Hnahsin Games
Learn Mizo words by playing. Free, on any phone, no sign-up.
Play here: https://thadomaloma.github.io/hnahsin-play/
What you can play
- Rova's Journey. Rova runs across Mizoram, from the hills to Phawngpui.
Jump into the door with the right Mizo word. Five levels, with Mizo
sayings (tawng upa) and sentences at the end of each level.
- Hnahsin Playground. 33 games:
- word quests: Word dungeon (beat monsters with Mizo words), Falling letters,
Crossword cave (a crossword that lights up word by word)
- word puzzles: Spelling bee, Waffle, Strands, Word tubes, Sort it
- quick games: Rova run, Bubble pop, Whack the rat
- everyday Mizo: Bazar, I Spy, Count, Dress Rova, Big and small, Days and
times, Rova says, Colour it, Rova's family, Weather report, Food stall
- sentences and sayings: Sentence builder, Saying match
- Review: the words you have met in the games come back when they are due
- from the Hnahsin app, just as they are in the app: Picture Match, Spelling,
Word Search, Word Chain, Tawng Upa, Crossword, Odd One Out, Sentence Builder
- Touch and learn. Things you can tap, turn and play with, to learn their
Mizo names, with Find it to test yourself. Zokhua: an old Mizo village as at
Falkawn, with its stockade and gate, the chief's house and the zawlbuk, the
adviser's and ordinary houses, the forge and the memorials, each to visit
with its story, by day or evening. Also La siam: nu makes thread from cotton
in six steps, from the cotton gin to the warp. Puan tah: pi weaves a Mizo
puan on her loom, with every tool named, and the five famous Mizo puans to
learn about and weave. Bazar dâwr: Rova shops at a market stall from a list
in Mizo numbers. And Kumtluang: a year in an old Mizo village as one long
picture, January to December, to drag through or play: the forest cut, burnt
and sown, the rice weeded in the rains, standing in the mist, harvested and
threshed, with each month's weather and festival (Pâwlkut, Chapchar Kut, Mim
Kut, Khuangchawi), the month's name in English and Mizo at the top, and the
name of anyone or anything you tap.
- Aizawl Ride. Ride a scooter along real Aizawl roads to deliver a parcel:
from Millennium Centre to Civil Hospital, or down past Vanapa Hall and the
Assembly House to Chawnga Road, in 3D. The bends, hills, hillsides and houses
come from OpenStreetMap and Copernicus elevation data. Mizo words come up for what
you ride past. Your points open four scooter designs (everyday, classic,
sport and electric) and colours named by Mizo colour words. Every day brings
three new missions; deliveries win up to three stars; medals and stars raise
your rider rank, and each rank adds to your scores. Coins buy the rider a
helmet, a jacket and a delivery box (even one in a Mizo puan's stripes), and
every ride ends with a Mizo word to answer. Tips show you how to play on your
first rides; the game can be played in Mizo or in English; and the scooter,
the wind and the birds have their own sounds. Ride at night (by Aizawl's own
clock) under the street lamps, or in the rain; at Krismas the town is hung with
stars and lights, and at Chapchar Kut with flags, each with a prize to win. On the Aizawl map you deliver
between 26 veng along real roads, past houses at their real heights; more
veng open as your points grow. Share the road with cars, buses and bikes,
wait your turn in traffic jams and stop for people at zebra crossings, the
Aizawl way.
- The Hnahsin app. A preview of the app in your browser. The app is
coming to Android and iPhone.
A word of the day on the home page: tap the card to see what it means.
Words
- 1,254 Mizo words, 383 sentences and 203 sayings from the Hnahsin app
- 1,928 more words from J.F. Laldailova's English–Lushai Dictionary
- photos from Wikimedia Commons (credited in the app) and pictures from
Microsoft's Fluent Emoji
Put it on your phone
The games work like an app and play without internet after the first visit.
- iPhone: open the link in Safari and tap Add Hnahsin to your Home Screen: a short
guide shows the three taps (Share, Add to Home Screen, Add).
- Android: open the link in Chrome and tap Install Hnahsin.
Privacy
The site counts which pages and games are opened and won, with
GoatCounter. It uses no cookies and keeps
nothing that tells who you are. Your stars and levels stay on your phone.
For developers
The pages are plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript, served by GitHub Pages.
The sources and build scripts they are made from are kept private.
Versions and feedback
Copyright
© 2026 Maloma Thado. All rights reserved.
You are welcome to play the games. Please do not copy the code, words,
pictures or design into another site or app without asking first.
Developed by Maloma Thado.
