Score the board on your table
Snap a photo after each turn. Tripleword finds the new tiles, checks every word and keeps the score. No internet needed.
A word game is quick to play and slow to keep.
Someone adds up every turn: the letter values, the double letter under the Z, the triple word at the end of the row, the cross-word nobody noticed. One slip and the totals are wrong for the rest of the night.
Then a word looks odd, and the game stops while someone hunts for a dictionary. And the whole score lives on one scrap of paper.
Tripleword takes all three jobs, so the table gets back to playing.
One photo, the whole turn scored
First, snap the board from above.
Hold the phone flat over the table and line the board up with the frame. One photo per turn.
On the home board set it was tested with, it read 99.2% of letters on held-out test photos1 (see note 1). Anything it misreads is one tap to fix, before the score counts.
Line the board up with the frame
- TABacross, the new word5
- ITdown, through the blank i1
- ZAdown, through the Z11
- TAB1 + 1 + 35
- ITi(0) + 11
- ZA10 + 111
Score a first word yourself
Type a word for the opening play. It starts on the centre star, which doubles the word. Tap a tile to make it a blank.
42points
Q + U + i(0) + Z = 21 × 2 = 42
Seven tiles in one play add the 50-point bingo. This only does the arithmetic; the app also checks the word against the dictionary and scores every cross-word.
Fair hints
Help from the phone, on rules the table agrees before the first tile goes down. Every request is announced; what the hint said stays private.
Nudge
The best score on the board for your rack, and whether a bingo is possible.
Spot
The nudge, plus a 5 × 5 area that holds the best play, and how long the word is.
Reveal
The five best plays with their scores, shown on the board.
- Tokens per player
- 3, none, or unlimited for a practice game
- Points per token
- 0, or set a cost such as 5 for a competitive game
- Approval
- Announce, or the opponent approves each request
- Handicap
- Give a newer player more tokens
- Assisted plays
- Marked with a star in the turn log and the final summary
Play together
Pass one phone round the table, or let two to four players each use their own. The phones talk over your Wi-Fi or one phone’s hotspot. A guest joins by scanning a code.
- AAnato play
- BBennext
- CCara
Room code
482 913
- AAna (you)host
- BBenjoined
Scan the code on the host’s phone, or type its address and room code.
192.168.43.1 · 482 913
Your game stays on your phone
Scoring, the dictionary, the hints and the photo reading all run on the phone. Photos of the board and your rack are never uploaded.
There is no account and no server in the middle. Linked phones talk to each other directly over your own network.
Mistakes are cheap
Undo the last turn, or open any earlier turn and change it: a letter, a blank, a challenged word. Every score after it is worked out again.
- 1Ana · QUIZ42
- 2Ben · TAB17
- 3Ana ·
ZONEZONESre-scored - 4Ben · FAQIR ★re-scored
Bring it to your next game night
We’re starting a small beta with real game nights. Leave your email and we’ll send you an invite.
Questions
Does it work with my board?
It reads the classic 15 × 15 layout. Its photo reader learned mostly from one home set, so other sets and lighting may need a few taps to fix. Finding out is what the beta is for.
Do we need the internet?
No. Scoring, the dictionary and the photo reading run on the phone, and linked phones only need the same Wi-Fi or one phone’s hotspot.
Which dictionary does it use?
ENABLE+, a free word list with modern two-letter words such as QI and ZA. Clubs that play NWL or Collins can import their own copy as a text file.
What about blanks?
Tap a tile to mark it as a blank. It scores zero, and the working shows it as a small letter.
Can we play without hints?
Yes. Hints can be off, limited by tokens, or unlimited for practice, and the table decides before the game.
What if it reads a letter wrong?
You see the new tiles before the score counts. Tap a square to fix it, or retake the photo. You can also type a play instead.
Who made it?
Tripleword is an independent app, not made by any board-game company.
- Measured in November 2026 with the app’s on-device photo reader (model run 2) on 20 photos of one home board set that it never saw during training: 99.2% of letters were read correctly. Other sets, lighting and angles can read worse, and every square can be corrected with a tap before the score counts.