About Words90

Words90 is a fast-paced, competitive word puzzle game designed to test your vocabulary, pattern recognition, and speed under pressure. You have exactly 90 seconds to find as many words as possible from a dynamic, ever-changing grid of 16 tiles.

How to Play

The Grid: You play on a 4x4 grid. The center 4 tiles are "Fixed" and always visible. The outer 12 tiles start face-down.
Reveal & Race: Tap a hidden tile to reveal it. It becomes "Temp" (Yellow) and immediately starts a 9-second countdown. If you don't use it before the timer runs out, it flips back over!
Select to Pause: When you tap a yellow tile to add it to your word selection, its decay timer pauses. This gives you a critical moment to breathe and think. If you deselect it, the timer resumes exactly where it left off.
Score Big: Longer words trigger massive Escalating Multipliers. A standard 3-letter word might be 4 points, but a 6-letter word gets an x3 point multiplier! Go long for top scores.
Bank It: Hit the BANK button (or the green checkmark) to submit your word. Valid words clear the selected tiles and replace them with fresh letters.

Multiplayer Leaderboards

Compete in real-time! Create an account to permanently save your best scores to our global leaderboard. Can you crack the Daily Top 10 High Scores?

Meet the Creator

Mark is a Cape Town based filmmaker, with an interest both in word games and language learning.

"I play Scrabble about once per week, and that inspired me to create Words90 to train myself to see words within letters much faster.

I also once taught TEFL English to foreign language students, and am busy learning German, so I know the value of games in the learning process.

And I used my filmmaking skills to help design the feeling and experience when playing this game.

So really Words90 is a nexus of my interests. And thank goodness I had the coding master Avron to implement the game and bring it to life online."