Anagramica

Overview

Ten letters sit on the board and the timer starts counting down. In Anagramica, an open-source word game by binarymax released under the MIT license, you draw or are dealt a rack of ten letters and race the clock to type every valid dictionary word those letters can form. There is no opponent and no network — this build is single-player against the timer, and it ships with its own roughly ninety-eight-thousand-word dictionary plus a built-in anagram engine, so the whole round runs offline in the browser. Scoring follows Scrabble-style letter values, with rare tiles like Q and X worth five and a bonus that doubles any word as long as the best possible anagram. At the end of each round that best anagram is revealed alongside your leftover letters, which turns every short word into a small bet on how much of the rack you can spend. It suits players who like Boggle-style pattern recognition under pressure rather than slow deduction.

How to Play

Pick a game type and a time limit — 15, 30, 45, 60, or 90 seconds — then draw your ten letters. In automatic mode the rack is dealt for you; in manual mode you draw one tile at a time, pressing C for a consonant or V for a vowel, with a two-copies-per-letter cap on the board. Type letters to build a word and press Enter or Esc to submit; Space starts a new game. Each submission is checked against the bundled dictionary, and when time runs out every word is tallied at Scrabble-style letter values, with a double bonus for any word as long as the best anagram and a penalty for invalid entries, before the best anagram is shown. Mouse users click the (C)onsonant and (V)owel buttons and the answer field; on touch the input goes read-only and you tap a board letter to append it, then tap the answer field to submit.

Tips & Strategy

Match the time limit to your typing speed: 15 seconds rewards reflex spellers, while 60 or 90 lets slower players hunt the high-value long word that doubles the score. Learn the tile values — Q and X are worth five, J and Z four, F/K/V/W/Y three — and treat rare tiles as priorities, since one Q- or X-word often outscores three short common ones. In manual mode, balance consonants and vowels as you draw, because a rack choked with one starves the other and leaves whole word families out of reach. Aim for length early: any word as long as the best anagram scores double, so spending the whole rack once usually beats several short entries. Avoid guessing — invalid words carry a penalty at tally, so submit only when you trust the spelling. Mind the two-copies-per-letter cap, and keep a common letter in reserve for a last-second long attempt.