Press contact: press@linespell.com
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LineSpell is a new multiplayer word game built around one rule: every word must land in a single straight line — across, down, or diagonal. The board starts full; players slide tiles (they can’t jump what’s in the way) to carve words out of the chaos.
Easy to pick up in a turn or two — but the highest-scoring play is always hiding somewhere, and finding it takes real skill. Up, down, across, diagonal: what will you spell?
Two ways to play. Pass-and-play for 1–4 players on one iPhone or iPad is free and needs no internet — a real around-the-table game. Online play is a single $2.99 unlock with Family Sharing enabled: start a match, share your join code, and take turns on your own time, minutes or days apart. Games never stall — a server-side turn timer nudges, then passes, absent players.
What’s not in it: no ads, no subscription, no coins or boosts, no accounts, no sign-ups, no email address. The App Store privacy label is close to empty — not as a marketing position, but because there is no analytics SDK in the binary. Every online opponent is someone you invited with a code: no stranger matchmaking, no bots, no chat.
Every word is checked against a 173,000+ word dictionary; scores reward letter values and word length; a weekly Word of the Week crowns the highest-scoring word played anywhere.
The straight-line rule demonstrates faster than it explains — and it’s the quickest way to see this isn’t a reskin of the word games you already know. The board starts full; you slide tiles into a single line and take the word off it. Here’s a full turn: slide the E into line, spell DOME, score, and the played tiles clear.
Two looping GIFs below — drop-in ready, and included in the full press kit.
Last summer, on a visit to a friend’s house, I got introduced to Wordsearch, a long-out-of-print Waddingtons board game their entire family was hooked on. I loved it, and I came home convinced the idea at its heart would make a great app. LineSpell is my tribute to that experience, built from scratch and enhanced for digital: slide tiles into one straight line, spell a word, pass it around the table or play online with up to 3 friends. And since it was born at a family game night, I built it the way a family game should work — no ads, no strangers, and nothing to buy beyond the game itself.
— Rob Cimino, Ludi Eximii LLC
LineSpell 1.0 is now on the US App Store, released September 1, 2026. Everything below is cleared for use.
App Store codes for the online unlock come in pairs — one for you and one for an opponent — so you can play a full online match. Request them at press@linespell.com.
The download bundle includes every shot shown here. More screenshots — iPad versions, clean caption-free captures, and specific crops — are available on request; if you need something particular, just ask.
Please use the lockup as shown — the LS mark always sits to the left of the wordmark and is never used on its own. Don’t recolor or restyle it. LineSpell™ is a trademark of Ludi Eximii LLC (registration pending — please use ™, not ®).
Player seat colors seen in screenshots (blue, green, and so on) are in-game UI, not brand colors — please don’t use them for LineSpell-branded art.
Ludi Eximii LLC is Rob Cimino’s one-person studio, and LineSpell is its debut — his first game. For interviews, the story behind it, or a developer photo, email press@linespell.com.
LineSpell’s word list is ENABLE 2K, compiled by Alan Beale and released by M. Cooper — with thanks to them for placing it in the public domain.
