Opening the dictionary…
5+ letters light a lantern. Six lanterns earn a bloom.
A game by Tiny Dale Creative
Full screen makes more room for the board. On iPhone, open this game in Safari, then use Share → Add to Home Screen to launch the game as a web app.
Progress stays on this device
Connect touching letters in any direction. Make a word with 3 or more letters, then double-tap the last tile or the word below the board to play. The Play button works too. Letters fall and fresh ones arrive from above.
Longer words and rarer letters score more. Play the bonus word for an extra 500 points and two lanterns. There is no timer, so take your time.
Include a blue water tile to double your word’s letter score. Extra water tiles do not multiply it again. Bonus-word and weed points are added afterward.
A word of 5 or more letters lights one lantern. A bonus word lights two. Every six lanterns earns a bloom to clear a patch of tiles, including weeds.
Tap the flower, choose the center of your patch, then tap Bloom on the right. It costs no turn. Letters still fall, so watch the weeds below.
Weeds appear and spread as you play. Use their letters to clear them and earn 50 extra points each, or clear a patch with a bloom.
Easy: keep weeds out of three bottom spaces at once.Hard: when weeds reach the bottom, you have one last word to clear them. Blooms can help before you play that word.
Changing your word: tap an earlier selected tile to shorten it. Tap the last tile once to undo it, or twice to play. Invalid words cost nothing. Qu counts as two letters on one tile.
Fresh letters: Shuffle is in the game menu. It uses a turn and adds a weed; existing weeds and water stay. In Hard mode, shuffling with a weed at the bottom ends the game.
Bonus words: the bonus changes when you play it or when the letters can no longer connect. You can leave it for later.
Your collection: open Word collection in the menu to revisit your longest words, best scores and discoveries, with optional definitions. Progress stays on this device.
Keyboard: type letters, Backspace to undo, and Enter to play. Arrow keys move between tiles; Space selects.
Plays are checked against the public-domain ENABLE word list, compiled by M. Cooper and Alan Beale. Dictionary credits. Optional definitions are bundled from Princeton WordNet 3.0 (license) and may not cover every accepted word. Wordgrow is a game by Tiny Dale Creative.
Every game starts with a fresh random board.
THE GARDEN WILL GROW AGAIN
The vines have overgrown the garden. Your words are safe in your collection.
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Shuffle changes ordinary letters, uses a turn, and adds a new weed. Existing weeds and water tiles stay.
Play a word to start your collection.
Saved on this device across games. Definitions are served with the game and may not cover every accepted word. Loaded definitions are cached on this device when available.
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