The 9x9 board
The 9x9 board is the brutal board. A round on it starts with a seed word across the middle row, and you make 8 plays from a rack of 7.
- Difficulty
- Brutal
- Cells
- 81
- Premium squares
- 20 (25% of the board)
- Exotic square types
- 5 of the 14, chosen per board
- Plays
- 8
- Tiles in the bag
- 40
- Rack
- 7 tiles
Which premium squares a board carries, and where, changes from puzzle to puzzle; the counts above do not.