Integrame

What is Integrame?

Integrame is a set of authentic arrowword puzzles, the format Romanian magazines have printed for decades. There is no numbered clue list beside the grid: every definition lives in a cell inside the grid, and an arrow leaving that cell points at the square where its answer begins. Wherever an across answer meets a down answer they share the same letter, so every word you finish hands you letters in another.

The library holds twenty original puzzles, ten in English and ten in Romanian. The two catalogues are written independently, because a clue, an answer length and a crossing pattern almost never survive translation together. Grids run from 9 by 11 up to 11 by 21 cells across four difficulty levels and six subject areas, from general knowledge to history and traditions, and a page takes roughly ten to eighteen minutes.

A board is never squeezed to fit a phone. It keeps its real size and the camera moves across it, so the letters stay big enough to read on grids that would otherwise arrive the size of a stamp.

How to play

• Tap any letter cell. The whole answer lights up together with its clue cell and the arrow between them, and the definition itself is read in the band under the board. Clue cells in the grid carry a text mask, the way shrunken magazine print looks from arm's length; the band is the reading surface. Tap the band to jump to the next unfinished answer, or use the chevrons on either side for previous and next.
• Type. The built-in keyboard sits below the band: A to Z plus erase. On a desktop the physical keyboard works too, with Backspace to erase, the arrow keys to step between answers and Ctrl+Z or Cmd+Z to undo.
• Tap a crossing again to swap between the across answer and the down answer that share that letter.
• Move the board by dragging and pinch to zoom. Zoomed in, a Fit entire board chip appears in the corner to bring the whole page back, and on the large grids a small map shows which part of the page you are looking at.
• The verdict comes at the end, in words. Nothing confirms a word while you type. Fill the grid correctly and a green bar states the solve with your time and whether you took help. Fill it with a mistake somewhere and a red bar says so and stays, through leaving and coming back, until you change a letter.
• Solving tools live in the header menu: check one letter, one answer or the whole grid, and reveal one letter, one answer or the whole grid. Anything taken from there marks the solve as assisted.
• Progress saves on this device after every move. A half solved page waits for you in the library under Continue, and a solved one reopens with its result instead of a blank grid.

Scoring, XP and challenges

Every correct letter is worth 10 points and finishing the grid adds 250. Help is priced rather than forbidden: a checked letter costs 2 points, a checked answer 10 and a checked grid 40, while a revealed letter costs 25, a revealed answer 100 and a revealed grid 500. The score never falls below zero.

Finish a page and the recap gives you the time, the score, the XP earned and a badge when you beat your own best on that puzzle. From there you can share the result, or send a challenge: the link opens that exact grid for whoever receives it, so two scores are actually comparable instead of a matter of trust.

Solving tips

1. Start with the short answers. Entries of three to five letters make up most of every grid and are the cheapest crossings you will get, and they anchor the long words running through them.
2. Read the arrow, not just the box. A clue cell can hold two definitions, one per direction, and an arrow route may turn a corner before the answer starts.
3. Let the crossings work. One confirmed letter narrows two answers at once, which beats staring harder at a single definition.
4. Fill everything before you check. The red bar tells you for free that the grid is wrong; Check answer costs points to tell you where.
5. Fit the whole board when you lose the thread. On the wide grids the overview shows which corner is still empty faster than panning around does.
6. Keep reveals for a genuine dead end. A revealed answer costs more than ten correct letters, and it turns a clean solve into an assisted one for good.

Romanian and English puzzles

The puzzle language follows the language you pick in the platform settings, so the game never asks twice. Romanian clues are written in full Romanian with diacritics, while the answers are typed the way magazines print them, in plain A to Z letters: CANA for "cană", TANAR for "tânăr". English puzzles follow British editorial conventions. Each catalogue keeps its own progress and its own completed count.

Settings and accessibility

Three solving preferences sit in the game settings. Checking letters as you type is off by default, so nothing spoils the ending; skipping filled cells sends the cursor to the next empty square of the answer; and continuing to the next answer moves the selection along once the current word is full. Sound and haptics have their own switches, and camera motion follows the reduced motion preference of your device.

FAQ

Are the puzzles generated while I play?

No. Every grid, clue, answer and crossing is authored in advance and validated before release. Nothing is produced at runtime, which is also why a challenge link can hand a friend exactly the page you solved.

Do I need to finish a puzzle in one sitting?

No. Your letters and your clock are saved after every move, and the library keeps a Continue card for the page you had open.

Does anything tell me a word is right as I type?

Only if you ask for it. By default the grid stays quiet until it is full and then gives its verdict in one line. Turn on "Check letters as you type" for immediate feedback, or use Check from the tools menu whenever you want, which counts as help.

Do I need an account?

No. Playing, scoring, earning XP and sending challenge links all work without signing up. Signing in keeps your scores and XP with you when you change device, while the letters typed into an unfinished grid stay on the device where you typed them.

Is Integrame free?

Yes. It runs directly in your browser, with no download, no install and no payment.