Filigree: Live Word Puzzles

⚡ Everyone plays the same board. At the same time.

Every two minutes, a fresh 4x4 grid drops for every player at once. Same letters. Same clock. When the timer hits zero, the leaderboard shows exactly where you landed. 🏆

No lobbies. No waiting for an opponent. Open the app and a round is already live — or go offline and play with a smart coach, or all on your own.

✏️ HOW TO PLAY

Swipe through connected letters to make a word. Go across, down, round corners, even backwards. Every letter has a value, so an X or a Q is worth hunting down — and long words score far more than short ones.

⏱️ Two minutes to play.
📊 Forty seconds to see the standings.
🔁 Then a brand-new board.

⚡ POWER WINDOWS

Partway through each round, a bonus flashes onto the board for twenty seconds:
🔥 One tile lights up and triples its letter
📏 Every word of five letters or more scores 1.5x
Spot it fast — it's worth more than one extra word.

🧩 THE DAILY CLUE

One clue a day, the same for everyone.
"What a compass gives, and a film needs" — nine letters, hidden somewhere in the grid.

Some days it's a theme instead, with up to three words to track down. Crack it, keep your streak alive, and share your result without spoiling it for anyone.

🎓 LEARN WITH A SMART COACH

An untimed board, and a coach that reads it with you.
💡 Spots patterns: endings worth sweeping for, a word you found that can grow longer, a tile where lots of words start
👣 Stuck? It walks you toward a word one step at a time, instead of just handing it over
📖 Every word it leads you to comes with its meaning

New to the game? Your very first board teaches you to trace.

🧘 SOLO PLAY

Just want a quiet board? No coach, a clock only if you want one, unlimited hints, no leaderboard.

✈️ Both work with no connection at all — on a plane, on the subway, anywhere the signal gives out.

🔍 WHAT YOU MISSED

Most word games show your score and move on. Filigree shows you the whole board: every word you found, every word you missed and what it was worth, plus the obscure ones nobody was going to get. Tap any word to watch its path light up on the board and read what it means.

Then come the Close Calls — the words you almost had.
You found MEANING… the board was hiding MEANINGFUL.
You found REFER… REFERRAL was sitting right there.
That's the part that makes the next round different.

📚 YOUR WORDS

Every word you find is kept: your best find, your longest word, your latest finds, and the ones you keep coming back to. A collection that grows with every round.

🎨 PICK A LOOK

Six themes — from paper and ink to deep green to something louder — or mix your own colours. Set it once and the whole game follows.

🚫 NO ACCOUNT. NO ADS. NO PURCHASES.

No sign-up — open the app and play. No advertising, no in-app purchases, no advertising identifier. Nothing profiles you or follows you into another app. Pick a display name for the leaderboard, or don't — the game runs either way.

✅ Every word is checked on the server against the board and the dictionary, so nobody can just type in a score.

Made for anyone who loves anagrams, word searches, crosswords or classic letter-grid games — whether you want to race the world, learn new words, or just sit with a board on your own.

Free. Genuinely free. 💛

Recent changes:
What's new in 1.8

• A new icon, easier to pick out on a home screen
• Finish a couple of games and Filigree will ask, once, whether you would rate it