Wordchute

Wordchute gives everyone the same daily drop: 32 letter tiles waiting in a chute above a 4 by 4 board. The board starts full, and you can see the letters lined up to fall next.

You make a word by tapping, or dragging through, three or more touching letters, and diagonals count. When you play the word its tiles vanish and the letters above fall into the gaps. The aim is to clear all 32 tiles. Every daily board can be fully cleared, but only if you plan ahead, because a careless word can strand awkward letters at the bottom.

Past boards can be played in the browser, and the rules and a how-to guide are on the site. Wordchute is made by Colin Hanson and also comes as an app for iOS and Android, where the daily is free and a one-time Premium unlock adds offline practice boards in three sizes and the full archive.

It suits players who like word searches with a strategy layer, closer to a falling-block puzzle than a straight vocabulary test.