How to play Wordolith
Wordolith is a daily word pyramid puzzle. You get seven letter tiles that spell one seven-letter word. Build the pyramid with the shortest word on top and each longer word below it.
The rules
- Seven tiles. The same seven tiles for everyone, every day.
- Start with two letters. Make a two-letter word with any two tiles.
- One tile per row. Each new row keeps every letter from the row above and adds exactly one unused tile, in any order. The last row uses all seven.
- Crumbles and stones. If no unused tile can make a longer word, the whole Wordolith crumbles. You lose one of your three stones and start again from the ground. Wrong guesses cost nothing.
- Hints and stars. Tap Hint to light up a tile that can make the next word. You can ask once for every row, as often as you need. You earn three stars for no falls and no hints. Three hints cap you at one star, and one hint still allows two. Lose all three stones and the puzzle ends.
- Scramble. Tap Scramble to shuffle the order of your tiles, both the letters from your last word and the unused ones, each within its own group. It only changes how the tiles are laid out. It costs no hint, star or fall, and it never touches the tiles already in your row.
- Show timer. The clock counts the time you spend on each puzzle and stops when you win or lose. Turn Show timer on or off in Settings (on by default). It is always counted, so turning it on mid-puzzle shows the real time. When it is on, your time appears on the result and in what you share.
A worked example
These tiles are only an example, not a real day. Tiles: P, L, A, N, T, E, D. The pyramid grows like this:
- AT
- ATE
- LATE
- PLATE
- PLANET
- PLANTED
Each row adds one tile to the one above it. PLATE becomes PLANET by adding N and rearranging, and PLANET becomes PLANTED by adding D.