How to Play

BlankPlays is a puzzle where you try to find all legal plays from a given Scrabble™* position, where the only tile on your rack is a single blank.

To begin, click/tap on a square on the board that is highlighted with a gray outline. Then click/tap on the tiles below the board, or press the corresponding keys on your keyboard, to select which letters you think can go in that position. You can also start by clicking a tile at the bottom of the board, then click on all positions where you think it can go.

If you think no letters play on a square, you can right-click it, or use the ø tile below the board, to mark it in red (this doesn’t affect scoring but might help you keep track of things). You can also select the square and press the Tab key.

When you’re done, click the “All done!” button. This will show you which plays you missed, which of your guesses were incorrect (form illegal words), and which were correct. You’ll get a score out of 100 based on how well you did.

By default, squares which only allow for 2 letter words are disabled. You can change this by turning off the “Skip 2’s” checkbox, or go even further and disable squares which only make 3/4 letter words with the “Skip 3/4’s” checkboxes.

You can select the lexicon (word list) to use with the little selector at the top. NWL is typically used in Canada and the United States, and CSW is used in the rest of the English-speaking world.

* BlankPlays is not an official or approved Scrabble product and is not associated with Hasbro or Mattel in any way.

Credits

These game positions were generated using the Macondo program’s autoplay feature, courtesy of César del Solar.

The NWL lexicon is by the North American Scrabble Players’ Association (NASPA), and the CSW lexicon is by HarperCollins.

Design/programming by pommicket.

Report an issue

Found something that can be fixed or improved? Please let me know! You can report an issue on the GitHub page or by sending an e-mail to pommicket@pommicket.com.