How to Play Score Attack

Score Attack is not a separate game: it is the 250-point score target inside Set up a round. Set the target dial to 250 and choose a board and clock to match.

Open Set up a round

The 250-point target setting

A new 5×5 board is yours for 2 minutes 30 seconds.
Words must be at least 3 letters long and come from the active Wordrush dictionary.
Each accepted word scores its length squared: 3 letters are 9 points, 4 are 16, and 5 are 25.
The first player to reach 250 points wins.

Open the legacy Score Attack link to load this configuration, or set Score target to 250 in Set up a round and pick your own board and clock. The target dial covers it; there is no separate mode.

Reach the target

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 too short, it is not in the dictionary, or you already found it in this round. Because longer words are worth more, mixing in 4- and 5-letter finds is the fastest route to 250 points.

When the round ends

Reaching 250 points ends the round immediately. Otherwise the round ends when the 2-minute-30-second 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 first player to reach 250 ends the shared round, and the host can end it early.