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Word Cubes Skill Game
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Find as many words as you can,
connecting letters across the surface of the
ever-changing pile of cubes.
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Create words
of three or more letters. Each letter must touch
the face of the previous letter, either edge-to-edge
or corner to corner. Your words can wrap around
the side of the pile. No letter can be used more
than once in a given word.
In Free tournament
games, when you select a letter, all letters
representing legal moves will turn blue, to help
you learn how letters connect. This highlighting
will not appear in Money tournament games. Each
time you use a letter, it will turn a deeper
shade of red. When you use a letter for the fourth
time, the cube that contains that letter will
be removed, and new letters will be exposed behind
it. A cube icon will appear next to that word
in your word list, to show that the word resulted
in the removal of a cube. |
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You can also remove any cube
manually. Note, however, that you get points
for removing cubes automatically (by using one
of that cube's letters for the fourth time) but
you get no points for removing cubes manually.
There are two variations, one with a pile of
27 word cubes, and one with a pile of 18 cubes.
The time limits are four and a half minutes for
the larger pile, and three minutes for the smaller
pile. The game ends when time runs out, or when
all cubes have been removed. At the conclusion
of the game, the words in your word list are
checked against our official dictionary of legal
words. Any illegal words are crossed out and
do not count toward your final scoring. If an
illegal word resulted in the removal of a cube,
you will also lose the points for the cube removal. |
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The points for each word you
make depend on two factors: the number of letters
in the word, and the number of cubes it removed.
The longer the word, the more
points you get for the word:
Number of Letters |
Points for each Word |
3 |
15 |
4 |
25 |
5 |
35 |
6 |
45 |
7 |
55 |
8 |
65 |
9 |
75 |
10 or More |
85 |
You also get 20 points for each
cube that you remove by using one of its letters
for the fourth time. You get no points for removing
a cube manually by right-clicking on it.
There is a penalty of 20 points
for undoing a word which removed a cube; a penalty
of 40 points for undoing a word which removed
two cubes; etc.
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