Word Wise

Word Wise is a word-making game where you select tiles on a board to form words and earn points. It includes over 400,000 possible words, unlimited game worlds, and more than seven hours of music across five genres: Cinematic, Electro-Chill, Lo-Fi, Piano and Vaporwave.

Make words and score

Drag across tiles to form a word. Valid words must be at least three letters long; selected tiles and directional arrows turn green for valid words and orange-red for invalid ones. Each tile has a point value, and the game shows a preview of your word and a breakdown of its score. Points from used tiles are added to your score, and you gain a level for every 1,000 tiles used.

You can double-click tiles to mark them in magenta, helping you keep tiles in place for longer words. Zoom in with the mouse wheel to inspect the board, then pan while zoomed using the middle or right mouse button. Zooming out recenters the board.

Tile types

The board has seven tile types: wood, bronze, silver, gold, diamond, bomb and burning. Wood tiles have face values; bronze, silver, gold and diamond tiles are worth zero points but multiply a word's score by 2, 3, 4 and 5 respectively. Multipliers from multiple special tiles are multiplied together.

Bronze, silver, gold, diamond and bomb tiles can appear when you make words worth at least 50, 100, 250, 500 and 1,000 points, respectively. When you earn special tiles, one always appears, while that tile and subsequent tiles each have a 50% chance to spawn an additional special tile. They can appear anywhere, including over existing special tiles, so a special tile may be replaced by another. Each tile spawned to replenish the board also has a 1% chance of being any special tile type.

Bombs cannot be selected and explode when you make a word directly adjacent to them. An explosion destroys nearby tiles, adding their point values to your score, and can leave burning tiles behind. Burning tiles have a chance to spread with each new word; they score with a multiplier of zero, nullifying the score of any word that uses them.

Worlds and settings

You can create unlimited game worlds, copy worlds, shuffle the board as often as you like, and use limited rejuvenations to replace every tile on the board. Each time you level up, you earn two additional rejuvenations. A word checker lets you look up words in the lexicon, and the game tracks statistics such as words made, tiles used and average score per word.

Settings let you add or exclude custom words, automatically exclude NSFW words, choose which of the five music genres play, adjust the delay between songs and control audio volumes. You can pause or skip the current track, display the FPS, and play in fullscreen or a resizable window. The game also includes minimal scenery, UI animations and an exit confirmation menu.