Text Twist 2 rebuilt with an updated dictionary

The 2008 word game reconstructed with REA and Ghidra so it can be played with a modern word list.

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Credits

Repository account jcchikikomori Source ↗

The full story

Text Twist 2 (GameHouse, 2008) shipped with word lists locked inside its Windows install. This project decoded the game logic and the .tree dictionary format with REA and Ghidra, then rebuilt the game in portable C++17 for desktop (SDL3) and Android. The author's main goal was to play it with a modern dictionary.

It ships a public-domain 2026 word list of 173,528 words. Swapping dictionaries is just a file swap, and there are no third-party libraries in the engine.

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From the maker's own write-up or code. We summarise what they report; we haven't tested it ourselves.

Awesome REA list: re-twist-tt2Code or repositorygithub.com
Repository account: jcchikikomori
Source, the dictionary format and build steps for desktop and Android.