Survive Your Ideas Words List

Every Confirmed Word, With Evidence

Survive Your Ideas runs on a fixed catalog of words that trigger real effects, wrapped in a system that also accepts anything else you type. The distinction matters: catalogued words produce their documented hazard, unlock an Index entry and pay a one-time Cash bonus in your Word Diary — while unknown inputs improvise. This page lists only words with verified evidence, organized by hazard family, with survival counter-play for each. Word detail pages go deeper on the individual heavyweights.

Before the list, the honest framing: the game's official Collector badge asks for 150 discovered words, and no verified public catalog of all 150 exists. The Word Diary lives inside the game, and no outlet — us included — has documentably enumerated every entry. What we can do is what this page does: every word below cites its evidence (official copy, first-party art, or multi-outlet coverage), and the list grows the moment new words are confirmed rather than being padded with guesses.

What Happens When You Type An Unknown Word

Unknown inputs are one of the game's best features, and the behavior is documented rather than mysterious. When your word is not in the catalog:

• The game maps your input to the closest existing effect and triggers that instead.
• Or it spawns an NPC that carries the name of whatever you typed.

That second path — a same-named NPC spawning from whatever string you typed — is why the game's social feeds overflow with bespoke chaos. It also means the gap between the catalog and the practical word space is enormous: every player is a content generator, and the fixed 150-entry diary only tracks the documented layer. For picking words with intent (rather than for laughs), the best words ranking sorts the confirmed list by situation, and the Meta Words page covers the purchased slash-commands that supercharge any word you type.

How The Word Diary And Index Work

The Word Diary is your personal discovery log. When you enter a catalogued word — or it appears in a match you are in, per current community reports — its Index entry unlocks and pays a one-time Cash bonus. Index entries are grouped into sections, and the discoveries roll toward the Collector badge, whose official requirement is exactly 150 words. There is a real strategic tension here: your writer turns are limited, so every turn spent typing a safe unknown-to-you catalog entry is a turn not spent pressuring the lobby. Experienced players bank diary entries early in matches (when the arena is calm) and save pressure words for the late game — the reverse of what most first-timers do.

Word Diary progress also feeds the economy. Those one-time discovery bonuses are the main non-survival Cash source, and Cash is the gate on all six Cash-side Meta Words (250K to 750K each, 2.55M for the full set). In other words: the player who methodically fills the diary buys /double weeks before the player who only types NUKE. Our Cash Planner turns your play schedule into exact unlock dates for each one.

Words We Are Watching For

The catalog grows — the game was updated the same morning this page was last verified, and update waves have been adding words since early November (one tracked update log cites "40+ words" in a single content patch, community-reported). Coverage priority goes to words that appear in official copy first, then multi-outlet confirmations, then in-game screenshots from the developer's own channels. When a new word clears that bar, it joins the table above with its evidence noted — and when a word's behavior changes in an update, the entry gets re-verified rather than left stale. If you spot a word in-game that is missing here, the evidence bar is simple: a screenshot from an official channel or two independent written sources.