How to play Wordnook
You get a grid of letters and find English words by swiping across letters that touch. This page covers the rules, how scoring works and the tools that help when you are stuck.
Updated 2026-10-23
Wordnook is not released yet. This is how the game works, and it is coming to Android and iPhone.
The goal
Find as many English words as you can in the day's grid. There is no timer, and there is no single winning score. You decide when you are done.
Making a word
- Swipe across neighboring letters. Each letter you add must touch the previous one. Touching includes diagonals, so every letter can connect to up to 8 others.
- Any direction. A word can turn, loop back and run up, down, sideways or diagonally. It does not need to follow a straight line.
- Each letter once. In a single word you cannot use the same square twice. You can use the same letter if it appears again in a different square.
- Minimum length. Words need at least 3 letters. On larger grids the minimum is 4.
- English words. The game checks your word against an English word list. See the FAQ for which one.
Scoring
- Longer words score more. A long word is worth more than several short ones.
- Common words count toward the total. Everyday words are the bulk of the grid, and they count when the game measures how much of the grid you have found.
- Rarer words give bonus points. A less common word you find is worth extra.
Milestones
The game marks when you reach 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% of the words in that day's grid. Reaching 100% means you found every word in that grid.
Hints
When you are stuck, use a hint. An arrow shows the first letters of a word you have not found yet. Free players can get hints by watching an optional video. Premium includes 5 hints per day without ads.
Streaks and reminders
Your streak counts days in a row on which you found at least one word. An optional daily reminder can nudge you at a time you choose.
Comfort settings
Letters are large, the text size can be adjusted, there are light and dark themes, and the device vibrates gently as you swipe.
Getting better
The fastest way to find more words is to look for common endings and letter pairs, and to extend short words into longer ones. We wrote a separate guide with specific techniques: how to find more words.