Build a letter glitch background that is also a playable word search, for a daily puzzle app, on a full screen 2D canvas over newsprint cream (#f3eee3). Fill a grid of 36px cells (30px on phones) with bold monospace letters at 26% ink (#22212b). Hide 16 breakfast words, MARMALADE, PORRIDGE, CRUMPET, KETTLE, TOAST, HONEY and more, across, down or diagonally, never under the copy card. Every cell glitches to a random letter about once a second, some flashing tomato (#e8553e) or teal (#1f8a80). Within a 2.3 cell lens around the pointer, letters stop glitching and show the real grid at full ink, with a dashed teal ring marking the lens. When every letter of a hidden word has been revealed at once, it is found: a yellow (#ffd84a) highlighter capsule sweeps across it in 380ms and a live counter updates, "Breakfast, 3 of 16 found". A tap widens the lens. After 2.5s idle a ghost reader glides to an unfound word and traces it. When all are found, deal a new grid after 3.5s. Put the copy on a white card with a 2px ink border and a hard 8px shadow, a tomato label "Gridwick word search", a 50px headline "Find the words before the kettle boils" with "kettle" highlighted, one line, a teal "Play today's grid" button and the counter. Turn off the glitch for reduced motion.
Written by Informeek Studio to recreate this design. Prompts are not deterministic: running it again gives a similar result, not an identical one.
Use it in three steps
- Copy the prompt with the button above.
- Paste it into your tool, such as v0, Lovable, Bolt or Claude.
- Make it yours by changing the theme words and the flash colours.
About this letter glitch
A letter glitch background is usually pure noise: a wall of characters that flicker and change colour. This one hides a puzzle inside the noise. The grid is a real word search with sixteen breakfast words tucked in across, down and diagonally, but every letter keeps glitching to something random, with the odd one flashing tomato or teal. Move the cursor and a small reading lens calms the letters around it, showing the true grid. Pass over a whole word and a yellow highlighter sweeps across it, and the counter on the card ticks up.
Words are placed only where they can be seen, never under the copy card, so every one is findable on any screen size. When nobody is playing, a ghost reader glides to a word and traces it, which explains the game on a phone without a single instruction. Find them all and a fresh grid is dealt.
Why the prompt works
- It separates the true grid from the shown letters, so glitch and puzzle share one canvas.
- It defines found precisely, every letter revealed at once.
- It keeps words out from under the card.
- It uses a ghost reader as the tutorial.
Where to use it
Puzzle and word game apps, newspapers, language learning, libraries and literacy charities.
The prompt is shared under CC BY 4.0. Reuse it freely, including commercially, with a credit linking back to this page.
