Rack Attack Word Game

Rack Attack is a classic crossword tile game: draw seven letters, build words on the board, land the bonus squares and outscore your opponent. PLAY THE COMPUTER Choose from five levels. Easy is relaxed and forgiving; Expert is a serious opponent that will punish a loose board. The computer plays only from its own rack and never sees yours. The computer is set up to avoid slurs and crude words. PLAY A FRIEND Challenge a friend over Game Center. Games are invite-only (no matching with strangers) and turn-based: make your move, and your friend plays whenever they next open the game. Game Center sends you a notification when it is your turn. Both players need to be signed in to Game Center. LEARN AS YOU PLAY After every turn, Analyze shows how your play compares with the highest-scoring plays you could have made, so you can spot the words you missed and improve game by game. Tap any word to look it up in Apple's dictionary. BEST PLAY A practice puzzle on a real board with a full rack. Find the highest-scoring play, try again if you miss, and earn Platinum, Gold, Silver or Bronze. Your results are kept in Stats. YOUR RULES Assisted word checking rejects invalid words before you play and explains why a play isn't valid. Honor word checking gives no hints: an invalid word costs you the turn, just like at the kitchen table. In Honor games against the computer you can switch on Challenges: a play stands unless the computer calls it, and a wrong call costs the caller a turn. You choose how bold each level is in Settings. PASS AND PLAY Hand the phone or iPad back and forth for a two-player game on one device. HISTORY AND STATS Every game is saved. Resume any game where you left off, look back at finished games turn by turn, and track your wins, bingos and best plays. MADE FOR PLAYING • Drag tiles straight from your rack; the board zooms in as you place them • Shuffle, exchange, pass and see which tiles are still unseen • Pick one of 12 original avatars or use your own photo • Play vs Computer and Pass and Play work fully offline, with no account; Play a Friend uses Game Center • Free, with no ads, no in-app purchases, no tracking and no account of its own • Works on iPhone and iPad The word list is based on the public-domain ENABLE list. WHAT'S NEW IN 1.1 • Word definitions: tap a word to look it up in Apple's dictionary, from Analyze, the final board, History and the word lists. With no entry, Search the web hands that one word to your browser. • Two- and three-letter word lists, from the book button on Home. • Challenges (Play vs Computer, Honor): turn on Challenges in New Game and the computer may call your word. A wrong challenge costs the challenger a turn. Choose how bold each computer level is in Settings. • Best Play: a practice puzzle with a real board and rack. Find the highest-scoring play and earn a medal. • Game over has a View board button, and a finished game in History opens at its final board. • Friend games: Resign is a flag in the toolbar, and games that end unexpectedly stay in History as No result. • Who goes first: a new game opens with a tile draw, and the letter nearest A starts. Pass and Play now picks a random first player. • The last play is shown: when the computer or a friend ends the game, you see that play on the board before the final scores. • Steadier saving and import of friend games, and many small fixes.