A daily literary puzzle
The game writers play daily.
is built on fifty years of research showing that one specific kind of practice — reassembling the sentences of great writers — produces writing gains no classroom has ever matched.
In 1973, researcher Frank O'Hare gave seventh graders one semester of exactly this kind of practice. They finished the semester writing like twelfth graders.
Five grade levels of writing proficiency.
One semester.
That's not a fluke. A landmark Carnegie Corporation review of 176 empirical studies ranked sentence combining among the most effective writing interventions ever documented — for students from fourth grade through college.
The gains go deeper than mechanics. Students didn't just write better sentences. They became better storytellers and stronger revisers. And the research found one more thing: gains eroded without continued practice. Which is exactly why we built a daily game.
When learning feels like play — when the challenge is real, the stakes are low, and you can feel yourself getting better — people show up every day.
We applied that principle to the thing that matters most: the sentence.
We made decisions early. They are not negotiable.
Readers, writers, lifelong learners. Play it before it goes public and tell us honestly what you think.
In exchange: free lifetime access to the complete app, your name in the acknowledgments, and the knowledge that you helped build something worth building.
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