Letteracy

Letteracy gives everyone the same daily game, built from a seed, on a grid with one starting letter in the middle. Your letters sit in a pyramid under the board: a single top tile, with the next top tiles shown beside it, two vowels in the middle row and three consonants at the bottom. You tap a square to set where a word starts, tap the arrow to switch between across and down, spell a word with your tiles and submit it.

Using tiles refills the pyramid by rule. Playing the top tile brings new vowels and consonants, using both vowels brings new vowels, and using all the consonants brings new consonants, so the order you play letters shapes what you get next. Scoring is by contact: any tile is worth the number of tiles touching it, bonus tiles multiply that, and playing five or six tiles in one turn adds 10 or 20 points. Once you have played all the top tiles you can choose to end the game.

Beside the daily game there is an evening game at a harder setting. A Today's Scores panel ranks the day's best scores without names, and you can watch replays of yesterday's best games. The game keeps your streak, offers several tilesets, and plays free in the browser with no account and no ads. It suits players who like Scrabble-style building but want a puzzle that changes as they play.