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Tap letters in order to spell a word.
Tap the tiles in order and the letters fly up into the word row — three letters at least, up to all six.
Boardee Arcade · Word games
Word Flow
Build words from a flow of letters.
A quiet, absorbing word-builder for the moments you need students productively occupied — early finishers, soft starts, the last five minutes of a Friday.
Also known as: anagram game · scrabble-style word game
👥 Solo✨ AI fills the content
- Free for teachers · students never need accounts
How to play
Build as many words as you can from the letters.
That's the goal — no rules to teach. Here's how a round of Word Flow runs.
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Submit it to score — longer words score more.
Spell Check scores it on Scrabble letter values, so longer and rarer letters pay more; a wrong guess just shakes, with no penalty.
Keep building before the timer runs out.
The word banks, the tiles come back, and you go again — as many words as you can find before the 100-second timer runs out.
Ways to play
One round, three ways to run it
The same Word Flow works as a front-of-class game, a live device race, or a self-paced station. Pick at press-play — nothing to rebuild.
On the big screen
Project one round and the whole class plays together — students call out the words hiding in the six letters while you (or the kid whose turn it is) taps them in. No devices, no codes, no setup.
Zero devices · zero prepLive on their devices
Everyone gets the same six letters at once and races the clock on their own screen — phones, tablets, chromebooks, any browser. When the timer stops, the leaderboard ranks them by score.
Join code or QR · no student accountsIn their own time
Share one play link and it becomes an early-finisher station or a take-home five minutes. Each student gets their own fresh letters, and their score lands in your results — no chasing.
One link · results tracked for youWhere the words hide
Six letters, dozens of words
Word Flow deals six random letters — and every set hides a heap of words, from quick threes to the six-letter find that uses them all. No topic to pick, no list to type: just press play.
TAPLEN
PLANET+8
6uses every letter
PMLAES
SAMPLE+10
6uses every letter
PCEATR
TRACE+7
55-letter word
OPTISL
SPLIT+7
55-letter word
APTREI
RIPE+6
44-letter word
OHSNTE
HEN+6
3rare letters score more
Every rack guarantees a six-letter word and a pile of shorter ones — no two rounds the same.
The library
Word Flow is one shape of twenty-five
The Arcade is a shelf of classroom games that all launch the same way — a big screen or a join code, and never a student account. Word Flow is the one that needs nothing from you first: no topic, no list, no setup. Press play and a fresh set of letters is already waiting.
- 25 game types, from quiz shows to word puzzles
- Word Flow is instant — zero prep, a new rack every round
- Pin it to a board and it's one tap away all year
When to reach for it
Made for the in-between moments
Word Flow is the quiet one — no teams, no buzzers, no marking. It's the game you hand a class when you need five calm, productive minutes and none of the fuss.
Early finishers
Its natural home. Finished the task? Grab a device, get a fresh rack, race the 100-second clock. Rounds are short by design, so nobody parks here for the whole lesson.
Soft starts
A calm bell-ringer while the class trickles in. Project one rack and the room settles into finding words instead of chatting — no login, no instructions to give.
The last five minutes
Lesson's done, five minutes on the clock, everyone's restless. One round fills them — productively, and with zero prep from you. Press play and the letters are already there.
Built for the classroom
AI fills it. You press play.
Every Arcade game starts from the same box: type what you're teaching and the content writes itself — questions, words, clues — ready for the board at the front of the room.
- Real content on your topic and grade — skim, edit or reroll before the class sees it
- Big type and chunky buttons, readable from the back row
- Students join with a code and a name — no accounts, ever
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Game types in the Arcade — one topic box fills them all
60s
From typing a topic to pressing play
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Student accounts — a code and a first name is the whole login
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Steps every time: type it, check it, play it
I typed 'the water cycle' and had a class quiz in ten seconds flat. It's the first tool my whole department adopted.
FAQ
Good to know
Is it a solo game?
Yes — students play self-paced on their own device from a shared link. Or project one round and have the class call out words while you tap.
Do students need devices?
For individual play, any browser works — phone, tablet, chromebook. No downloads, no installs.
How does scoring work?
Tap letters in order to spell a word and submit it — longer words score more, and the timer keeps every round short and honest.
Is it free?
Yes. Word Flow is included on Boardee's free tier, along with every other game type.
Do students need accounts?
Never. Students join with a code and a name — no emails, no passwords. Teachers don't need an account to try it either.
Same box, different shape
More word games
Same three steps, different game. Type a topic and pick your shape.
What are you teaching tomorrow?
Type it in, check the content, press play. The Arcade does the rest.