Summary of Help

Word Weaver is a board game where the players place word tiles on a playing board to create sentences.  Sentences run either horizontally or vertically.

To start a new game, choose '1Player' or '2Player' from the 'Play!' menu.

The current player's name and score are highlighted (on a yellow background).

Place tiles, one at a time on the board.  Two players must alternate turns, clicking on the DONE button at the end of each turn.  The first tile may be placed anywhere.  Subsequent tiles must be placed next to another tile.

To make a sentence, select the 'Start of Sentence' menu item from the 'Sentence' menu.  Click the new cursor on the first word in the sentence.  Then select either 'Period' or 'Question' from the 'Sentence' menu and click the new cursor on the last word in the sentence.  These two steps may be done in either order and at any time.  You may 'start' and/or 'end' any number of sentences during a single turn.

You may not 'start' a sentence on a word tile if there is a word to the left of it or above it.  Correspondingly, you may not 'end' a sentence on a word tile if there is a word to the right of it or below it.

A new tile may not be placed to the left or above the first word in any sentence, or to the right or below the last word in any sentence.

A long sentence adds many more points to a score than does a short sentence.

If you are stuck, you can either create a new word or generate a new set of tiles (see Tiles menu).  The number of points deducted from your score depends on the level of difficulty.

You can 'Oops' the last move made.

The game is over when: 1) there are 72 tiles on the board,  2) you select the 'GameOver' menu or, 3)  you select the 'Quit' menu

Use the 'Help' menu item under the 'Help' menu if you need more help.  It provides many more details than are provided here in the summary.  When you are using this more detailed form of help, click on the Search button to search for a specific topic, or, in general, click on either of the Browse buttons: '<<' or '>>' and browse through the help.