Word Stretch guide
How to Play Word Stretch
Word Stretch is the big-words preset inside Set up a round: a roomy 6×6 grid with a five-letter minimum. It changes the board and minimum, not the rules.
Open Set up a roundThe big-words preset
- A new 6×6 board is yours for 3 minutes.
- Words must be at least 5 letters long and come from the active Wordrush dictionary.
- Each accepted word scores its length squared: 5 letters are 25 points, 6 are 36, and 7 are 49.
Apply Big words 6×6 from Set up a round, or set the board to 6×6 and the minimum to 5+ yourself.
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.