🎮 Where Does the Hamza Sit?

📖 About this game

A game on the Arabic spelling lesson of the final hamza, whose conclusion reads: a final hamza is written according to these cases, on a yaa if the letter before it carries a kasra, on a waaw if that letter carries a damma, on an alif if it carries a fatha, and on the line if that letter is vowelless. The lesson opens with a set of scales, the vowel in one pan and its seat in the other, and says that a vowelless letter suits nothing, so the hamza is written on the line. Why the buttons are the four seats rather than the names of the vowels: spelling asks for a drawing and not for a label, the book own scale ends at the seat, and a learner who picks the seat has written the word while one who names the vowel may stop there. Why the word is shown without its hamza: the seat is the answer itself, so drawing it in the question would leave no question, while the vowel before it stays visible because it is the given the rule is applied to; the gap is then filled at the reveal and the vowel is named as proof. The distractors are the other three seats themselves, which is the mistake this lesson actually produces rather than an invented option. Three words per seat across twelve rounds, and the balance stops the learner from learning to guess instead of the rule. This English twin teaches Arabic rather than translating it. No sign-up.

🕹️ How to play

1. Read the Arabic word, or listen to it, with its hamza removed.
2. Look at the vowel on the letter just before the hamza.
3. Tap the matching seat: yaa, waaw, alif, or the bare hamza on the line.
4. Every word you get first try counts for you.