How to play
Word Snatch is the old tile game Anagrams, played live. Letter tiles turn face up in the middle one at a time, every few seconds. There are no turns: anyone can type a word whenever they see one.
- Make a word of four letters or more from the tiles in the middle. Those tiles become yours.
- Steal a word by adding one or more middle tiles to a word someone already has (or one of your own) and mixing them into a new word. TEAM plus S can become MEATS or MATES, and it moves to you.
- Just adding letters to the front or back doesn’t count: TEAM to TEAMS or STEAM is refused. The letters have to move.
- When the bag is empty, there’s a short wait for any last grabs, then the game ends. Every letter in your words is a point.
Words come from the public-domain ENABLE word list. Playing alone, you can turn the next tile over straight away.
Tips
Keep an eye on the short words around the table: four-letter words are the easiest to steal, and a longer word is safer. Letters like S, E, D and R slot into lots of words, while Q, X and Z are hard to use, so grab them when you can. Try reading the middle tiles in a different order: words often hide in plain sight.