⚖️Word Weights

Eight letter tiles, each worth a different number of points. Build as many words as you can and climb the ranks. Every rack can spell at least one word using all eight letters.

• Every word is at least three letters long.
• Each tile is used once per word. A letter that appears twice on the rack can be used twice.
• A word scores the value of its letters, multiplied by a length bonus: ×1 for three letters, rising to ×5 for eight. Long words are worth far more than short ones.
• Climb ten ranks from Feather to Heavyweight by accumulating points.
• Ranks measure you against the day's findable words: commonly known ones plus the full-rack word. Rare dictionary words (marked ✶ when you find one) still score, as a bonus, but aren't needed to reach Heavyweight.

British spellings throughout: colour, centre, organise, not the American forms.

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What you see

A rack of eight tiles. The small number in the corner of each tile is what that letter is worth. Above them is the word you're building; above that, your rank, your score and how many of the day's words you've found.

Building a word

1. Tap tiles to add their letters, or type on a physical keyboard. A tile dims once it's in use, so you can always see what you have left.
2. Delete removes the last letter and frees its tile. Reset clears the word and frees all of them.
3. Press Enter or tap Enter to submit.
4. Shuffle rearranges the rack, which is useful when you've stared at the same arrangement too long.

Scoring

Letter values are the familiar Scrabble ones: common letters like A, E and S are worth 1, while J, Q, X and Z are worth 8 or 10. The length multiplier is what really decides a score, so a long word built from cheap letters usually beats a short one full of expensive letters.

The full-rack word, using all eight tiles, is the big prize: eight letters at ×5. Every rack has at least one, and it always counts towards your rank however obscure it is.

Play together

Open a room from the Play together panel and share the code or the link. Words found on any device land on the same shared board, and you climb the ranks as a team. Each player's found words are tagged with their initial.

Tips

• Chase length before letter value. Six cheap letters beat three expensive ones almost every time.
• Look for a common suffix on the rack: -ING, -ERS, -EST. They are often the spine of the longest word.
• If you're stuck, shuffle. Seeing the letters in a new order is surprisingly effective.