About Honeycomb
Find words in a cluster of seven letters. Every word needs the centre letter, but you can reuse letters as often as you like. Longer words score more; a word using all seven earns a bonus.
Choose any of 100 fixed hives, revisit a collection, or try the shared Daily. Work toward five ranks, hunt for every accepted word, or finish whenever you are satisfied.
How to play
- Goal
- Find words using the hive’s seven letters.
- How it ends
- Finish when satisfied, or find every word.
- Record
- Best score; first-attempt time to each rank.
- Choose a hive or Daily. Make words of 4–24 letters using only the seven shown, always including the centre letter. Letters may repeat.
- Tap letters or type a word, then press Enter. Each accepted word scores once: 4 letters earn 1 point; longer words earn their length. Using all seven different letters adds 7 points.
- Work toward Sprout, Bud, Bloom, Flourish and Full hive. Shuffle changes only the outer letter positions. Invalid words cost nothing.
- Choose Finish to keep a partial score, or find every accepted word to complete the hive. Daily shares its hive and records with the collection.
Controls
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| Tap or click a letter | Add it to the draft |
| Enter / Enter button | Submit the word |
| Backspace / Delete | Remove the last letter |
| Shuffle | Rearrange the outer letters |
| Escape | Close a dialog |
| Gamepad A / X / B | Choose a letter or action / submit / delete or back |
| Gamepad Y / RB / Start | Rules / shuffle / menu |
Tips
- Reuse a letter A word can use the same letter several times. Try familiar endings and related words.
- Try all seven Look for a word containing every hive letter. Its seven-point bonus can move you toward the next rank.
Good to know
Progress stays in this browser. Clocks keep running through menus and restarts. Reloaded hives are practice for rank times. Restart permits a new score improvement but never resets first-attempt timing. Accepted words follow this game’s English spelling list, not every dictionary.
Watch how to play
Questions
Why was my word refused?
A word must use only the hive letters, include the centre, have 4–24 letters and appear in this game’s vocabulary. Each accepted word can score once per collection.
Is Daily an extra hive?
Daily selects one of the 100 collection hives by UTC date. Both routes share saved progress and records.
