You load Text Twist and the screen is basically a circle of letters front and center, a countdown clock ticking, and empty word slots waiting to fill. The letters sit in a loose ring and feel like a little puzzle you can poke at until something clicks.
What you do is simple, but it gets frantic. Make as many words as you can from the given letters. Find the single longest word that uses every letter to trigger the twist bonus, get extra time, and new letters. It feels oddly tense and silly at the same time. I like how the rush of spotting the long word makes you slap the submit button like you mean it.
Play moves fast. You click or type letters into the slot, hit submit, see the word pop into place, and keep hunting. When you fail to find more words the timer gobbles your remaining seconds and the round ends. Try hunting for the long word first though, it usually pays off and buys you room to spot the small ones.
Controls
- Click letters with the mouse to build a word, or just type them on your keyboard.
- Enter to submit the current word.
- Backspace to remove the last letter, Esc or a clear button to reset the current guess.
- Spacebar or a shuffle button to jumble the letters if you get stuck.
A casual piece of advice, try to spot prefixes and common endings first, then assemble the remaining letters into the long word that gives you the most points. Also, don’t waste time on impossible combos, move on and circle back if you have time.
Similar games
- Boggle
- Wordscapes
- Scrabble
- Word Cookies
- Letterpress
