WORD STAKES

Every run has 3 lives. Before each word you choose its length. Guess the hidden word, the cards flip after each guess: A right spot · B wrong spot · C not in the word. Run out of tries or time and you lose a life.

Score = base × tries bonus (+25% for every unused try) × streak (+25% for each word solved in a row, up to ×2) × your chips (perks). All-in stakes 20% of your chips on the word: solve it and the stake pays double, miss and it is gone.

A level is 3 words and 1 bonus round. Every 3 levels is a floor: Lobby, Card Room, High Rollers, Vault, Penthouse… Each floor ends with a boss word that has a twist (twin letters, a masked letter, fading clues or reversed typing) and pays double. Beat it for a bonus chip pick. From floor 2 one word per level comes from the floor's themed table (Kitchen, Travel or Science). The first 20 levels are relaxed: any length, no timer, everyday words. From level 22 every word has a timer that keeps shrinking, from level 23 the 3-letter words are gone, and from level 25 only 5, 6 and 7 letters remain.

Casual: classic rules. Hard: letters found must be reused in every guess. Blitz: every word is timed from level 1 and rare words bank vault chips. Bankroll option: no lives, you start with 1,000 chips and every miss costs twice the word's base; hit zero and the run ends.

Bonus rounds never cost a life and pay 10% more each level. After every bonus round you pick one of three chips (perks).
🔀 Scramble: unscramble a 5, 6 and 7 letter word (250 / 400 / 600).
🧩 Missing letters: fill the gaps in four words (60 per letter).
⚡ Blitz: 45 seconds, 7 letters, as many words as you can. 6 words win a life back.
🗼 Anagram tower: from one rack build a 3, 4, 5 and 6 letter word in turn.
🪜 Ladder: change one letter per rung to climb from the bottom word to the top word.
🔡 Quad: four words share one missing letter, four times.
Solve everything for a free helper.

💡 Reveal (150) shows one letter. 🧹 Sweep (100) removes up to 6 wrong keys. ➕ Extra try (250) adds a row, or 10 seconds in a bonus round. 📖 Define (120) shows a short definition when the dealer has one for that word. You pay with chips, or for free with a helper token. You start with one token and earn one for every 3 words in a row.

Everyone gets the same daily run; your first attempt is ranked, later ones are practice. Three quests refresh every day and pay vault chips, and every finished run keeps your day streak alive. Spend vault chips on keyboards, card backs, a starting chip or a streak freeze.