Babel (Mind Loft)

Babel drops you into the last few turns of a word tile game on an 11 by 11 board. Nothing is left to draw, which means the opponent's rack is no secret: it is the full bag minus what is on the board minus your own tiles. Babel prints the 65-tile bag on the page and leaves that subtraction to you, the same bookkeeping tournament players do on a tracking sheet.

You are scored on spread, your points from this position minus your opponent's. Going out first matters most, because the opponent's leftover tiles are taken off their score and added to yours. So each endgame becomes a choice between racing to empty your rack and blocking the spot the opponent needs, leaving them stuck with a tile they cannot play. Your words are checked against a full dictionary, while the opponent plays from a list of common words.

Each position comes with a benchmark worked out by the same solver that plays the defence, so the target is always reachable. The bag is weighted toward common letters, includes the Q and has no blanks. A new endgame appears every day at midnight Eastern, and on Sundays each side gets six tiles instead of five.