Sticky Terms is a mobile game (available on Android and on iOS) where you move and rotate pieces that were sliced up from certain words, trying to reconstruct said words. The game features 250 so-called "untranslatable" words.
The words are split in several categories:
- 7 Fails
- 7 Metaphors
- 9 >>Moo<<
- 7 Yummy
- 7 Joy
- 7 Free time
- 7 Insults
- 7 Habits
- 7 Sayings
- 8 People
- 8 >>Ouch<<
- 8 Culture
- 8 Feelings
- 7 Food
- 7 Views
- 7 >>Thingamabob<<
- 8 Social
- 7 Measures
- 8 Cravings
- 8 Senses
- 8 Games
- 8 Show off
- 7 Japan
- 7 Cute
- 8 Body
- 8 Imagination
- 8 Details
- 7 Bad luck
- 9 Empathy
- 7 Favors
- 8 >>Like<<
- 7 Opposites
- 8 Effort
- 🇮🇹 Abbiocco: the urge to sleep after eating
- 🇮🇪 Aduantas: the uneasy feeling caused by unknown surroundings
- 🇯🇵 Age-Otori: looking worse after a haircut
- 🇭🇺 Agyilag zokni: »mentally, you are a sock«
- 🇯🇵 Aiaigasa: sharing an umbrella
- 🇲🇳 Airag: fermented horse milk
- 🏴 (Hawaii) Akihi: forgetting the way right after someone describes it
- 🏴 (Hawaii) Aloha: »presence of breath« — greeting, can also mean love or affection
- 🇬🇧 Anorak: someone with a strong interest in a boring topic
- 🇷🇴 Aoleu: the word you say when you feel sudden pain
- 🇫🇷 Appel du vide: »call of the void« — the subtle urge to do something self-destructive
- 🇩🇰 Arbejdsglæde: the joy of working in a good job
- 🇮🇪 Asclán: the amount of stuff that can be carried under one arm
- 🇮🇹 Attaccabottoni: »buttonholer« — someone who is capable of starting a conversation with literally anyone
- 🇩🇪 Aua: the word you say when you feel sudden pain
- 🇨🇦 Ayurnamat: philosophy of not worrying about unchangeable things
- 🇫🇷 Baisure: the spot where two breads touch while baking
- 🇯🇵 Bakkushan: someone who is more attractive from behind than from the front
- 🇵🇭 Balut: duck egg with partly developed embryo inside
- 🇯🇵 Ba-Taoshi: capture the flag game with 75 versus 75 players
- 🇮🇷 Bebin: »you see…« — filler word
- 🇮🇹 Bella Figura: a concept of beauty that involves impression as well as behavior
- (Bantu) Bilita Mpash: the opposite of a nightmare
- 🇵🇱 Biwak: improvised encampment
- 🇳🇱 Blaf blaf: the sound a dog makes
- 🇯🇵 Boketto: gazing vacantly into the distance
- 🇲🇽 Bol: »stupid in-laws«
- 🇪🇸 Bossaball: volleyball on an inflatable field
- 🇫🇷 Bricolage: solving a problem with material that happens to be available
- 🇮🇳 Buddhi: intuitive intelligence
- 🇧🇷 Cafuné: running your fingers through someone's hair
- 🏴 (Catalonia) Capicúa: a number that can be read from both directions
- 🇮🇹 Casu Marzu: cheese with living maggots inside
- 🇮🇹 Cavoli riscaldati: »reheated cabbage« — the attempt to restart a failed relationship
- 🇮🇳 Chai-Pani: »tea and water« — small favors to get things done
- 🇰🇷 Chimaek: chicken and beer
- 🇯🇵 Chindogu: useless invention
- 🏴 (Yiddish) Chutzpa: clever and irresistible cockiness [probably mispelled from chutzpah]
- 🇫🇷 Cocorico: the sound a rooster makes
- 🇫🇷 Coin coin: the sound a duck makes
- 🇮🇹 Coso: something you have forgotten the name of
- (Caribbean Spanish) Cotisuelto: someone who refuses to tuck in his shirt
- 🇮🇹 Culaccino: the wet ring left on the table under a glass
- 🇰🇷 Dapjeongneo: asking a question despite knowing the answer
- 🇸🇴 Dhicitaan: the word you say when you feel sudden pain
- 🇮🇹 Dietrologia: paranoia for hidden motives
- 🇩🇪 Dingsbums: something you have forgotten the name of
- 🇮🇳 Dohada: the appetite of pregnant women
- 🇭🇺 Donaldkacsázás: »Donald-Duck-ing« — wearing a shirt and no pants
- 🇸🇪 Dumbom: »stupid road barrier«
- 🇸🇪 Dygn: 24 hour time period (other than 'dag', meaning day as daytime)
- 🇫🇷 Déjà Vu: the strange feeling that you have already experienced an unknown situation
- 🇿🇦 Eina: the word you say when you feel sudden pain
- 🇮🇳 Engili: food that someone has already taken a bite of
- 🇳🇱 Epibreren: pretending to do something important
- 🇯🇵 Eshaku: casual bow of 15 degrees
- 🇪🇸 Estrenar: using something for the first time
- 🇫🇮 Eukonkanto: wife carrying tournament
- 🇼🇸 Faamiti: squeaky noise people make to get the attention of pets and children
- 🇮🇹 Fare la scarpetta: »making the little shoe« — mopping up sauce leftovers with a piece of bread
- 🏴 (Yiddish) Fargin: honestly appreciating the success of others
- 🏴 (Yiddish) Farpotshket: trying to fix something, thereby ruining it
- 🇫🇷 Faux frais: things you usually forget when calculating a budget
- 🇫🇷 Faux Pas: unintended violation of unwritten rule
- 🇵🇰 Flana flana: »this and that« — filler word
- 🇩🇪 Fremdscham: vicarious embarassment
- 🇳🇴 Friluftsliv: concept of the positive impact of being outside
- 🇫🇷 Froufrou: the rustling of a skirt
- 🇱🇦 Gaeng Kai Mot Daeng: soup with ants in various stages
- 🇩🇪 Gesundheit!: »health« — building upon the old belief that the plague begins with a sneeze
- 🇮🇷 Ghiqq: the sound of a boiling kettle
- 🇺🇸 Ghosting: completely shutting someone out digitally
- 🇵🇭 Gigil: the urge to squeeze something that is too cute to ignore
- 🏴 Glas Wen: »blue smile« — smiling to mock someone
- 🇵🇰 Goya: story that is being told so well that it becomes reality in your mind
- 🇪🇸 Grima: the shiver you get from thinking of scratching over a chalkboard with your nails
- 🇹🇷 Gumusservi: moonlight reflecting on a sea
- 🇨🇳 Guo guo: the sound a frog makes
- (Arab League) Gurfa: the amount of water that fits in one hand
- 🇸🇪 Gökotta: rising especially early to hear the birds sing
- 🇳🇦 Hanyauku: tiptoieng over a hot surface [mispelled from tiptoeing]
- 🇯🇵 Hari Kuyo: ceremony for broken sewing needles
- 🇮🇩 Holopis kuntul baris: a phrase to summon strength before carrying heavy objects
- 🇳🇱 Huppeldepup: something you have forgotten the name of
- 🇩🇰 Hygge: emotional cosiness
- 🇯🇵 Ikigai: the personal reason for living
- 🇮🇳 Ikkada entante: »what's here is…« — filler word
- 🇨🇦 Iktsuarpok: constantly going outside to check if the anticipated guest is coming
- 🇮🇩 Jayus: someone who tells a joke so unfunny that it is funny again
- 🇮🇳 Jijivisha: the desire to live
- 🇸🇮 Joj: the word you say when you feel sudden pain
- 🇫🇷 Jubjoter: trying to fall asleep again after waking up, to see how a dream ends
- 🇮🇸 Jæja: universal word that can mean anything, depending on situation and tone
- 🇱🇻 Kaapshljmurslis: riding in a hopelessly jammed bus or train
- 🇮🇳 Kabaddi: tag game, chaser yelling "Kabaddi" until running out of air
- 🇩🇪 Kabelsalat: »cable salad« — a bunch of cables that are fatally entangled
- 🇬🇷 Kala: »good…« — filler word
- 🇮🇳 Kalpa: the time span between the formation and recreation of the universe
- 🇫🇮 Kalsarikänni: getting drunk at home in your underwear
- 🇮🇳 Karelu: the mark left on the skin from wearing something tight
- 🇯🇵 Kawaii: culture of cuteness
- 🇯🇵 Keirei: respectful bow of 30 degrees
- 🇮🇩 Kekau: suddenly waking up because something bad happened in your dreams
- 🇮🇩 Kesemutan: the feeling of a numb body part waking up
- 🇯🇵 Komorebi: sunlight shining through leaves
- 🇮🇩 Kontal-Kontil: the swaying of clothes and earrings while walking
- 🇩🇪 Korinthenkacker: »raisin pooper« — exceptionally pedantic person
- 🇷🇺 Koshatnik: a dealer of stolen cats
- 🇹🇭 Kreng-Jai: the desire to not disturb the happiness of others
- 🇸🇪 Kubb: lawn game with the goal of knocking down all blocks by throwing a stick at them
- 🇩🇪 Kummerspeck: »grief blubber« — the weight that a sad person gains
- 🇸🇪 Lagom: just the right amount
- 🇮🇹 Lampadato: someone having spent a lot of time on a sunbed
- 🇵🇭 Layogenic: someone who is only attractive from a distance
- 🇬🇧 Liberosis: the desire to care less
- 🇺🇸 Like: filler word
- 🇨🇿 Litost: sudden realization of one's own misery
- 🇹🇭 Lou: raw pig blood soup
- 🏴 (Yiddish) Luftmensch: »air person« — someone living in their dreams
- 🇵🇭 Luksong-Baka: children's game — jumping over a crouched player that is raising with each round
- 🇧🇷 Luta de Galo: children's game — stealing your opponent's scarf while hopping on one leg
- 🇫🇮 Löyly: the steam that develops from water being poured over hot sauna stones
- 🇪🇸 Madrugada: the time between midnight and dawn
- 🇭🇺 Madárlátta: food that you carry around the whole trip without actually eating it
- 🇨🇳 Majie: cursing the street instead of a person
- 🇭🇺 Mangalica: woolly pig
- (Arab League) Mardi aalai: being parentally blessed, understood as the highest virtue
- 🇷🇺 Matryoshka: wooden dolls that can be stacked inside each other
- 🇮🇱 Matzav Kapit: »spoon state« — hysterical mood when everything is funny
- 🇯🇵 Ma: the consciousness of empty space
- 🇮🇩 Mbek: the sound a sheep makes
- 🇮🇩 Mencolek: tapping someone on the other side of the shoulder, making him turn into the wrong direction
- 🇬🇷 Meraki: perceiving work as hardly stressful, because of the joy of doing it
- 🇵🇬 Mokita: common knowledge that no one dares to talk about
- 🇬🇧 Moo: the sound a cow makes
- 🇮🇷 Nakhur: camels that refuse to give milk before their nostrils are tickled
- (Arab League) Na'eeman: greeting after shower or makeover
- 🇯🇵 Nekama: man who pretends to be a woman (or the other way around), online
- 🇮🇩 Neko-Neko: a well-meant idea that makes everything worse
- 🇿🇦 Ngalimala: the word you say when you feel sudden pain
- 🇰🇷 Nunchi: trying to evaluate your counterpart's mood
- 🇪🇪 Nunnumeeter: cuteness scale
- 🇯🇵 Nyah: the sound a cat makes
- 🇭🇺 Nyihaha: the sound a horse makes
- 🇸🇪 Nöff nöff: the sound a pig makes
- 🇲🇳 Odoo: »now…« — filler word
- 🇩🇪 Ohrwurm: »ear worm« — music that sticks in one's mind
- 🇭🇺 Okosba: doing something the cheaper but illegal way
- 🇯🇵 Omotenashi: unconditionally wholehearted hospitality
- 🇬🇧 Onism: the grief over the fact that you are caught in your own body
- 🇱🇰 Oodal: melodramatic anger about something minor in a relationship
- 🇵🇱 Oscypek: smoked elastic hard cheese
- 🇷🇺 Ostranenie: presenting familiar objects in a way that they appear unfamiliar
- (Esperanto) Ouch: the word you say when you feel sudden pain
- 🇭🇷 Ovaj: »this one…« — filler word
- 🏴 (Hawaii) Pana po'o: scratching your head to remember something
- 🇨🇰 Papakata: having one leg that is shorter than the other one
- 🇬🇷 Parea: group of people who meet to share philosophies and values
- 🇬🇭 Pelinti: shoving food around in your mouth because it is too hot
- 🇵🇹 Pesamenteiro: someone who attends funerals just for the food
- 🇫🇷 Petit four: »small oven« — bite-sized confectionary
- 🇬🇧 Petrichor: the smell of the earth after rain
- 🇲🇾 Pisan Zapra: the time it takes to eat a banana
- 🇸🇪 Plupp: something you have forgotten the name of
- 🇷🇺 Pochemuchka: a child that asks many questions
- 🇳🇱 Polderen: solving problems with words
- 🇫🇮 Poron Kusema: the distance a reindeer can travel without having to pee
- 🇨🇿 Prozvonit: calling someone, but hanging up after the first ring, to let the other one call you back
- 🇩🇰 Pyt: swearword with the implication of life going on
- 🇮🇹 Qualunquismo: «whateverism» — political indifference
- 🇮🇳 Rasa: the aesthetic »essence« of something that cannot be put in words
- 🇫🇷 Rire dans sa bbarbe: »laugh in one's beard« — chuckling to oneself
- 🇬🇧 Rubatosis: the unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat
- 🇨🇳 Rè nao: place with such a good vibe that everyone wants to be there
- 🇮🇪 Sabhsaí: someone who works outside, no matter how bad the weather is
- 🇯🇵 Saikeirei: most respectful bow of 45-70 degrees
- 🇱🇻 Sakta: the word you say when you feel sudden pain
- 🇺🇦 Salo: cured slabs of pork fat
- 🇵🇹 Saudade: longing for something that is lost
- 🇫🇮 Saunakalja: drinking beer during sauna
- 🇵🇭 Sayang: wasted efforts
- 🇩🇪 Schadenfreude: »joy of harm« — the pleasure of witnessing another's failures
- 🏴 (Yiddish) Schlimazel: chronically unlucky person
- 🇮🇩 Semut Orang Gajah: rock, paper, scissors, but with »ant, person, elephant«
- 🇲🇾 Sepak Takraw: volleyball like artistic sport, played only with feet
- 🇬🇧 Serendipity: finding something while looking for something else
- 🇮🇹 Sfizio: something you don't need, but want
- 🏴 Sgriob: the itchiness of the upper lip before you take a sip of whiskey
- 🇬🇪 Shemomedjamo: accidentally eating everything
- 🇯🇵 Shoganai: accepting, even being motivated by things that are beyond your control
- 🇪🇸 Siesta: traditional Spanish after-lunch nap
- 🇪🇹 Silbabot: »You are the fatty layer on my warm milk«
- 🇫🇮 Sisu: supposedly unique Finnish mental strength
- 🇩🇪 Sitt: the opposite of thirsty
- 🇩🇪 Sitzfleisch: »sitting meat« — the stamina to sit things out
- 🇸🇪 Skämskudde: the urge to hide your face in a pillow when feeling embarrased
- 🇮🇸 Slydda: annoying mixture of rain and snow
- 🇷🇴 Soare cu Dinti: »sun with teeth« — weather that looks great until you actually walk outside
- 🇪🇸 Sobremesa: staying at the table for another hour after an exhaustively heavy meal
- 🇸🇪 Solkatt: the sun being reflected by a small surface, like a wristwatch
- 🇬🇧 Sticky terms: A game about words without a translation
- 🏴 Suilk: eating abnormally loud
- 🇸🇪 Surströmming: fermented fish with an intense, rotten smell
- 🏴 (Sardinia)Su Callu Sardu: cheese made from baby goat's stomach filled with its mother's milk
- 🇺🇸 S'More: campfire sandwich from graham crackers, marshmallow and chocolate
- 🇯🇵 Tachiyomi: reading books in a bookstore without buying them
- 🇳🇪 Tallabe: carrying things on your head
- 🇨🇳 Tangram: geometric 7 part dissection puzzle
- (Arab League) Taraadin: aiming for the perfect solution for all parties
- (Arab League) Tarab: ecstatic feeling when music catches you
- 🇮🇷 Tarof: etiquette that your counterpart is worth denying your own will
- 🏴 Tartle: the moment you struggle remembering someone's name
- 🇮🇩 Tengkurap: sleeping face-down
- 🇺🇸 Thingamabob: something you have forgotten the name of
- 🇮🇸 Thrumari: »thunderbread« — rye bread, named after the flatulences it causes
- (Easter Island) Tingo: borrowing everything one by one, until nothing is left
- 🇷🇺 Toska: severe sadness, often with no specific cause
- (Arab League) Toz aalaik: »a fart in your direction«
- 🇪🇸 Trasnochar: staying up all night
- 🏴 (Yiddish) Trepverter: »stepwords« — the perfect riposte that comes to your mind when it is already too late
- 🇸🇪 Tretår: the third refill
- 🇸🇪 Träsmak: sore bottom from sitting on something hard
- 🇯🇵 Tsundoku: piling up books that no one will ever read
- 🇪🇸 Tuerto: one-eyed person
- 🇹🇭 Tuk Tuk: auto rickshaw
- 🇳🇴 Uff da!: expression of sympathy when someone is in pain
- 🇳🇱 Uitwaaien: taking a walk when it is windy
- 🇯🇵 Umami: »delicious« — the fifth basic taste (savoury)
- 🇳🇴 Utepils: the joy of drinking beer outside
- 🇸🇪 Vabba: staying at home from work because child is sick
- 🇪🇸 Vacilando: wandering as a process, not for reaching a specific destination
- 🇸🇪 Vaska: ordering two bottles of champagne to pour one in the sink, showcasing your wealth
- 🇮🇸 Vesen: something that is more complicated than it has to be
- 🇷🇺 Vot: »here it is…« — filler word
- 🇨🇿 Vybafnout: jumping out to scare someone
- 🇯🇵 Wabi Sabi: aesthetical concept of beauty in traces of usage or aging
- (Arab League) Wasta: using your connections to get things done
- 🇨🇳 Wei-wu-wei: the wisdom of doing nothing
- 🇩🇪 Weltschmerz: »world pain« — universal melancholy
- (Arab League) Yalla!: »Let's go!«
- 🇫🇷 Yaourt: »yoghurt« — singing along using made up words
- (Arab League) Ya'aburnee: »You bury me« — the affectionate wish that a loved person outlives you
- 🇯🇵 Yoko Meshi: »eating sideways« — the stress of speaking another language
- 🇹🇷 Zamazingo: something you have forgotten the name of
- (Arab League) Zankha: the unpleasant smell or after-taste of food gone bad
- 🇷🇺 Zapoi: withdrawing from society to be drunk for an exceptionally long time
- 🇩🇪 Zeitgeist: »time spirit« — the mood of a certain period
- 🇮🇷 Zhaghzhagh: feeling so cold or angry that your teeth chatter
- 🇫🇷 Zinzin: something you have forgotten the name of
- 🇫🇷 À contre-coeur: deciding against what your heart tells you
Sticky Terms is a game by Philipp Stollenmayer from Kamibox.de
