How to play

Find a path through the word forest

Choose a tree

Your starting word and destination appear on a fixed map of up to 110 words. Outlined trees are reachable. Each one is closer to the destination on the map, so every successful step moves you forward.

Find the closest meaning

Click a reachable tree to reveal its word and five possible matches. Choose the most closely related word to unlock that tree. The tree’s word becomes your current location; the answer simply unlocks it.

Keep trying

A wrong answer turns red and is removed from play. You lose 25 points but stay on the same question until you find the answer. You never move backward. Finish the current question before choosing another tree.

Reach the destination

Start with 1,000 points and keep as many as you can. Longer routes do not award extra points. Solve the destination’s question to finish. Your result also shows how many trees you solved on the first try. Forest scores are separate from the legacy journey leaderboard.

Reading the map

PCA projects word vectors onto two dimensions, with small spacing adjustments to separate trees. Neighborhoods suggest related meanings, but flattening a vector loses information. Questions use cosine similarity in the original vectors, so screen distance does not determine the answer.