Who makes WordHunt, and how this site is written
WordHunt: Search & Challenge is built and published by Little Lotus Studio. This page covers who writes the articles here and the rules they have to pass, because a site that makes claims about evidence ought to be checkable itself.
Little Lotus Studio
Little Lotus Studio develops and publishes WordHunt: Search & Challenge, a free word search game for Android 7.0 and above, distributed through Google Play. The studio owns the WordHunt name and the artwork, levels and word lists inside the game.
The game has no account system and no server of its own: progress is stored on your device and never uploaded. What does leave the device, and what controls it, is set out in the privacy policy.
Who writes the articles?
Articles are published under the byline WordHunt Editorial, the studio’s own editorial team rather than an outside agency or syndicated content. We do not accept paid guest posts, sponsored placements or link exchanges, and no article on this site has been commissioned by a third party.
We are puzzle developers, not psychologists. Where an article touches research on memory, attention or cognition, it reports what published studies found and names them, rather than offering an opinion of our own. Where we have a commercial interest in the answer — whether puzzles are good for you, whether an app beats paper — the article says so and argues the honest case anyway.
What every article has to pass
These are not aspirations. Each one is checked by a script that fails the build, so an article that breaks them cannot be published.
- No invented facts about the game
- Every number on this site — level counts, grid sizes, difficulty settings, permissions — comes from a single file that is the source of truth, and nothing enters that file unless it is confirmed by the app itself. No page restates a fact independently, so no page can drift out of date on its own.
- No fabricated ratings
- Review scores and install counts are taken from the live Play Console listing or left blank. While a figure is unknown the page shows that it is pending rather than guessing, and no aggregate rating is emitted in structured data. An invented rating is a Google structured-data violation and a Play policy risk.
- Evidence is named, and weak evidence is labelled
- Where an article makes a claim about memory, attention or cognition, the study behind it is named and dated. Where the research is thin or contested — the origins of the word search, the effect of puzzles on general cognition — the article says so instead of picking the tidier version.
- Claims about rivals are checked, not assumed
- Articles comparing word games describe behaviour that can be verified by installing them, such as whether a puzzle loads with the connection off. Nothing is characterised from a store listing alone.
- Corrections are made in place
- When an article is wrong it is edited and its modification date changes with it. There is no silent revision: the published and updated dates on every post are the real ones, and they are emitted in structured data.
Articles are also required to carry a direct answer to their own title within the first screen, to link to related reading, and to be rebuilt whenever the underlying product facts change. Read the blog or the FAQ.
Tell us when something here is wrong
If an article states something inaccurate, we want to know. Corrections are made in place and the article's modification date changes with them.
Corrections, questions about how an article was researched, and anything else about the site go to the address below.
You can also leave a review or reply to one on the Google Play listing.