What's New
February 5, 2026
🇯🇵 Japan Update!
At last... You can now play Danobang in Japanese! We currently support kana and kanji game modes.
- Kana mode: Type a word that contains the given kana prompt (e.g. if prompt is "ゆき" valid words could be "ゆきだるま", "こゆき", "はつゆき", etc)
- Kanji mode: Type a word in kana whose kanji form contains the given kanji prompt (e.g. if prompt is "食", valid words could be "しょくじ", "たべる", "ゆうしょく", etc)
- Desktop input is romaji based but you don't need to convert to the Japanese keyboard since we auto-convert english to kana. On mobile we support both romaji and kana flick.
- The dictionary is sourced from JMDict with some filtering applied to exclude NSFW words and expressions/phrases.
January 20, 2026
- 📍 Added "Prompt Position" setting for custom rooms! This allows you to specify where prompts can appear in a given answer i.e. "anywhere", "start", "end". There's also a "random" option that will randomly choose a position each turn.
- 🎨 Removed blue and green bomb colors from daily challenges. Previously we used colors to indicate the prompt position i.e. red would be "anywhere", blue would be "starts with", and green would be "ends with". However this wasn't very clear, so now we use "..." in the prompt text to better indicate the prompt position.
- 🏷️ Adjusted feedback messages that appear when you submit invalid answers
January 16, 2026
- 📜 Added a post-match results modal that that show you how many new words you've collected + an inline match leaderboard.
- ✏️ Replaced "Danodex" copy with "Word Collection" for English locale
- 📊 Homepage, Word Collection page, Match History page, and Player page, now show you stats from ALL matches by default.
- You still have the option to see stats from multiplayer only matches
- Win count moved from homepage to match history page
- 🎨 Player card UI revamp (no more flip animations to keep things simple)