Lexicove: Spell, Clear, Solve

One board a day. The same letters for every player in the world, and thirty words to spend on them. Trace a word through touching tiles and it clears; the board falls in to fill the gap, and your count drops by one. Thirty is fewer than it sounds. Every word you spell is a word you no longer have, so an easy three-letter word is never free — it costs one of the plays you needed to beat the score you were chasing. That question is the game, and nothing else on the App Store asks it. THE DAILY POOL One board, seeded from the date, identical for everyone who opens it, and replaced at the same moment everywhere. Finish it and the streak grows by one. Miss one and it is still there: every board back to the first is in the archive, and playing it fills the day in and joins the streak up again. Because the letters are the same for every player, the only variable is which words you found — and…