Gatanka

Gatanka (Bulgarian for "riddle") is a word-guessing game in the Bulgarian language; the whole interface is in Bulgarian. Read the riddle, look at the empty letter tiles and guess the word one letter at a time.

A brass lantern lights the village street. Every wrong letter puts out one of its seven flames and the night closes in; when the last flame dies, the word is lost. In the evening run, every word you solve pours some flames back, but less and less as the night goes on.

• 271 words in 10 themes: animals, birds and bugs, food, nature, home, jobs, the body, plants, travel, Bulgarian customs and holidays
• A riddle for every word: short hints written for this game, not dictionary definitions
• Daily word: one word for everyone each day, with a streak that grows while you keep solving it
• Evening run: words one after another, a free first letter for the first three, refills that shrink from three flames to one, bonus points for a clean word
• Themes: clear all 27 words of a theme; the best result per theme is saved
• Firefly hint: trade a flame for a letter when you are stuck
• Real keyboard or touch: Bulgarian phonetic or Cyrillic layout, or the on-screen keyboard

Code and text written with AI assistance; checked by PN Scripts with automated tests. Every shape is drawn and every sound synthesised by code; there are no AI-generated image or audio files.

Controls

• Tap a letter on the on-screen Cyrillic keyboard
• Keyboard: type with the Bulgarian phonetic layout (Q = я, W = в, ` = ч ...) or a Bulgarian Cyrillic layout
• Tab or the Firefly button: reveal a letter for one flame
• Arrow keys and Enter (or 1, 2, 3): choose a mode or a theme; Backspace: back
• Esc: pause, sound button: mute (P and M type п and м)

Made by PN Scripts.