Linotype

Drop each letter into the well. Lines that read are cast.

How to play

  1. Letters come off the magazine one at a time. Touch a column of the well, or press its number, and the letter falls to the lowest free cell.
  2. Any row or column that reads as a word of four letters or more is cast: it clears, and whatever was above it falls. Longer words are worth far more.
  3. The wand is a blank matrix: it counts as whichever letter makes a line read, like the blank tile in Scrabble. One comes every twenty-odd letters. The example above casts with one.
  4. You can see the next three letters. Set one aside and swap it back in later; a few times a day you can refuse a letter altogether. The day ends when the magazine runs out or the well fills.