Word Puttz is a single player game for mobile devices.
Gameplay[]
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On each level, the player is presented with a miniature golf hole, including a tee and a cup; other obstacles may also be present. The objective is to create words using a given set of letter tiles to create a path from the tee to the hole, in the manner of Scrabble. The player is scored based on how few words they use, as well as point values of those letters in the words.
For the most part, a Word Puttz course requires you to "spell" your way to the hole within a certain number of tiles / balls. If you run out of letters before you reach the end of a course, your game is over - though you have the option to buy some more letters for 69p / 99c.
Reaching the hole within your allotted number of letters isn't always easy, however. Word Puttz's putting green is littered with rocks, molluscs, and other objects that keep you from spelling whatever you want wherever you want. Visualising the placement of your letters is vitally important, then.
For one, there are coins you can grab with your word tiles for big point bonuses (a very important item, given you usually need to hit a minimum score to make the hole open up). And there are even secondary holes that warp you to different parts of the course.
Word Puttz has a few quirks. There are, for example, stages in which you "race" Octo as both of you spell your way to the hole, or you attempt to get all the coins on a course before he does. Octo moves super-fast in these contests. And more often than not, with crummy letters. At this stage, need a good vocabulary.
Ideas before abolition[]
Jackbox Games writes that it’s hard to believe Word Puttz was only out for a year before we took it out of the market. Sometimes in this industry you put a bunch of work into a game and it just doesn’t catch on.
The Pirate Manatee from the scrapped manatee mode.
What most people probably don’t know is that there is an entire unreleased “manatee” mode in Word Puttz with dozens of very difficult levels… and a freakin’ pirate manatee!
General Manager, Mike, brought in this diorama of game Word Puttz that his daughter made him for Father’s Day.
Was also a note from his son, which said, “Dear Daddy… Thank you for making awesome video games like Fly Swater. Did you know I say I like Minecraft the most, but I really like the video games that you make the most.”
Trivia[]
 Golfin the Grey |
  Owen always had such a way with art! |
- Like many of the mobile apps created by Jackbox Games: the game has it's very own Twitter!
- Word Puttz was originally going to have multiple hosts, like Golfin the Grey. That idea was however scrapped before the game released.
- In the introduction tutorial for Monster Seeking Monster, a portrait of Octoputtz can be seen off to the side¹.
- In The Wheel of Enormous Proportions' SWF files: Word Puttz is used as placeholder text for "Guessing Questions".[↑]
- On Thursday, August 31st, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Owen Watson posted fanart he made for the game in the Jackbox Games Discord Server's fanart channel, with the caption "my very own word puttz fan art".