Thin Air

Name a fruit. Anyone can say “apple”  but the rarer your answer, the higher your balloon climbs.

Thin Air is a cozy pixel-art daily puzzle made of three small games. Everyone gets the same prompts and the same word each day, so you can compare your score with friends. Come back tomorrow for a new set.

☁️ Thin Air — the balloon climb
Five prompts, twenty seconds each: name a sport, a capital city in the Americas, a type of bread… Common answers barely lift you off the grass; rare ones send you through the clouds, past the jet stream and into the stars. Over 64,000 accepted answers, so typos and spelling variants still count. Climb high enough and you might pass a few sights on the way up.

✒️ Inkwell — the notebook
Find the hidden five-letter word in six lines of ink, in a quiet library with rain on the window and a crackling fire. Green: right letter, right place. Ochre: in the word, somewhere else. Grey: not in the word.

🌴 Neon Drive — the night drive
Movies and TV, on a neon Miami boulevard. Name a fantasy movie, a 90s TV show, a film starring Tom Hanks… Obscure picks drive you further, from EXTRA to CULT CLASSIC.

Your day

• One run a day: Thin Air → Inkwell → Neon Drive
• Each game is scored out of 100 (how many players you beat), 300 in all, with a daily rank, a weekly chart and a streak
• Same prompts for everyone, never repeated until the whole deck has been played
• A calm daytime sky or a dark, stormy one (dark mode)
• English, Türkçe and Deutsch
• Plays in the browser on desktop or phone (hold your phone upright)

Credits

Made by Mehmet Arda Köksal.

• Font: VT323 by Peter Hull (SIL Open Font License 1.1)
• Sky art: Pixel Skies by Digital Moons (https://digitalmoons.itch.io/pixel-skies-demo)
• Balloon art: "LuQui 48 x 48 Large Hot air balloon Assets" by LuQui (https://luquigames.itch.io/luqui-48-x-48-large-hot-air-balloon-assets), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
• Fireplace sound: "Fireplace Sound loop" by PagDev (https://opengameart.org/node/123636), CC0
• Handwriting sound: "Writing Sound Loop" by freesound_community (Pixabay)
• Word lists: FrequencyWords by Hermit Dave (https://github.com/hermitdave/FrequencyWords), CC BY-SA 4.0; German and Turkish words from Wiktionary (https://www.wiktionary.org), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wiktionary contributors (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
• Answers checked against Wikipedia lists
• Tweening: DOTween by Demigiant
• Everything else (code, game design, sound effects and music, all other pixel art): Mehmet Arda Köksal