a player gets. When they arrive, your final coordinates or keyword are revealed. The answer stays on the server, so nothing is hidden in the page for a player to peek at.

Anything you create here is public to anyone with the link, and you are responsible for what you publish. Keep a copy of your edit key, it is the only way to change or delete your puzzle later.

Your puzzle

Shown to players as a link to your cache page.

Only the site admin can see this, in case they need to reach you about your cache. Never shown to players.

Word length

Four-letter ladders use a 2,398 word list, five-letter ladders an 11,695 word one.

Puzzle mode

Give players a little room above par. Running out of moves just restarts the climb.

On solve, reveal

Shown only after a player reaches your end word. Reveal either the final coordinates or a keyword, not both.

Where can I host an image for free?

Paste a direct https:// link to an image. Free image hosts that give a direct link include ImgBB, postimages.org, and Cloudinary. A geocaching.com image link works too. The link must start with https://.

Keep your cache in play to keep it live. Share the play link so people visit it; unused caches are cleaned up over time.

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My word ladder cache
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