Wordlander

About Wordlander

Wordlander is one of the free daily games on Klurium, a small site of word and history games. Everyone gets the same tower each day: the same 4x4 board, the same queue of upcoming letters (shown as Next) and the same stones to bring down.

You drag across touching tiles to chain a word of three letters or more. The tiles you use disappear, everything above falls into the gap, and new letters drop in from the queue. Some tiles are stones, and a stone only sinks when you clear the tiles beneath it. The goal is not to use up the letters but to get every stone to the ground before you run out; stones pay 30 points and diamonds 45, on top of points for the words.

The game shows your score, yesterday's score, your streak, how many letters are left and the day's best score. You can start over, add your score to the top list, sign the list of players who cleared the day, look back at older towers and keep a collection of the words you have found.

It suits players who like SpellTower and other falling-letter games but want a short puzzle with a clear daily goal. It may take a tower or two to learn how to steer the stones, as the game itself warns.

How to play Wordlander

1. Open wordlander.klurium.com and start today's tower.
2. Drag across touching letters to chain a word of three or more letters.
3. Watch the tiles vanish and the letters above, plus new ones from Next, fall into place.
4. Clear the tiles under each stone so it sinks one row at a time.
5. Bring every stone down to the ground before the letters run out.

Tips

• Keep the columns under your stones open; a stone you cannot reach is the main way to fail.
• Short words in the right column are often better than long words elsewhere.
• Check the Next queue before you play, so you know which letters will land on top.

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