GROW

A word tree that grows from the bottom up. Make a word of the three letters at the bottom, and every row above adds one letter — rearrange them all into a new word, up to seven letters.

• Tap the letters into the row. A full row checks itself. Tap a letter in the row to take it back.
• Any real word of those letters counts, not only the one we had in mind, and a wrong try costs nothing — the row shakes and you try again.
• Shuffle re-deals the tray when you can’t see it; Clear empties the row.
• Hint locks the next letter of the row’s commonest word and takes 8 points from that row. Lock all but one and the row spells itself out, for nothing.
• The five rows are worth 20 points each, so a tree grown with no hints scores 100.

One puzzle a day. Your scores are kept — Statistics is in the menu — and Grow sits outside the daily line-up, so it never moves your day’s total.

Read the full guide, with strategy