Harfoyunu is a small collection of daily word games written for Turkish. Each game has one puzzle a day, the same for every player, rotating at midnight Istanbul time. They are free, need no account and no download, and run in a browser.
These are not translations of English games. The Turkish alphabet has twenty-nine letters, and six of them — ç, ğ, ı, ö, ş, ü — are distinct letters rather than accented variants: ç is not a kind of c, and ı is not a kind of i. Q, w and x are not Turkish letters at all and never appear.
Casing follows Turkish rules too, which is where most software gets it wrong: the uppercase of i is İ, and the lowercase of I is ı, so “kahvesi” becomes KAHVESİ and not KAHVESI. Every puzzle, every word list and every comparison in these games is built on that, which is why a Turkish word game has to be written rather than localised.
Turkish is also agglutinative, so a single root can produce hundreds of inflected forms. The puzzle answers are drawn from dictionary headwords only, leaving inflections and proper nouns out, while the list of words the games will accept is deliberately wider than the list they draw answers from.
Harfoyunu is made by LunoTech.io. Türkçe sayfa için ana sayfaya dönebilirsiniz.