It's Wordy

About It's Wordy

It's Wordy gives everyone the same numbered puzzle each day. The on-screen keyboard is coloured to show today's letter values: green letters are worth 1, olive 2, red 3 and purple 4, and the values shuffle every day. Each day also sets a word length, between five and seven letters (six on the day we looked).

You type a valid English word into the row of boxes and submit it, and its score is simply the sum of its letters: in the game's own example BREAD scores 1 + 3 + 1 + 2 + 4 = 11. There is no single answer and no wrong guesses to lose; the challenge is to hunt down the words that score highest with today's values.

Your best words fill a small pyramid: one gold word at the top, two silver and three bronze below. Finding a better word bumps the others down a tier, and filling every slot completes the daily pyramid, with an optimal pyramid as the top result. You can tap any word you have found to read its definition, and stats track your medals and pyramids over time.

It suits players who like Scrabble-style scoring and a puzzle with no fixed end, where you can come back during the day to improve your score.

How to play It's Wordy

1. Check the colour key: today each letter is worth 1, 2, 3 or 4 points, shown by its colour on the keyboard.
2. Type a valid English word of the day's length into the boxes.
3. Submit it to add the word and its score, the sum of its letter values.
4. Look for higher-scoring words to fill the gold, silver and bronze places in your pyramid.
5. Share your result or tap your words to read their definitions.

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Tips

• Build words around the purple 4-point letters; a word with two or three of them will usually beat one without.
• Swap a single letter in a word you already found for a higher-value one to make a new, better word.
• Do not forget plurals and common endings that use high-value letters.

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