Word Grid Game
Find words in a grid of letter dice before the clock runs out, then see every word you missed. Real Boggle dice, 4×4 and 5×5, timed or untimed.
Words found
What you missed
Rules and scoring
- Letters must touch — sideways, up and down, or diagonally.
- You cannot use the same square twice in one word. A board with one E cannot make TREE.
- Qu is a single square worth two letters, exactly as in the physical game.
- Three and four letters score 1, five scores 2, six scores 3, seven scores 5, and eight or more scores 11 — so one long word beats a pile of short ones.
- The letters come from the real 16 and 25 dice sets. That is not decoration: random letters give a playable board about a third of the time, the dice about nine times in ten.
- The dictionary holds common English words only — around 11,000 of them. It is not an official Scrabble word list, so a legal-but-obscure word may be turned down. Hover a found word to see what it scored.
How to use
- Pick a board size and a round length, then press New board.
- Type any word whose letters touch on the grid and press Enter.
- When time is up the board shows every word you missed.
Frequently asked questions
What counts as a legal word?
Letters must touch — sideways, up and down, or diagonally — and no square may be used twice in the same word. That last rule is the one people forget: a board with a single E cannot make TREE.
Why is Qu one square?
Because it is one die face in the physical game. Q almost never appears without U in English, and a lone Q would make that die close to useless. It counts as two letters when scoring.
How does the scoring work?
The standard table: three and four letters score 1, five scores 2, six scores 3, seven scores 5, and eight or more scores 11. Long words are worth disproportionately more, which is what stops the game being won by whoever types CAT fastest.
Why did it reject a word I am sure is real?
Probably true. The dictionary holds about 11,000 common English words, not an official Scrabble list, so legal-but-obscure words can be turned down. It is deliberately built to accept everyday words rather than to be exhaustive.
Are the letters random?
No — they are rolled from the real 16-dice and 25-dice sets. It matters: picking letters uniformly at random gives a board with enough vowels to play about a third of the time, while the dice manage it about nine times in ten.
How do I get better?
Hunt suffixes rather than words. Once you spot an -ER, -ED, -ING or -S that you can reach, work backwards into the grid from it. Most strong players also sweep the board for the highest-value long word first, while the clock is still generous.
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