SpellBinding Help

Basic rules:

Use the provided letters to construct as many words as possible. Re-using letters is OK. The center (anchor) letter must be used in all words. Entering a blank scrambles the letters. Try to achieve the 'genius' level!

Disallowed:

Shorter than 4-letter words;
Plurals ending in -S (except: pseudoplurals like SCISSORS, PANTS, ANYWAYS);
Third-person -S (i.e. not BRINGS)
Names, places and nationalities or
Words that are normally capitalized;
Puzzle-specific (if instructed in puzzle)

Word Selection Guidelines

Scoring

Each letter of a word counts as 1 point, except:

4-character words are counted as 1
Pangrams (words using every one of the 7 letters) garner a 7-point bonus

Dictionary

The dictionary is hand-curated to make the game interesting - too many words makes it tedious, while too few is annoying. This means that many words you know are missing. Don't worry too much. If it's truly upsetting, email me.

Client Certificates

The game requires you to use client certificates in order to keep your game state. No identifiable information is received or kept, of course. Not all browsers support client certs - use one that does, such as LaGrange. The first time around you will be asked to create or select a certificate - do that.

The name provided with the client certificate is used to create the 'top 5' leaderboard.

Tricks for LaGrange

Hit Alt-1 to open the input form to type in a new word.
Enter words directly into the URL bar after a '?'

Contact

or send a short in-game message to the operator by starting with a period

Back to the game!