How to play Word Grid
Word Grid is a word puzzle played on a grid of scrambled letters. Press on a tile and drag through touching tiles, sideways, up, down or diagonally, to spell a word, then let go to score it. You can use each tile once per word, and every word needs at least three letters. Find as many words as you can before the clock runs out.
- Scoring: longer words are worth far more. Three letters score 100, four score 200, five score 400, six score 700, seven score 1,100 and eight score 1,600.
- Levels: play on your own through 100 levels. Each level has a target score for one, two or three stars. The boards get bigger, the time shorter and the targets higher as you go.
- Hints: you get two hints in every round. A hint lights up the path of a long word you have not found yet.
- Racing friends: press Create Room to play up to four people on the same board at the same time. All words stay hidden until the round ends, then every player’s words and scores are revealed together and the highest score wins the round. A match climbs from 4x4 to 5x5 to 6x6 boards, two rounds on each, and the second round on each size is the harder one.
Tips for finding more words
- Look for endings first: S, ED, ING and ER can turn a short word into a longer, more valuable one.
- Find a long word, then look at its parts. Many longer words contain shorter ones that you can also score.
- Swipe back over your last tile to undo it, so a wrong turn does not cost you the word.
- Do not stop on a few short words: one seven-letter word is worth more than ten three-letter ones.