How to play Scramblio

🔤The basics

Every round shows the letters of one word, mixed up.

OSUHE→✓ HOUSE

1. Look at the mixed-up letters. Tap Shuffle to mix them again, as often as you like.
2. Spell the word. A right one is sent by itself.
3. Find it first and the round is yours.

1. Letters appear scrambled on screen.
2. Tap the letters into the word, in order: each one drops into the next empty place, and a full word is sent by itself. Tap a placed letter to take it back, or Clear to start over.
3. The first correct answer wins immediately — even if time is still on the clock.
4. Wrong answers don't end the round; you can keep trying until you get it right, run out of personal time (see hints below), or the global timer hits zero.

If nobody answers correctly before the global timer expires, the round ends with no winner: neither player gets it.

🎯Live · now

Play right now, against someone online.

1. On Home, pick the words' language and an arena, then tap Live match.
2. Nobody free right now? A practice opponent 🤖 plays you.
3. You both get the same word. The first to spell it wins the round; whoever wins more rounds wins the match and its reward.

🏟️Cost · words · XP

Every arena has its own cost, win reward, XP and words.

1. On Home, swipe through the arenas: the one in the middle is where you play.
2. A dearer arena pays more, gives more XP and draws harder words.
3. New arenas open as your level grows.

• ☕

  Café

  Easy words · Cost: 50 🪙 · Win reward: 95 🪙

• 📚

  Bookshop

  Easy and medium words · Cost: 100 🪙 · Win reward: 190 🪙

• 📰

  NewsroomLevel 2

  Medium words · Cost: 250 🪙 · Win reward: 475 🪙

• 🖨️

  Print ShopLevel 3

  Medium words · Cost: 500 🪙 · Win reward: 950 🪙

• 🎭

  TheatreLevel 5

  Medium and hard words · Cost: 1,000 🪙 · Win reward: 1,900 🪙

• 🎓

  AcademyLevel 10

  Hard words · Cost: 2,500 🪙 · Win reward: 4,750 🪙

• 🏛️

  Great LibraryLevel 15

  Hard words · Cost: 5,000 🪙 · Win reward: 9,500 🪙

• 🗼

  Tower of BabelLevel 20

  Hard words · Cost: 10,000 🪙 · Win reward: 19,000 🪙

⚔️3 rounds · anytime

Play whenever it suits you; someone plays the same words later.

1. Play 3 rounds of 60 seconds each.
2. Someone else plays the same words later. We let you know when the result is in.
3. More rounds won wins the duel. Level on rounds? The lower total time wins.

👥Friends

Add friends, see who is online, and play them live or in a duel.

1. In the Friends tab, add someone by name or by code. An invite link makes you friends at once.
2. Tap a friend, pick an arena, then Live match or Duel.
3. Or play by code: Create Room makes a private room, Join Room enters one.

📅Events · every day

One word a day, the same for everyone. The fastest wins the day.

1. Open the Events tab and start the word of the day. It is free, once a day.
2. Your time runs from the moment the word appears until your right answer.
3. A hint shows the next letter, for coins or for a video, and adds seconds to your time.

⭐Events · every day

A few small goals every day. Each one pays coins and XP.

1. Just play: your rounds, your wins, the Blitz and the events count by themselves.
2. When a goal is done, tap Collect on its row.
3. Finish all of them in a day for a bonus on top.

⚡Events · every day

One minute: unscramble as many words as you can.

1. Easy and medium words, one after another.
2. A right answer takes you to the next word at once. Stuck? Tap Skip.
3. Your best try of the day goes on the day's board.

🏆Events · every week

A week of knock-out. When a stage closes, the fastest go on and the rest are out.

1. Qualifiers (5 days): anyone can enter. One round a day is free, and your fastest time counts.
2. Semifinal (1 day): only the fastest of the qualifiers play it, one round each.
3. Final (1 day): the same words for everyone. The three fastest stand on the podium.

👑Events · every week

Three steps to a final word. Each step wins you one of its letters.

1. The safe: solve the words to get its key. Inside is the first letter of the final word.
2. The guardian: solve the words to beat it, and you win the last letter.
3. The final word: a hard one, with the two letters you won shown.

🧩Events · every week

Words from one field: animals, food, travel… A new theme every week.

1. The words come one after another, the easy ones first.
2. The theme is your clue: every answer belongs to it.
3. Your time for all of them goes on the week’s board.

🎒Your look

Avatars, frames and letter styles: how the other players see you.

1. Open the Items tab and tap what you like.
2. Pay with coins, or unlock it by watching videos.
3. Some are earned: by levels, by your collection, by winning the Cup.

🪙Coins and XP

Where coins come from, and what they are for.

• 🎁The daily reward grows for 7 days in a row.
• ▶️A short video gives you 125 🪙.
• 🏆Wins in live matches and duels, and top places on the day's boards.
• 🏅Events: prizes for the fastest, and coins for the day’s challenges.
• ⭐Every round gives XP. Each new level brings coins; some open arenas and tile styles.

Only a hard word gets a hint, and only when it has more than four letters: it starts with its first letter shown, for free, and while the round is on you can take one hint, which reveals the second letter to you only. Easy and medium words have no hints and no Hint button. The same rule holds against the practice opponent and in duels. Apart from the hints, in a live match and a duel a word also shows free letters as the clock runs down.

• Answers are checked server-side with a Firebase transaction — only the first correct submission wins.
• Hint requests run through a Cloud Function — coins are debited server-side and you can't double-charge yourself.
• In a duel, the server measures both players' times, the same way for each.
• Leaving a match once its first round has started loses the match to the opponent who stays.
• Coins and stats are managed server-side; the client cannot edit its own balance.

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