How to play HATCH

1. Drag your finger across touching letters, in any direction including diagonals. Lift to submit the word. On a computer you can click the letters one by one, or type the word and press Enter.
2. Words need three or more letters. Each letter square can be used once per word.
3. Points rise with length: 3 letters is 1 point, 4 is 2, 5 is 4, 6 is 7, 7 is 11. Words with J, X, Z or K earn one extra point. Words found back to back build a combo. Rare words are accepted as bonus words worth 1 point each; they do not count toward the egg's rarity.
4. The egg has three cracks. After the third crack you can hatch it, or keep going for a rarer creature: common, uncommon, rare or legendary. The lines for each rarity are set by how well players do on that board, so legendary is hard.
5. A creature you already have turns into shards. Open the creature book to see what you have found.

Tips

• Find the short words first to crack the egg, then look for long ones.
• Look for endings that grow words: S, ED, ER and ING.
• Find words quickly one after another for a combo. The combo bonus adds a point to each word from the third in a row.
• Want a challenge? Turn on timed mode in settings: 90 seconds an egg, with lower targets.

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