Tile & Trouble

A crossword-tile word game for Discord, played at your own pace in a thread. Your tiles are potion bottles, your points are potency, and the board is a cauldron.

The Trouble part

The bot doesn't check your words. Play anything — a real word, a maybe, or pure gibberish. It counts unless someone hits the red Challenge button before the next turn.

• Word isn't in the grimoire? It curdles — the play is undone and the brewer loses the potency.
• Word is real? The accuser gets a lungful of fumes and loses a turn for doubting you.

Fake words nobody catches stay on the board and score. Then, when the game ends, the Trouble Report exposes every single one of them. The leaderboard tracks wins — and also who's the biggest Troublemaker and the best Inquisitor.

How it plays

/newgame opens a game thread. 2–4 players join with a button, or get invited by @mention.

Take your turn whenever. No clock, no timer, no pressure. The bot pings whoever's up next and nudges games that go quiet.

Tap Play a word and you get a private preview of exactly where your tiles land and what you'd score — before anything counts. Blanks fill in automatically for letters you don't have.

Tap My shelf to see your potions, Shuffle to rearrange them, Swap to pour some back.

The grimoire

Words are checked against the current tournament lists — NWL2023 and Collins CSW21 — plus ENABLE. About 285,000 words. US, UK and Canadian spellings all count: colour and color, theatre and theater, favourite and favorite. So do the two-letter words (/twoletters is the full cheat sheet) and the strange ones like ZOEAE and QI.

If it's playable in a Scrabble tournament anywhere on earth, it's playable here. Server admins can add their own house words with /houseword add.

Also

• Practice mode to learn solo — an option on /newgame
• Handicaps — the ringer in your group can play at 75%
• Rematch button when a game ends: same players, new thread, one tap
• Per-server leaderboard, lifetime stats with /profile, idle-game reminders
• /help lists every command · /rules explains the game · /feedback reaches the developer directly
• Only needs thread and message permissions. No message-content access.
• Slurs can't be played at all. Admins can block more words with /houseword ban.