Table Party

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Nine letters. Both of you. Don’t double up.

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Host a room, friends join with a code from their own phones.

Four racks of nine letters, forty-five seconds each, both phones typing at once. Your best word stands the moment the dictionary takes it — but the same word on both phones scores once, so the whole game is splitting the rack out loud.

How to play

1. Nine letters, forty-five seconds — four rounds, both of you hunting at once.
2. Type any real word of three letters or more spelled from the rack. It stands when the dictionary takes it.
3. You can replace your standing word right up to the buzzer.
4. At the whistle both standing words score their length; all nine letters at once scores 18.
5. The SAME word on both phones scores once — call out what you’re chasing.
6. Both happy early? Either of you can call it and bank the round.

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