Synonymy
Release date: Mar 5, 2015
Developers: Christopher Cinq-Mars Jarvis
Publishers: Christopher Cinq-Mars Jarvis
Genres: Casual, Strategy
Categories: Single-player, Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Family Sharing
Supported languages: English

Synonymy is a non-profit, educational word game narrated by Richard Dawkins where players are challenged to find a path between random words through their network of synonyms. By taking the synonym of a word, and then a synonym of that synonym, and so on, you can ultimately arrive at any other word in a language. The game supports multiplayer, and weekly challenges in which users can compete globally on set start and end words. Every time a path is uncovered by a user, it is tweeted from @synonymygame and posted to our Facebook page. All profits go to educational charities. A visualization of the game's network can be seen here -- -- In order to compute relative distance, all synonyms were mapped using 3d graphing software, as if each word were a planet that had a gravitational pull proportional to its number of relationships to other nodes. Above is a 2D representation of that model, a 40,000 x 40,000 rendering. Music by Daduk

Press reviews: “Synonymy is about the blurry edges of words that make carefully choosing them so much fun, the slight inflections you can add to draw connections.” Rock, Paper, Shotgun