How to Play Long Haul

Long Haul is not a separate game: it is the big-words preset with its minimum raised to six letters. Set the minimum dial to 6+ inside Set up a round.

Open Set up a round

The 6+ minimum setting

A new 6×6 board is yours for 3 minutes.
Words must be at least 6 letters long and come from the active Wordrush dictionary.
Each accepted word scores its length squared: 6 letters are 36 points, 7 are 49, and 8 are 64.

Start from Big words 6×6 and change Shortest word to 6+, or open the legacy Long Haul link to load this configuration directly. The minimum dial covers it; there is no separate mode.

Only big words score

Start on a tile and move to an adjacent tile, including diagonals. You cannot jump across the board or reuse a tile in one word. Release to submit the trace.

A word is rejected if its path is invalid, it is shorter than 6 letters, it is not in the dictionary, or you already found it in this round. With the highest minimum of the preset games, every find is a long trace across the board.

When the round ends

The round ends when the 3-minute timer reaches zero. In solo play you can also choose End Round early. In multiplayer, everyone shares the board and clock, while each player keeps their own found-word list and score; the host can end the room round early.