Mocktiles

Mocktiles gives every player the same eight letter tiles each day, numbered on the screen (Mocktiles #296 on 21 October 2026). The tiles are coloured yellow, green, blue and purple, worth 1, 2, 3 and 4 points. You place them on an empty five by five grid to form words in straight lines, across or down, and every tile on the board has to stay connected to the rest.

You pick a start cell, tap it again to switch between across and down, tap tiles to lay them in line and press Add Word. Each word you add scores the sum of its tiles in full, letters it shares with words already on the board included. That is the heart of the puzzle: building AN, then CAN, then CANDY scores all three, so a few well-placed letters can count several times. A Reset button clears the board up to four times, and Submit ends the day's game.

The score bar marks the tiers: Cool from 1 point, Nice from 10, Clever from 20, Brilliant from 25 and the top tier from 30. A dictionary lets you check a word, and Global Stats shows how others played that day, including the top score so far. A switch at the top moves between the daily puzzle and a Practice mode with extra boards, and the game keeps a streak and stats in the browser.

Mocktiles is one of a handful of daily puzzles from Product Pickle Games, alongside Vertiqle, Hexqle and Mirraqle. It is free in the browser with no account and no ads, and suits players who like Scrabble-style scoring in a puzzle short enough for a coffee break.