Today's letters: everyone gets the exact same 3 consonants plus 1 auto-selected vowel today. Same letters, same order — the only thing that changes is what you build from them.

Your clock starts the moment you begin — you have 3 minutes to build as many words as you can.

Buy more, or play it safe: everyone starts with $10 in mock bucks — play money with no cash value, just for keeping score. Spend it to unlock up to 3 more vowels, or skip buying and take 3 more consonants for free instead — either way you end up with 7 letters to build words from.

Scoring: word length pays off fast (10 points for 3 letters, up to 250 for 8+), and any cash you don't spend converts to bonus points too — but only at half the value of an equivalent-length word, so a real word always beats playing it safe.

You get one official attempt per day. Practice rounds don't touch the leaderboard, so play as many as you want without spending your one shot.