A Word Vice board mid-round: a four-by-four grid of letters with the timer, score, and vice count above it, and found words listed below.

Word Vice

A spicy little word game for iPhone and iPad.

Find words. Find bad words.
Bad words pay obscenely well.

Sixty seconds. A grid of letters. Swipe out every word you can find. The ones you’d never say at brunch are worth the most.

Coming soon. Practice your vocabulary.

  • PG-13 is free forever. All of it, no trial.
  • Want the filthy dictionary? Unlock R-Rated.
  • Pick your price from three. Same filth in each.

iPhone & iPad · No ads · No accounts · No internet required

It started in the car.

We were on a long drive, playing the kind of word game you play to make the miles go faster. My wife has a talent for finding the one word in any puzzle that makes everyone in the car blush. She found several, and then she said the thing that turned into this app:

“The dirty words should be worth more.”

She was right. Every word game politely pretends half the vocabulary doesn’t exist. You can spot a filthy little four-letter word sitting right there in the grid, perfectly legal, and score the same four points you’d get for OATS.

Word Vice does the opposite. Ordinary words score the ordinary way; the naughty ones pay a bonus. I built it for her first. The rest of you are welcome to it.

How to Misbehave

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Sixty seconds. Go.

One round is one minute: long enough to get good, short enough to say “one more” and mean it. Play it on 4×4, 5×5, or 6×6 on iPad.

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Swipe like you mean it

Drag across neighboring letters. The board reads your whole gesture, so fast and sloppy still lands the word you meant. Tapping works too.

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Pluralize your crimes

Swipe MUG and MUGS comes with it, as long as the board has an S to finish it. Both score on their own.

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Vice pays better

Every board hides at least one Vice Word you’d be embarrassed to say out loud. Find it for extra points and a few seconds of Vice Fever, where anything using its letters pays a bonus.

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Choose your corruption level

PG-13 keeps it cheeky. R-Rated takes the gloves off. Each level keeps its own boards, scores, and callsigns.

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Your degeneracy stays on-device

  • No accounts +1
  • No ads or tracking +2
  • No internet required +3
  • Filthy vocabulary +8

Word Vice is built to work with VoiceOver. If something reads wrong or won’t focus, tell me and I’ll fix it.

Evidence of Wrongdoing

The Word Vice start screen with round setup controls for vice level and board size.
Choose your level of bad judgment.
A Vice Word being swiped out mid-round, with Vice Fever running.
Find something you shouldn’t.
The bonus round unlock screen counting down to a fresh four-by-four board.
Congrats on extending your debauchery.