Too lazy to read? Listen to AI talk about this page instead! Like Word Blender, the summary is mostly accurate and always a funny rabbit hole.
A game in which you blend words, names, or phrases together, finding a semantic mashup of the two.
To have fun.
Also, if you register as a user there is a multiplayer mode where you try to find a word. You can do this cooperatively, or as a competitive race.
Also as a registered user, you can see how you rank against other players on the leaderboard. Some people love leaderboards.
I wanted to learn some new technologies and that week my kids were playing Infinite Craft, so this is inspired by that. I have since learned that Little Alchemy predates Infinite Craft (and AI) by several years, but playing that also gives plenty of dopamine hits to people.
Lots of AI. Meta's llama 3 LLM model is in charge of the word salad, Google's ImageFX and Flux Schnell are in charge of the artwork, and OpenAI and DeepSeek take turns stepping up for emoji generation duties when Google's Gemini thinks a word is too spicy to touch.
See above about how AI is pumping out all the content. I don't have the time nor the inclination to review thousands of new things per day.
Also, Cocaine Christ + I Tunes Library = Lil Wayne's Discography might not make any sense, but who cares when you put those words together?
Because I prompted the AI to be an equal opportunity offender. The internet that the AI was trained on did all the rest.
Test audiences have deemed the results to be funny more often than offensive. To quote one person, "thanks AI for giving us the weird burns we didn't think of but very much appreciate."
Because I only have so many computers laying around my house.
More specifically, Word Blender is different than Infinite Craft and Little Alchemy in that every word has a single, unique build path. This is how it can do multiplayer search games efficiently, but it also means that as the number of words the system knows about grows, the longer the AI will have to take to find a word that isn't yet in use.
If you really want things to go faster, reach out to bench@wordblender.us and we can talk about what you might donate to the cause.
Cool! Reach out to bench@wordblender.us and let me know what it is.