How to Play Charming

Overview

Charming is a daily word game where you create words by connecting "charm" letters on a "friendship" bracelet. Your goal is to score as many points as possible by filling the bracelet with words! You can play once per day. It resets at midnight UTC. Look at the footer of the website to see how long until a new game starts.Submit your score to see how you rank against other players!

Quick Overview

  • Use the keyboard to fill the "charms" on the "bracelet" with letters to form words. Backspace removes letters.
  • Lock words to register them as completed. Unlock words to edit them by tapping the 🔒 symbol.
  • Rotate the bracelet to change the letter positions.
  • The blue dots on the charms are the charm score multipliers. They do not rotate.
  • The orange dots on the charms are the letter scores. They rotate with the bracelet.
  • Letter scores are shown on the keys. They decrease by 1 each time you use a letter.
  • Tap the center of the bracelet to toggle a more detailed score breakdown.
  • Submit your score to see how you rank against other players!

Scoring

  • The score is generated word-by-word.
  • Each letter's score is the charm multiplier (blue dots) multiplied by the letter's points (orange dots).
  • The Longest Word Bonus is equal to the number of letters in the longest word.
  • The Word Count Bonus is equal to the number of words you have completed.
  • Each word's score is the sum of letter scores x 10.
  • The total score is the sum of all the word scores + the Longest Word Bonus + the Word Count Bonus.

Detailed Overview

'Charms'
These are called "charms." Fill them with letters to form words. The blue dots are charm score multipliers. 1 dot is 1x the letter score. 2 dots are 2x the letter score, etc. These are randomized daily. Tap or click a charm to make it the current "active" charm.
The keyboard
Tap/click the letters or type to form words. The number on each key represents the number of points the letter is worth. Each time you use the letter, the number decreases by 1 until it reaches 0. Orange dots that represent the letter score appear on a charm when a letter is added to it. You can use letters once they've reached 0, but you will get no points for them. These are randomized daily.

Use the backspace key to remove letters from charms.
A completed and locked word.
Once you have spelled a word, tap enter or press return to submit and lock it in. Once locked, the arc around it will be colorful. Unlocked words have a grey arc. Words can be unlocked! If you want to unlock a word, tap the 🔒 symbol.
Rotation arrows
Tap/click the arrows to rotate the letters on the bracelet. This does not rotate the charm score multipliers -- just the letters. It is a good idea to rotate your bracelet before submitting, to make sure your letters are in the optimal positions. On a computer, the left and right arrows will rotate the bracelet.
A completed bracelet.
Your goal is to score as many points as possible by filling the bracelet with words! When the bracelet is full with valid words, a submit button will appear. At this point, you can still unlock words and edit your bracelet or rotate it. Once you click submit, you can no longer edit your bracelet.
Score circle
Tap/click the center of the bracelet to toggle a more detailed score breakdown.

Leaderboard

  • When you are done and have submitted your final bracelet, visit the leaderboard to see how you rank against other players!
  • You can use profanity in your words, but most profane words will appear as **** on the leaderboard.
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