3×3 Initiate Forge

The Round

An invalid word costs 1 point on this board.

Reading the Board

• The gold trail is the path traced across the tiles, in the order they were touched.
• A word turns the tiles under it pale gold; an invalid one turns them red.
• ★ is the wild tile — it stands in for exactly one letter of the player's choosing.
• The clock counts up from the start of the round, not down.