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Guess the 5-letter word in 6 tries. You only score points if your final guess is correct — and the longer you can hold off landing it, the more that final guess is worth.
Guess correctly on turn 1 and you bank almost nothing. Stall on real near-miss words and save the win for turn 6, and the payoff is much bigger.
Every letter carries a Scrabble-style point value — shown in the corner of every tile, and on every key of the keyboard too, so you know what a letter is worth before you even type it.
If you never land the word by guess 6, everything resets to zero — even a huge potential score.
Target word: JOIST