Zol's Words Build words, tile by tile, against a friend.

The rules

• You each draw letter tiles from a shared bag onto a private rack — you only ever see your own.
• On your turn, lay tiles in a line to make a word. The first move crosses the centre; after that, every new word has to connect to what's already on the board.
• You score the word you made plus every crossing word it forms, and premium squares multiply letters and words.
• Every word you create — the one you meant and any you form across it — has to be a real one. When the bag runs dry, the higher score wins.

Play at your own pace

Words is correspondence-style: take your turn whenever you like, and your friend takes theirs when they're free — you never have to be online at the same time. The difficulty your challenger picks sets a per-turn timer, from a relaxed ninety seconds down to a brisk thirty. There's also an optional set of "chaos" twists you can agree to before you start — a rack that reshuffles, premium squares that wander, a board that grows words of its own.

The board only shows your own rack. The other half of the game is reading what your friend is sitting on.

Play it

Play Zol's Words in your browser — nothing to download. It's a friend-versus-friend game, so bring someone to play against. Creating an account is free, and new players get a 30-day preview with full access to every game in the catalogue.

Prefer a word puzzle you can play solo? Try Zol's Cipher, guess a hidden word from colour clues, Zol's Codebreaker, crack a phrase behind a scrambled alphabet, or Zol's Links, sort sixteen words into four hidden groups.