Find synonyms of the seed word. Once a word is on the board, its own synonyms count too — for fewer points. You have 20 entries; a word that lands nowhere costs 1 point. The clock starts on your first entry.
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How it works
- A seed word sits at the top. Every synonym of it you name is a 1st-order word, worth 8 points.
- Once a word is on the board, its synonyms count as the next rung out: 2nd order = 4 points, 3rd = 2, 4th = 1. Nothing counts past the 4th rung.
- A word always takes its shortest trace back to the seed. If a later find gives it a shorter route, it moves up a rung and scores more — a 4th-order word that turns out to be reachable in three steps becomes 3rd order. Extra links beyond that shortest trace are ignored, so there are no loops to untangle.
- You get 20 entries. A word that lands and a word that misses each spend one; same-root words and repeats of what's already on the board are free. When the 20 are gone the round is over.
- The clock starts on your first entry, not when the word appears.
- Blitz is the same game against a countdown. The round ends when the clock runs out or the 20 entries do, whichever comes first — so it rewards going wide fast rather than deliberating.
- The daily word is the same for everyone, and once your round ends you see everyone else who played it today. Not before: a board of scores and first-order counts would give the day away, so it stays shut — and so do today's daily rounds on the tier boards, which join them tomorrow.
- A word that links to nothing — a miss or a misspelling — drops into tries and costs 1 point. There is no spellcheck and no hint about what went wrong.
- A word is charged once. Anything on the tries list can be entered again for free, as often as you like — a word that linked to nothing early on may well land once the board has grown around it.
- A word sharing a root with one already in play (discord and discordant are the same word) goes to same root instead. That bucket is neutral: no points, no penalty. It isn't a wrong answer, it just can't be its own answer.
- A marks a looser link — the thesaurus data connects the two words, but not as a strict synonym.
- The whole point is breadth at the first rung: eight 1st-order words beat sixteen 4th-order ones.
- Simple, literary and erudite describe the seed word, not you. Rarer seeds have thinner thesaurus entries, so there is less to find and further to reach.