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How does the Daily Roll work?

At midnight UTC, one seeded roll of twelve letter dice goes out to the whole world: every player gets the exact same puzzle. Connect all twelve tiles into a single crossword to complete the day.

How do streaks work?

Complete the Daily Roll to extend your streak by one. Miss a day and the streak breaks, unless a shield covers it. Play seven days running and you earn a shield; you can hold two at most, and one shield covers one missed day. The next solve after the miss spends it on its own, and the win card says so. Miss two days in a row and the streak goes. Free Play games are unlimited and don't affect your streak.

How does the leaderboard work?

Finish the Daily Roll, pick a name, and your board joins the day's global ranking; no account, ever. Boards rank by score, with solve time only breaking ties, and a 30-day board adds up the month. Every submitted board is replayed and re-scored on the server. You can opt out, change your name, or remove every score you've posted from Settings.

What are badges?

Eighteen feats, in four kinds: what one board can be, never missing a day, Daily Rolls finished whenever they fell, and one for the first finished Daily Roll you share. Once earned, they're yours for good. Tap any badge in the app to see it full size and what it asks of you.

Which words count?

Wordsicle checks your words against a built-in dictionary of over 170,000 English words. Words need at least three letters, any two tiles that touch have to spell a word, and every tile on the board has to connect into one crossword.

How do I add the widget?

Press and hold your Home Screen, tap the + button, search for Wordsicle, and pick a size. The widget shows your streak and whether today's roll is still waiting, and once you've solved it, the board you built.

Where is my data stored?

Your boards, scores, streak and badges live on your device. If you join the daily leaderboard, your name, scores and finished boards also go to the leaderboard server under a random ID the app makes up; the privacy policy has the full list. Deleting the app no longer deletes your history: on iPhone it's mirrored to your iCloud, on Android to Android Backup, so a reinstall gets it back. And if you were on the leaderboard, the board can hand your scores back too.