Margot's Word Brain: Six Word Games, Letter Scoring and Timed Challenges

Word Link and Word Mine: Connected Grids and Six-Letter Jumbles

Word Link gives you 90 seconds to make three-, four-, five- and six-letter words from connected letters in a mixed grid. Select the letters in sequence with the mouse, then click the tick at the bottom right to submit your word. An accepted entry removes its letters, and replacements fall from the top of the screen, changing the grid as you work through the timer. If you get stuck, you can shuffle the board, but doing so costs five seconds. That makes shuffling a timed reset of the arrangement rather than a free way to look for another connection.

Word Mine replaces the connected grid with six jumbled letters and another 90-second search. Here, the task is to form as many words as possible from the supplied letters rather than trace connections across a board. Alongside the jumble, a display shows how many words of different lengths can be made, giving you a breakdown of the words available within that set. Use the letter-selection process to assemble an entry, then submit it with the tick. The length display gives the search a concrete reference: you are looking for words within the six-letter jumble, with the possibilities grouped by length.

Hyper Txt and Word Search: Entering and Remembering Words Against the Clock

Hyper Txt asks you to copy a displayed word using a mobile-phone-style keypad rather than search for words of your own. The target appears on the left of the screen, with the keypad on the right. Move the cursor over a numbered button and click repeatedly to reach the required letter: entering C, for example, takes three clicks on 2. Use X to advance to the next letter and Z to move back. As you enter more words, subsequent targets disappear sooner, leaving less time to read each word and reproduce it through the keypad's repeated-click entry system.

Word Search makes remembering the targets part of the task. Margot briefly shows three six-letter words, then gives you 20 seconds to locate all three on a 6×6 board. Look horizontally and vertically, clicking the first letter and then the last to highlight a word. A mistaken selection costs five seconds, a quarter of the initial allowance, so errors cut sharply into the search time. Finding the complete set lets you continue with another group of words; the sequence carries on until you fail. Your score rises with the number of words you successfully find across those successive sets.

Word Run: Fitting Valid Words onto a 6×6 Board

Word Run starts with Margot placing a six-letter word across a 6×6 board. Your task is to add words of your own, using entries between three and six letters long. To make an entry, first select its starting position, then its ending position, and enter the word into that space. Words can run horizontally or vertically, so placement involves choosing both a word and the stretch of board it will occupy. You continue adding entries until there is no longer room to fit a fresh word onto the board.

Fitting a word into the available space is only part of the placement rule. Adjacent letters belonging to different words must also form valid words, in a system comparable to Scrabble. A proposed entry therefore needs to work both along its own horizontal or vertical line and wherever its letters sit beside those of another word. The starting and ending positions determine more than the length of your entry: they also determine which neighboring letters must be considered. Word Run combines finding a valid word with fitting it among words already on the board.

Letter Values, High Scores and the Full Word Brain Sequence

Word length is only part of the scoring calculation: the letters making up an entry have individual point values. A, E, I, O and U are worth 10 points each, as are L, N, R, S and T. B, C, M and P are worth 30 each, while F, H, V, W and Y carry 40. At the upper end, J and X are worth 80, and Q and Z are worth 100 apiece. Longer words and more complex combinations score more, so an entry's letter composition matters alongside the number of letters it contains.

The six games can be played individually, while full Word Brain mode has you tackle each game in succession to earn an overall Word Brain score. Each game has its own high score table, with a separate table for the overall result. If you score high enough to qualify, you are taken to the name-entry screen.

First published Nov 7, 2026.