Two players. One board of random letters. Build words from your territory, cut off your opponent, and be the first to reach their base.
The game is played on a board filled with random letters. At the start, the top row is red and the bottom row is blue. These rows are called bases.
One player starts from the red base at the top, and the other from the blue base at the bottom.
On your turn, find a word that starts on a square of your color. Words can go in any direction, as long as no square is used more than once in the same word.
When you play a valid word that hasn't been played before, its squares turn your color. Here the red player plays TABLES.
Now it's blue's turn. The blue player plays STOUTS, growing upward from their base.
A word can start on any square of your color, not just your base. The red player plays SIRE, starting from a red square in the middle of the board.
Words can run through your opponent's squares and capture them. The blue player plays SASH, taking red's letter S. That cuts off the red letters I, R and E from the red base.
Squares that are no longer connected to their base turn back to white. Nobody can start a word from them.
The first player to play a word with a letter in the opponent's base wins. Here is the blue player's winning move.
Form words that bring you closer and closer to your opponent's base. At the same time, keep your opponent away from yours by capturing their squares or cutting them off so they turn back to white.
