Classic clears the board until no words remain. Timed keeps tiles regenerating — the countdown clock is what ends the game.
You can play the game with English tiles and words or in several other languages, including Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Greek. You can also play with English tiles but with the UI localized for many different countries and languages, so you can improve your English skills while still feeling at home.
Choose from over a dozen tile finishes — maple, marble, brushed steel, even rainbow — and tabletop backgrounds from wood to marble.
Sit on your couch and play on the big screen, using Apple TV with the Siri Remote.
An on-device top-10 list and a full word history for every game, so you can revisit — or brag about — your best plays.
Share your board and score as a link. They see exactly what you played and can jump in to try to beat it.
Lexitaire's tile-stacking idea goes back to a desktop game called Wordly, itself inspired by Carl Haynes' "Wordsmith" for TiVo Series 3 — read the full story. Wordly's own iPhone edition, written in Objective-C, has since been fully rewritten from scratch as Lexitaire's native iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV apps, built with Swift and SwiftUI. The version you're playing right here in your browser is a separate, independent port to plain HTML5 and JavaScript — its own from-scratch codebase, not a wrapper around the native apps — but the board is still the same idea: letter tiles, played one column at a time.