Speak with your eyes
Listen with your heart™
WordTrails is a game where everyone creates paths together using word chips and action cards. There’s just one rule: no explanations allowed! As players take turns adding to the trails, everyone holds a few special trinkets. When someone plays a word or action that feels true or meaningful to you, you can place your trinket on it – a quiet way of saying “that feels real to me too.”
The magic happens when all the trinkets have been placed. These special pieces – the ones that touched different players – come together to form new patterns and stories. You might find your own meaning in how they connect, or just let the pattern speak for itself.
As 8-year-old Presley puts it, “I can tell people how I’m feeling without having to say it.” It’s a game that lets everyone share what’s real for them while discovering what matters to others – in a space where no one will be asking you to explain why.
What is happening here?
WordTrails offers the chance to slow things down together. Everything is back on the table: all the possibilities, all the questions and all the actions that might be taken. Players get to re-enter the world as it is right now, with all options reinstated.
What is new?
In the WordTrails version of the world, there is no such thing as explanation.
WordTrails feels like getting to talk with a trusted friend where there is no such thing as shame or judgment, but rather curiosity and exploration.Suddenly, there is space enough and time enough for taking it all in. For walking together, listening carefully, considering things, taking next steps and exchanging trinkets of appreciation.
In this space, all the history of who we have been, who we are supposed to be – individually and together – no longer exists. We are free to explore this present moment together, with a clean slate.
Is it really a game?
Like any adventure worth its salt, while it is, in its own way, a game, it is also a puzzle and many know it as a tool for learning things you cannot get except through actual physical experience. WordTrails ticks all the key adventure boxes: Safety, fun and learning.
MORE ABOUT THE
WORDTRAILS™
EXPERIENCE
Learn more
here
WHERE DID
WORDTRAILS™
COME FROM
Why & how the game came to be; the results of five years of testing
WHAT PEOPLE ARE
SAYING ABOUT
WORDTRAILS™
First-hand accounts about connection and communication
5% of proceeds of WORDTRAILS™ Founder’s Edition will be donated to Playa Viva’s community initiatives and the Tortuga Viva Sea Turtle Sanctuary.
