Wordz

Wordz modes and languages

In brief

Circle: 6 letters in a circle, 2 minutes. Grid: a 5 × 5 grid, 3 minutes. Score: the same grid without crosswords, 6 minutes to score as many points as possible. The app offers 17 playable dictionaries.

The three modes

ModeLetters drawnDurationCrossword words to findEnd
Circle62 minutesyestime runs out, or all words found
Grid103 minutesyestime runs out, or all words found
Score106 minutesnotime runs out

The letters drawn are all different, picked at random according to how frequent they are in the dictionary's language: common letters come up more often. The app only keeps a draw if it allows enough words, then places the words to find.

Circle

The 6 letters are laid out in a circle. You slide from one letter to another in any order: all the letters touch each other, but each one can only be used once per word. Going back to the second-to-last letter removes the last letter selected from the current word.

A Circle game drawn by the app: the word COURS, one of the 5 words to find.

With these letters, 25 words from the French dictionary can be formed: the full game is in the examples.

A game of Wordz in Circle mode on a phone, dark theme: the crossword to complete at the top, and at the bottom six letters arranged in a circle, four of them already selected in blue.
Phone, Circle mode: six letters, each usable once per word.

Grid

A 5 × 5 grid of letters, drawn from 10 letters. The words to find are placed in it square by square; the remaining squares get random letters. Words are traced from one adjacent square to the next, diagonals included.

Score

The grid is drawn as in Grid, but the screen shows no crossword: any dictionary word traced in the grid earns its points, and a history shows the latest words found. No perfect bonus: the game lasts 6 minutes, no matter what.

The dictionaries

The dictionary decides which words are accepted and how much the letters are worth. It is chosen separately from the interface language (46 languages and variants): changing one does not change the other. Number of words of 3 to 15 letters, those that can be traced:

LanguageWords
Italian663 885
Spanish634 793
German427 314
French402 244
Turkish312 118
English268 168
Norwegian264 633
Polish257 319
Czech237 128
Slovak227 888
Dutch222 979
Romanian165 224
Danish138 724
Portuguese128 384
Hungarian84 894
Indonesian60 798
Croatian52 548