Scraple

Scraple is a daily word-building puzzle in the style of Scrabble, on a board only five squares wide. It is made by a developer who signs as James and keeps the code on GitHub, and has been running since 2025. Each date has its own board: one double letter, one triple letter, one double word and one triple word square in new spots, and a rack of 18 letter tiles with their point values, from one-point vowels to eight-point J and ten-point Q.

You drag letters onto the board to make words of at least two letters, reading across to the right or downwards. Every tile has to touch another, words may cross, and each word on the board counts. There is no limit on moves while you build: a panel lists each word and its points as you go (a J on the triple word square inside JAM is worth 36 on its own), Shuffle rearranges the rack, Reset clears the board, and Finish locks in your score. Words that are not valid are taken off your total.

After the daily you can see where you rank on the day's leaderboard under a nickname, look at the boards of the top players word by word, compare with ScrapleBot's own board for the day, and share an image of your board. Finishing the daily also opens Blitz, a second board of the day played against a clock with its own leaderboard, and a Practice mode deals new boards whenever you like.

The challenge is fitting high-value letters onto the bonus squares while keeping every crossing a real word, on a board far too small for the whole rack. It suits players who enjoy Scrabble scoring more than guessing games, and it plays the same on a phone as on a desktop.