How To Play

Scoring

  • Move the cursor with the Arrow Keys.
  • Slide tiles horizontally by holding Z while moving to spell words with 4+ letters.
  • Clear words by moving the cursor atop them and pressing X to score points.

Rounds

  • Normal: Take your time setting up combos and clearing words.
  • Rush: After a certain number of tiles has been cleared, the Rush Round begins. Quickly clear
    as many of the remaining tiles as possible before the timer runs out.
  • Bonus: The length of the Bonus Round is based on the number of remaining tiles at the end
    of Rush. Clear words in a new board to squeeze out extra points while time lasts.


Advanced Tech

Combos

  • When a word is cleared all the tiles above it will fall. If these falling tiles form a word upon
    landing, this new word will also be cleared. Clearing tiles in combos nets extra points.

Pin

  • Pressing the C key will create a pin on the current tile.
  • While a pin is active, clearing and combo previews will behave as if the cursor is at the pin position.
  • Use this to visualize combos while building them.

Letter Search

  • Holding the Shift key and pressing any letter key will highlight all tiles containing that letter.
  • Holding both the Shift key and the Spacebar will highlight all vowels.

Multi-Select

  • Holding the Spacebar and moving the cursor will expand the size of the cursor allowing you
    to move multiple tiles at once.

Undo

  • During the Normal Round the Backspace key can be used to undo back to the last time a
    word was cleared.
  • Undo can be used up to 5 times in a row.
  • During the Rush and Bonus Rounds, holding the undo button will skip to the end of the round.
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5, Windows, Linux
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
AuthorCronno
GenrePuzzle
Made withPaint.net, Rust, Inkscape
TagsArcade, Casual, combos, macroquad, Minimalist, panel-de-pon, rust, spelling, Tetris, Word game
Average sessionA few minutes
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard
AccessibilityConfigurable controls

Download

Download
smirky-windows.zip 4.5 MB
Download
smirky-linux.tar.gz 5.8 MB

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This might get addictive. Make it mouse/touch friendly and you've got a winner.