Instructions
Glyph Corral
Rope touching letter tiles into words on a 5x5 pasture before the 90-second clock runs out. Long words add seconds, back-to-back words build a chain, and used tiles are replaced from a seeded stream.
- Year
- 2003
- Era
- Early Web
- Genre
- Word / Letter chain
Free, no sign-up. Keyboard, touch or gamepad.
How to play
- Drag across touching tiles (diagonals count) and release to submit.
- Keys: arrows move, Space adds a tile (again on the last tile to submit), X backs up, Enter submits.
- P to pause.
On touch
- Drag across touching tiles and let go to lasso a word.
Every run starts on the title screen. Pause any time with P or the pause button; calm mode removes flashes and screen shake.
Maker’s note
Words of 3+ letters score 10 / 20 / 40 / 80 / 150 / 250 by length and add up to 7 seconds; every third word in a row raises the chain multiplier (max x4). A wrong word breaks the chain. The board and every refill come from a seed, so a daily run is the same pasture for everyone. Typed entry is replaced by the cursor keys so runs replay exactly.
The Eracade workshop
Target scores
- 1200
- 2500
- 31,000
- 41,700
- 52,600
- 63,800
- 75,200
- 87,000
Each target is a step up. Beat them all and you have outplayed the workshop.
The Early Web era, 1997–2004
Beige towers, bevelled buttons and games that loaded one modem squeal at a time.
High scores
The top ten runs are saved in this browser with your three initials. Nothing is uploaded unless you submit a ranked run, so clearing site data clears the table.
