Tile Daddy

Tap any square and type a letter to record a tile that's already on the board. The Across → / Down ↓ toggle controls which way the cursor advances as you type, so you can enter a whole word without tapping each square. Backspace on an empty square steps back and clears the previous one.

Letters are always stored as capitals, and a filled tile is drawn as a solid colored tile that covers the bonus square underneath it — so what you see matches the real board.

Type your tiles into the rack box. Use ? for a blank. Blanks are powerful but slow things down, since the app has to try every letter they could stand for.

A blank already played on the board is different: it's a specific letter that happens to score zero. Type the letter on that square, then press ? to flag it. A small dot appears on the tile and it'll count as 0 points in any word crossing it.

Plays are listed highest score first, and the top one is highlighted on the board automatically. Each result shows its position, direction, and a full breakdown of how the score was reached — for example ZOMBIS (19) + AS (2).

That breakdown lists every word the play creates, not just the main one. If placing your tiles forms side words running the other direction, each is scored separately and added in. A bingo bonus for using your whole rack shows as its own line.

Tap any result to preview it. New tiles appear in gold; existing tiles the word builds on are outlined. Clear preview lights up while a preview is active — it removes the suggested tiles without changing your board.

Apply this move makes the tiles permanent, removes the used letters from your rack, and adds the score to whichever player is selected. If you apply by mistake, the undo button (circular arrow) puts everything back — tiles, rack, and score — and re-selects that play so you can pick a different one.

Undo covers the last applied move only, and it clears once you run a new search or clear the board.

Tap a player chip to set whose turn it is; applied moves are added to that player's total. Press and hold a name to rename it. Reset scores is in Tile settings.

Scores don't switch players automatically, since you'll typically only apply your own plays through the app and type your opponent's words straight onto the board.

Classic is the standard Scrabble bonus layout with Scrabble tile values and a 50-point bingo. New York uses the bonus layout and tile values from the popular newspaper game app, with a 40-point bonus. Switching the toggle changes both the board and the values together.

Every value is editable in Tile settings if something doesn't match your game, and Edit bonus squares lets you tap individual squares to cycle them through 2L → 3L → 2W → 3W → plain.

Letter bonuses apply first: a double- or triple-letter square multiplies just that tile's value. Word bonuses apply afterward, multiplying the entire word — and they stack, so two double-word squares in one play quadruple it.

A bonus square only counts the turn it's covered. Tiles already on the board score face value even if they sit on a bonus. When one new tile sits on a word-multiplier square and also forms a side word, that multiplier applies to both words.

The app uses ENABLE, a public-domain list of about 168,000 words, plus modern short words it predates such as qi and za. It's embedded in the app, so nothing is downloaded.

This list is deliberately looser than most games' dictionaries. That means the occasional suggestion may be rejected — just move on to the next one in the list. It errs toward showing you too much rather than hiding a play you could have made. A few words your game accepts may also be missing, since no public list matches a commercial game exactly.

Check the breakdown line under the play first — it names every word being counted. Most surprises are a side word you hadn't spotted, or a bonus square that's already covered.

If it still looks off, the usual causes are tile values that don't match your game, a bonus square in the wrong place, or a played blank that hasn't been flagged with ? and is being scored at face value.

Everything runs on your device — the dictionary, the solver, and the scoring. There are no network requests at all, so it works fully offline and nothing about your games is ever sent anywhere.

On a phone, open it in your browser and choose Add to Home Screen to get an icon and a fullscreen app-like window.

Most searches finish almost instantly. Two blanks on a crowded board is the slow case — the app has to consider every letter each blank could be — and may take a second or two. Everything else is effectively immediate.