Triad

A word puzzle game that lives in your system tray. Given three clue fragments, find the 4-letter key that completes all three to form full words.

Example: WARE / REAF / CON + FIRM = FIRMWARE / REAFFIRM / CONFIRM

Screenshots

How to Play

1. Three word fragments are displayed as clues
2. Type a 4-letter key using the on-screen or physical keyboard
3. Press Enter (or GO) to submit your answer
4. If correct, the tiles flip green. If wrong, they shake.

Lifelines

You get 3 lifelines per puzzle (accessible from the top-right menu):

• Reveal 1 position — switches the clue display to show letter positions
• Reveal last letter — locks the final letter of the key into place
• 50/50 — disables 13 incorrect keys from the keyboard

Tech Stack

• Tauri v2 — desktop runtime
• Svelte 5 — UI framework (using runes)
• TypeScript — type safety
• Tailwind CSS v3 — styling
• Vite — build tool
• Rust — backend (system tray, window management, persistence)

Prerequisites

• Rust
• Node.js (v18+)
• pnpm
• Platform-specific Tauri dependencies — see Tauri prerequisites

Development

# Install dependencies
pnpm install

# Run the app in development mode (frontend + Tauri)
pnpm tauri dev

# Run only the frontend dev server
pnpm dev

# Type check
pnpm check

Building

# Build the production desktop app
pnpm tauri build

Output bundles are located in src-tauri/target/release/bundle/.

Recommended IDE Setup

VS Code + Svelte + Tauri + rust-analyzer