Last Word on Earth

One global board. Everyone strikes a word. The last word still standing wins.

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Last to fall

The 100 most recent words struck.

    Order of fall

    Survival milestones — and the one that outlasts them all.

    All Last Words

    Every word that has ever outlasted the board. Newest first.

    About

    Last Word on Earth is a slow, shared word game with a single rule: click any word to strike it from the board. The catch is that everyone plays the same board at the same time, so words don't only vanish when you click — they disappear as people elsewhere strike them too. Chip away long enough and exactly one word is left standing. That word is the last word.

    When a board empties down to its final survivor, the winner is recorded on the Last Words page — together with the order everything fell — and then the board fills back up and another round quietly begins. It's less a game you win and more a small experiment in what a crowd decides to keep.

    The word list

    The board is built from ENABLE, the open lexicon behind many word games — roughly 83,000 entries. I stripped out plurals (and other semi-duplicates) and the profanity and slurs the raw competitive lists still carry, but left every genuinely strange real word in place, because those are the fun ones to find still standing: zyzzyva, shittim, qi. If it's on the board, it's a real, playable English word.

    English, for now

    A small apology: it's English only at the moment. That leaves out most of the languages the world actually thinks in, and I'd like to fix that. More languages — and themed boards built around a single subject — are where this is headed. Thanks for bearing with one tongue in the meantime.

    Tinkered together by Rich Aviles in Atlanta.