Sorting the dictionary…
Trace a word. Lift your finger. The tray re-shakes every go.
Play as many games as you like until the time is up. After that you get five snoozes, one game each, and then it shuts for an hour.
0 points
Trace a word. Press a letter and drag through the ones next to it — sideways, up, down or diagonally. Lift your finger and the word goes in. Drag back a letter to rub it out.
Three letters or more. Each cube can only be used once in a word. The Qu cube counts as two letters.
Scoring follows the real thing: three or four letters score 1, five score 2, six score 3, seven score 5, and eight or more score 11.
The house rule. The tray re-shakes after every attempt, right or wrong, so a word you have played is gone. Turn it off in Settings for the classic game: one tray, shaken once, for the whole round.
Either way you are told straight away how a word went — the score if it counts, or why it did not: not a word, too short, or one you have already had.
Stuck? Leave the tray alone for two seconds and a hint offers itself. The first press tells you where a word starts; press again to see the whole thing.
On a computer you can also just type the word and press Enter.