Smixed

Smixed is a daily word game for the web and iPhone, designed by Gabriel Acosta-Cohen, with the website and app built by Big Boat (Camden Vaughan). The iPhone app came out in November 2022.

Each day the game picks one set of six featured letters from a fixed list of 2,728 sets, counting the days from a start date, so everyone plays the same set and none comes round again for more than seven years. Your board has six rows that grow from three letters to eight, and each word must begin with a different featured letter. You may use other letters too, but only featured letters score: one point every time one appears, repeats included.

Because the rows hold 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 letters, the top score is 33, called a Smax, and it means every letter you typed was featured. Each set has at least four ways to reach it. A Smax within three minutes is a Golden Smax, and sharing one shows the day's emoji. Each word changes colour by its score, a clock counts up as you play, and the stats track your average score, average time, total Smaxes and Smax streak.

The iPhone app adds three modes with random letters: Endless with no timer, Hard with three minutes and Dash with one. The website plays the daily alone, with no account and no ads.

It suits players who like open-ended word building more than guessing a single answer, whether they polish a perfect score through the day or go for speed.