4 boards solved strictly in order — guesses carry forward
Four words, solved strictly left to right. Only the active board shows its colors; the upcoming boards are masked until it is their turn. Here is the twist that defines the mode: every guess you have ever made is applied to each new board the moment it unlocks — board four has silently absorbed all of your previous rows.
You have ten guesses for the whole chain. The keyboard colors track only the active board, so your eliminations reset visually with each unlock even though the guess history carries over.
Win base 1,000, one point per second under the eight-minute cap, 50 points per solved board. The recorded guess count is the total rows the run consumed — board one solved in row six and board four solved in row ten records as a ten-guess game.
Losses keep partial completion credit, so pushing deep into the chain always beats stalling on an early board.
Because boards two through four inherit every prior guess, broad coverage words early in the run pay four times. A wasted narrow guess on board one is also a wasted row on the three boards that haven’t appeared yet.
The budget math: ten rows, four boards. If board one eats five rows you are nearly drawing dead. Treat the first board as a speed round — coverage opener, second opener, solve. Three rows for board one is the pace that wins.
When a new board unlocks, its grid already shows colored feedback from all your previous guesses. Pause and actually read it before typing — players in a rhythm often re-guess letters the inherited rows already marked dead.
By board four, your usable letters are constrained by everything you have played. Avoid burning all the common-letter words early; keep one or two versatile candidates (mixed vowels, no repeats) in reserve for the final board’s endgame.
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