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Gallows Word Cache Builder

Guess the word as often as you like. Every wrong letter builds the gallows.

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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.

Finders guess a hidden five-letter word, as many times as they like. Every guess colors its tiles green, amber or gray, but every letter that is not in the word builds another piece of the gallows, and when the lives run out the run is lost. Pick a new word every day or set your own, and choose how many lives finders get. The final coordinates or keyword are released only after the server checks the winning guess.

Cache

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.

Game settings

Word

Each letter that is not in the word costs one life, the first time it is played. Guesses themselves are unlimited.

Reveal (shown when they solve the puzzle)

Reveal either final coordinates or a keyword
Where can I host images 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.

Live preview

A sample board: three guesses and four wrong letters. Finders see this board, with your lives.