Word Stretch guide

How to Play Word Stretch

Word Stretch trades the small board for a roomy 6×6 grid and raises the minimum to five letters.

Play Word Stretch

The fixed round

Reach for longer words

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 5 letters, it is not in the dictionary, or you already found it in this round. The bigger grid and longer minimum mean fewer short finds and much bigger length-squared scores.

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.