Vexatile is a competitive word-tile game for 3–6 players. Each player builds their own crossword grid from a shared bag of tiles. Rounds progress with evolving rules until someone meets the active win condition.

1. Place tiles: Drag or click tiles from your rack onto your grid to form words. You must place at least one tile from your hand (unless your hand is already empty).
2. Play a card (optional): After placing tiles, you may play one card. Cards unlock after round 4.
3. End turn: Click End turn to pass to the next player.

• Tiles must form words of 2 or more letters, reading left-to-right or top-to-bottom (crossword style).
• All tiles must be connected: no isolated groups.
• Every word formed must be in the dictionary.
• You can freely rearrange tiles you placed in earlier turns: your whole grid is editable each turn.

• Drag and drop: drag a tile from your rack directly onto any grid cell. Drag a tile already on your grid to reposition it.
• Click to select: click a rack tile to select it (highlighted), then click an empty grid cell to place it. Click a placed tile to lift it back to the rack.
• Dropping one tile onto another swaps them.

Select any tile (rack or grid) and click Return tile (draw 3) to send it back to the bag and draw 3 new tiles as a penalty. This is useful when you have unplayable letters. Not available when the bag is empty.

When a player ends their turn with an empty hand (every tile on the grid), everyone immediately draws 1 tile from the bag. This is called a PEEL and is announced in the event log.

You draw a card at the end of each turn. Cards may be played after placing tiles (from round 4 onward). There are three types:

• Win Condition: Sets a new goal for the game. The player who played it wins if they’re the first to satisfy the condition when their next turn comes around. If nobody meets it, the condition is cancelled.
• Scoring: Changes how points are calculated for all players (shown in the header). Strategies include longest word, unique letters, vowel count, and more.
• Chaos: Disrupts opponents: steal a tile, skip their next turn, swap hands, remove a word from their grid, force them to draw extra tiles, and more.

Points are calculated at the end of each turn based on the active scoring rule shown in the header. The default rule counts the total number of letters on your grid. Custom scoring cards change this for everyone.

The active win condition is shown in the Win indicator in the game header. By default, the game ends when the bag runs out of tiles and the turn cycle completes: the player with the highest score wins. A played Win Condition card may change this to a different goal.

CPU opponents play automatically after a short delay. They use a greedy strategy to place the most tiles possible each turn, and may play Chaos or Win Condition cards if they think it benefits them.