The imaginatively titled Three Letters Game is a fun, fast-paced word game where you race to make words from give letters against the clock.
You have three letters each round and have to make words that:
So BDR could be BIDDERS, but not BORDERING.
Letters are scored as follows:
A blank tile can be any letter that you want it to be, but it will not score any points. If the first of the three tiles is blank, then this will be the first letter of your word. If the second of the three tiles is blank, this will be the second letter of your word. If the third of the three tiles is blank, this will be the letter after the position of the second tile in your word.
These allow you to score more points per word – light blue is double letter score, dark blue is triple letter score, pink is double word score and red is triple word score.
If you make a word that is 15 letters long, you will receive a 50 point bonus.
At the end of the game, you will see your score, the round you reached and your best word score. These are ranked out of five bananas. You’ll also be shown emojis for the bonuses you earned in chronological order. If your score is a new personal best, it will tell you this too.
Whatever device you are using to play on, there is a variety of ways to share your score and answers to social media, email etc.
You will be shown a list of all your answers, showing the score and bonus you earned for each. Red means a round that you failed on. Green means that you found the best word possible from those letters. You will also be shown your average word score (before bonuses). You will also be shown a list of better answers and the best possible answers for each round. After these are your personal best score, highest round ever achieved, all-time average word score, best word ever, and current streak of games played.
The friends feature allows you to enter your friends’ usernames, then follow their scores in the daily and all-time high score tables. Your friends are not notified that you are following their scores. You and your friends are highlighted in blue on the high score tables.
The game displays the top 10 scores/round reached and best word score for the last three days. Gold, silver and bronze medals are awarded for players in first, second and third place in each category, with ties meaning that each player gets a medal. As well as displaying the top 10 players, all highest placed medallists are shown, as well as you and your friends.
The median score for each score category is also shown, colour coded from red through yellow to green to indicate whether it is lower than average, average or higher than average.
Today’s Trickiest Rounds are also displayed, showing the 10 rounds that the highest number of players failed to complete. The red bar indicates how many failed, and the green bar how many succeeded.
Your own personal “Today’s Letters” scores are displayed for the previous 10 days, showing the best word you submitted, and any medals won.
An all-time high score table is shown, giving personal best scores, rounds reached and best word scores. Note that these categories may come from different games. The top 20 players are shown, along with any other highest placed medallists, you, your friends, and the player above you in the all-time high score table.
The median scores are also displayed, for all games ever.
An asterisk means that that day’s game is still in play somewhere in the world.
A plus sign means that player is a new player that day.
Personal best scores are shown in purple, with the brightest purple being scores most recently achieved.
You are highlighted in bold, and you and your friends in blue.
You can click on any word to see its definition in an online dictionary.
This feature switches the game to a light text on dark background mode to help reduce eye strain or in darker ambient conditions.
"One of the best new word games I have played in the past few years – I LOVE IT SO" – webcurios.co.uk