How to Play

In this game, you form words by rearranging letters from a word that's given to you. All words you make must be at least 3 (three) letters long. Why? It might make you think a little more. In addition, punctuation is not allowed. You won't even be able to type punctuation, numbers, spaces, etc. anyway. Only letters are allowed and will be able to be typed.

During this game, you'll be using a custom keyboard I made. This keyboard contains the letters A-Z, a return/enter button (↵) used to submit your word, and a backspace button (⇤) in case you type a wrong letter. If you're using a mobile device, its keyboard will be disabled. If you're on a laptop or desktop, you can either type on your keyboard, or click on the keys of the custom keyboard. I set up this custom keyboard to give you more viewing space. When I was using this site on my iPhone before adding the custom keyboard, there wasn't much space left to view the game's content. I'm thinking of adding a toggle to switch between custom keyboard and device's keyboard in the future.

As you submit words, you may see some messages appear below the textfield. These are errors. A message will only appear if an error occurres. The types of errors include: your word is to short, your word may not be a real word, and a word you entered has too many of a given letter and or contains letters that are not in the word that is given to you. These messages will go away by themselves shortly after they appear.

There are 2 (two) ways to make words. The first, is simply by typing in the textfield provided. The second, is by tapping on the letters in the word given to you. As you tap each letter, that letter will appear in the textfield. Both methods are always an option and can be switched between at any time. Whichever method you use, hit the enter/return button on the keyboard when you're ready to submit your word.

As you make words, you'll also get points for each letter in those words. The points from each word you make will be added to your points total. If you want to know how many points each letter is worth, think of Scrabble. Each letter in this game has the same value as in Scrabble. In this game though, you won't get double letter, double word, triple letter, triple word, etc. point multipliers.

There are two levels in this game, easy and normal. In easy (level 1), you can use each letter as many times as you want. In normal (level 2), you can only use each letter, at most, as many times as it appears in the word. Normal makes things more challenging and might make the game more fun! You can generate a new word at anytime, just be warned, by generating a new word your progress will be lost, your total words found and total points. If you want to change your level, you'll be able to at the end of each game. At the start of each new game, your total words found and total points will be reset. Each game stands alone and isn't built upon or related to previous plays.

Something else you should know, you'll be timed. Each game gives you 5 (five) minutes to find as many words and generate as many points as you can. If you generate a new word, even though you'll loose your total words found and total points, the timer will still keep ticking. When the timer hits 10 (ten) seconds, the timer will turn red and pulse. When the timer hits 0 (zero), it's game over. You'll then be able to review the words you've found and the total points you've received. It's here where you'll also be able to change your level, if desired, and play again, if desired.

NOTE: To verify that entered words are real words, I use a source on another computer somewhere in the world. Due to what I'm guessing is an issue on that end, there are some words, including common words, that this game will count as not being real words. If this happens to you, no need to retry the word, unless you're double checking your spelling, I know about the issue, just enjoy the game!

Examples

Want some examples on how to play? Look no further, you're here! If you want to skip right to the game, just scroll down and hit that play button!

Easy mode examples (level 1)

Let's say the word is ostrich.

Valid word examples
  • rich (rich is a word)
  • hitch (there's an h)
  • roosts (ostrich has an o and an s)
Invalid examples
  • rose (ostrich does not have an e)
  • it's (punctuation not allowed)
  • ostrich (no free words)

Normal mode examples (level 2)

Let's say the word is crocodile.

Valid word examples
  • hits (hits is a word)
  • riot (riot is a word)
  • shirt (shirt is a word)
Invalid examples
  • I'd (punctuation not allowed)
  • decode (crocodile has one d and e)
  • crocodile (no free words)
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