Letter Tile Puzzle Generator

What this generator does

Writes the phrase out one character to a square, with a grey square for each space, and cuts it into tiles of the size you choose, in reading order. The last tile is padded with grey squares. The tiles are printed in alphabetical order with dashed cutting lines; the answer page shows them in order. The check reads the printed tiles: the answer must use each one exactly once and spell the phrase.

How to use this tool

1. Choose a built-in sentence (a seed repeats it) or type your own text.
2. Choose how many squares each tile has and how many tiles make a row of the answer.
3. Press Make the tiles, then print. Cut along the dashed lines; lay the tiles on the empty grid if you printed one.

Understanding the controls

Phrase

A built-in sentence, written for this site, or your own text of 10 or more letters and up to 140 characters. Your text stays in your browser.

Squares per tile

2, 3 or 4. Smaller tiles mean more of them to place and more ways to go wrong.

Tiles per row of the answer

3 to 6. The answer grid and the answer page use this; it does not change the tiles.

Print an empty answer grid

Adds a page of empty tile outlines in rows, to lay the cut tiles on.

Seed

For built-in sentences: the same seed and settings make the same tiles while the generator is unchanged. Not a secret.

Worked examples

THE CAT in tiles of 3

THE, a gap then CA, and T with two grey squares of padding; printed as THE, T■■, ■CA. The three tiles can be laid 3 × 2 × 1 = 6 ways.

Solving tip

Find the tile that ends in padding: it goes last. Tiles that start with a grey square begin a new word.

Common use cases

• A hands-on puzzle for a class, a club or a party table
• Reading and spelling practice with a sentence the group already knows
• A message to rebuild, from your own words

How this generator works

Text follows the same rules as the fallen-phrase puzzle: capitals, straight apostrophes, single spaces, and anything else outside A to Z and . , ' ! ? ; : - refused. Tiles are one square high and are never rotated. They are sorted alphabetically with grey squares last, so their printed order gives nothing away. The page counts the distinct orders the tiles could be laid in, ignoring language; identical tiles are counted once. The phrase is one of those orders, and whether another order also reads as sense is not checked.

Randomness and fairness

Only the choice of built-in sentence is random: from the browser's secure generator, or a seeded one when you type a code. Codes are deterministic, not cryptographic, and not a secret.

For how randomness is produced across the whole site, see how Generate Random works.

Assumptions this tool makes

• Solvers read left to right, row by row; the answer grid's row length is the one chosen.

Limitations and good to know

• Tiles use the same character rules as the Fallen Phrase Puzzle: capitals A to Z, spaces and . , ' ! ? ; : - only, with anything else refused rather than quietly changed.
• Only the intended order is guaranteed to read as the phrase; other orders are not checked for sense.
• Not yet cut out and solved on paper; the cutting lines have been checked in PDF only.

Common mistakes

Turning a tile round

Tiles are only ever moved, never rotated or flipped.

Treating the grey padding as a word gap

Padding only ever comes at the very end, on the last tile.

Privacy and your data

Your text stays in your browser. With analytics consent, a count records how many tiles a puzzle had; the text and any code are not sent.