Goal
Use all 12 tiles, no leftovers and none used twice, to spell out a set of complete English words.
How a tile becomes part of a word
- Click a tile in the Available tiles tray. It moves into the Building row at the bottom and lights up green.
- Click more tiles to keep extending. The order you click is the order they appear in the word. The preview to the right of Lock word shows what you've built so far.
- Click an already-selected tile (in either the tray or the builder) to remove it from the build.
- When the builder shows a real word, click Lock word. The tiles disappear from the tray, the word goes into the locked list below, and you start fresh on the next word.
- Repeat until every tile is used. The puzzle marks itself solved when the tile counter hits zero.
- Click Shuffle any time to rearrange the tiles in the tray. Useful if a different layout helps you spot a word.
The catch
Many tiles fit into multiple potential words, but only one combination uses all 12 tiles. So locking greedily can strand you with leftovers that don't form a word.
Worked example
Tiles: BUT · TER · FLY · COM · PUT · ER · HAP · PI · NESS · AD · VEN · TURE
A naive first move might be: BUT + TER → BUTTER. That's a real word. But locking it now leaves you with PUT, ER, FLY, etc., and you'll struggle to use all of them.
The intended solution:
BUT + TER + FLY -> BUTTERFLY
COM + PUT + ER -> COMPUTER
HAP + PI + NESS -> HAPPINESS
AD + VEN + TURE -> ADVENTURE
All 12 tiles used, four real words. Notice that BUTTER was a trap. Locking it would have wasted the TER tile that BUTTERFLY needs.
Tips
- Look for unusual tile shapes first, e.g.
NESS, TURE, PHANT. They usually only fit at the end of one specific word.
- If you're stuck, count the tiles you have and ask "How many words is this likely to be?" Twelve tiles divided four ways means four 3-tile words, or some mix of 2- and 3-tile words.
- Use Clear current to reset the builder without losing locked words.
- The full Reset puzzle button starts you over from scratch. Useful if you've locked the wrong word and can't make the rest fit.