Word Quarry

Word Quarry is a Reddit game made with Reddit's developer platform by the creator ndrsxyz, played in its own community, r/WordQuarry. At 00:00 UTC each day a new post appears with that day's board, and tapping it opens the game.

The board is a heap of about eighty letter tiles stacked in layers. A tile can be picked only when nothing lies on it and one of its sides is clear. You pick free tiles in order to spell an English word and submit it; the tiles leave the heap and free the ones underneath. Each tile carries a point value, and longer words earn a bonus. A run ends when you press Finish or clear the whole heap.

You can dig the day's heap as often as you like and only your best score counts on the leaderboard. Nobody sees anyone else's words while the day is open; about fifteen minutes after it closes, the rarest, longest and most valuable finds are listed with how many players found each.

A calendar keeps the last 90 days, and keys earned by playing open past boards to replay, unranked.