Pyraphemes: A New Word-Building Puzzle
A third game joins the Pyralinks family, built on combining word fragments.
Published February 16, 2026
We are excited to announce Pyraphemes, a brand-new puzzle game that uses the same pyramid structure you know from Pyragrams but with a completely different kind of connection. Instead of linking words into bigrams, Pyraphemes gives you word fragments. Each node in the pyramid holds a word fragment, and every linked parent-child pair combines to form a complete word - with the parent providing the first part and the child providing the second.
How It Works
The core mechanic is the same as other Pyralink games: you are given interconnected items arranged in a pyramid, and you need to swap them into position so that every parent-child pair shares a valid link. You mark links you are confident about, submit guesses to get feedback, and refine until every connection is correct.
What changes is the nature of the link itself. In Pyraphemes, each node holds a word fragment, and two linked nodes combine their fragments to spell out a real word. The parent node is always the first part and the child node is always the second part. For example, if a parent holds "gar" and a child holds "den," they form "garden." If that same "den" node has a child holding "im," they form "denim."
A Different Kind of Challenge
Pyragrams rewards semantic and idiomatic knowledge - knowing that "point" and "blank" form "point blank," or that "blank" and "check" form "blank check." Pyraphemes rewards a different skill: the ability to see how word fragments fit together. You need to mentally combine pieces and ask "is that a real word?" over and over, testing different arrangements. It exercises pattern recognition and spelling intuition rather than word association.
The pyramid structure makes this especially interesting because each internal node pulls double duty - it is the ending of the word it forms with its parent and the beginning of the word it forms with each child. Finding a fragment that works in both directions is the core challenge, and the overlapping constraints mean you need to think about the whole tree, not just individual pairs.
Same App, New Puzzle Type
Pyragrams, Pyrithmetic, and Pyraphemes are all contained in the same app. You can switch between the puzzle types from the main menu. Each has its own daily puzzle, its own history, and its own stats. If you are already a Pyralinks player, there is nothing new to install - just open the app and look for Pyraphemes.
Quick Comparison
- Pyragrams: Word pairs that have meaning (semantic and idiomatic connections)
- Pyrithmetic: Mathematical expressions
- Pyraphemes: Word fragments that combine to spell real words
- All: Same pyramid structure, same swap-and-guess mechanics, same daily format
Try It Today
Pyraphemes is available now. Whether you have been playing Pyralinks since day one or you are brand new to pyramid puzzles, Pyraphemes offers a fresh challenge that exercises a different part of your brain. Give it a try and see how your word-building instincts compare to your word association skills.
