How to play Stickee Words

Six short steps. Two minutes. The full rules are below them.

A block of three letters falls, slides left, turns upright, slides right and drops.

1. Letters fall

Blocks of letters fall onto the board. Move and turn them, then drop them. The dashed outline shows where a block will land.

Phone: swipe to move, tap to turn, flick down to drop, or use the buttons. Keyboard: ← → to move, ↑ to turn, ↓ to drop faster.

A block lands next to C and A, spelling CAT. CAT lights up, clears, and scores 5.

2. Spell a word

Line up 3 or more letters into a word, across or down. It lights up, clears, and scores its letters' values (the small numbers on the tiles).

OAK clears down a column; the T above it falls and spells CAT across, which clears for double points.

3. Chain reactions

When a word clears, the letters above it fall. If they land in another word, that clears too and scores 2×, then 3×… Longer words pay more.

A falling block slides into the side of a tower, sticks, and spells RUNS in mid-air for a 3 times bonus.

4. Stickee Sideways

Slide a falling block into the side of the stack and it sticks. If that makes a word, it clears in mid-air, with a bigger bonus.

The top of the play screen: the clock, PAUSE and your score; Next block, Help and Last word; a block over its landing outline.

5. Your screen

Next block shows what's coming. Help places a block for you (not in the Daily). Keep an eye on the clock, and don't let the stack reach the top.

6. Ready?

Start with the Daily: one puzzle for everyone, new every day. Then try the Challenge Games, or join a friend's group.

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The rules

Blocks meet words. Blocks of random letters fall onto the board and stick where they land. Spell words to clear letters and score points before the timer or the block count runs out, or before the stack reaches the top.

Words read left to right or top to bottom.
Words must be at least 3 letters (adjustable in Settings; the Daily uses 3).
Valid words come from a list of about 17,000 everyday words.
A block never arrives already spelling a word. You have to make one.

When a word completes it glows, flashes and fades away. Letters left hanging fall down, sometimes landing in new words for chain reactions.

Scoring

Each letter has a letter value, shown on its tile. A word scores the sum of its letters.
Length bonus: longer words are harder to land, so they pay more. 4 letters 1.5×, 5 letters 3×, 6 letters 5×. A 6-letter word is worth roughly 7× a 3-letter one.
Stickee bonus: a word made by sliding a block sideways into the stack pays its own, bigger bonus instead: 3 letters 1.5×, 4 letters 3×, 5 letters 6×, 6 letters 10×.
Chains: if one block solves several words, at once or by cascade, the 2nd word scores 2×, the 3rd 3×, and so on. The chain resets when the next block drops.
The bonuses stack. The score log tags each word so a big number explains itself.

The games

Daily Game. One puzzle for everyone, new at 08:00 UTC. Five minutes, no Help, one go that counts (a restart is allowed; the first finished game is the one filed). The server replays your moves and files the score on the Daily board. Streaks count consecutive days.
Challenge Games. Seven twists on the board: Wild Calls, Sticky Stars, Breakthrough, Wild Row, Row Rush, Rubble and Beat AI. Unranked, play as many as you like. Groups get a daily round of some of them.
Timed and Infinity. Your own clock and settings on a fresh board. Infinity has no clock; it ends when the stack tops out.
Game Archives. Replay any past Daily on the exact board everyone saw, and watch the day's top ten games.
Learn from AI. Watch Stickee Smart AI play and see how it plans.

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