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Life & fun · June 10, 2016

Wordcrex

The first fair word game challenge

Wordcrex launched on June 10, 2016 with 66 votes, #888 of 4,333 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

What it does

Put your words into action!

The fair word game. Available on iOS and Android for mobile and tablet. WordCrex is the challenging, fair and very popular Scrabble variant! Each turn you get seven letters. Your challenge is to form words and score as many points as possible. The exciting thing is that your opponent has the same seven letters and also tries to score as many points as possible. Can you beat your opponent with the same letters? Play WordCrex with up to four friends or choose random opponents, pick your favourite color for your game board or tiles in our WordCrex shop and take up the fair word game challenge in one of our 20+from wordcrex.com

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