Prompts

The letters you have to fit into your word.

A prompt is a short run of letters cut out of the language. The more words contain it, the easier it is.

Where prompts come from

Every prompt is a run of letters that real words in the language contain. Category rooms pull from just foods, birds or plants instead.

Japanese is cut along mora and Hindi along aksharas.

Rule	What your word has to do	Where it is used
Contains	The prompt sits somewhere inside the word.	Original, Chain Word and nearly every room.
Starts with	The word begins with the prompt.	Chain Word on Shiritori, and some custom rooms.

Kind	What the box shows
Syllable	Two to four letters. The usual one.
Prefix	The start of a word, so plenty of words begin with it.
Picture	A picture instead of letters. Plate and flag rooms use their own art.
Sound	A sound. The box shows a music note, and sending nothing replays it.
Question	A whole sentence, shrunk to fit over up to three lines.
Typing line	Type racer. Green for the letters you have right, red from the first you do not.
Masked	Hidden behind a challenge or an unreadable font.

Prompts get harder as the game runs.

Setting	Default	What it does
Words that must solve it	500 or more	Fewer as the game runs on.
Prompt lengths	Two and three letters	Four letter prompts start off and come in later.

Prompts you just had, and prompts whose words are already used up, get skipped. Room settings can override every row of this.

Stage	Length
Start of the game	11 seconds
Speeds up	Every few turns. The fewer players left, the sooner
Floor before turn 100	6 seconds
Floor after turn 100	5 seconds
Floor after turn 300	4 seconds
Rooms with a custom timer	8 seconds

A skin repaints the prompt box and the tiles.

You see the skin of the player taking the turn, not your own.

Sizes, positions and the prompt text never change.