Pivotile: rules, scoring and a few habits
Nine letter tiles, four pivots and six rotations. Tap a pivot where four tiles meet and those tiles turn clockwise together. The letters stay the same, but their neighbours change. A word that was just out of reach can suddenly fit.
Trace a word
Drag through neighbouring letters, including diagonals, and release to submit. A word needs at least three letters, and each tile can appear only once in that word. The tiles stay on the board, so you can use them again in your next word. Submit six different words to finish the round.
The pivot buttons tuck away while you trace, leaving a clear path across the board. A word trace never rotates tiles. The six rotations belong to the whole round, so think about which words a turn might open before you spend one.
Make a longer connection
Add the letter values, then multiply by the word's length. Longer words earn more through that multiplication. Start a word with the last letter of your previous word to earn a 30-point chain bonus. There is no countdown and no required target word.
After the round, browse the words you found and the words you could have reached. Each word can show a route from the original board. Different words may need different rotations; the full list cannot all be collected in one six-word round.
Plan your turns
Before you spend a rotation, look for the words the board already allows and trace a couple of them first. Then pick the pivot that brings a useful pair of letters together, such as a vowel next to a common ending. A single turn can open several new words at once, so save your later rotations for the longer ones.
Everyone gets the same board on the same day. Free Play selects another board. On a keyboard, move focus with the arrow keys, choose letters with Space and submit with Enter. Backspace removes the last letter, and keys 1 to 4 turn the pivots from top left to bottom right.