Get from the tee word to the pin word, changing one letter per stroke.
Every word along the way must be a real word.
Par is the fewest strokes possible, so matching par is a perfect hole.
Green letters are already in the right place for the pin.
Stuck? You can go back through earlier words (each is a stroke), or Undo.
Undo is free on single holes; in a round it's a mulligan: one per 9 holes.
Pick up shows the answer. In a round it scores par + 3.
A dogleg needs a detour: at least one stroke has to change a letter to one that isn't the pin's,
so you can't just swap letters straight towards the pin.
Tap any word on the board to see what it means.
Under the board: how many par routes the hole has, and its grade.
More routes means more ways to make par, so a hole is Easy, Medium or
Hard for its par.
Holes come in 9-hole courses. Use Play to play a 9 or 18, holes of one par, a random hole, or the hole map.
Courses get longer as you go. From Course 46, every nine has a par 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.
New here? You start on the Practice course: nine easy holes that don't count
towards your stats. Replay it any time from Play.
Tips
Work backwards: find the words one letter away from the pin, and aim for one of those.
Start with the end letters. Most par routes change the first or last letter first.
Moving a vowel takes three strokes, because words never have three vowels in a row: get down
to one vowel (SURE to SORT), put the new vowel beside it (SOOT), then drop the old one (SNOT). OO, EA and EE
make the best bridges.
One-vowel words like SORT or BAND are crossroads: add a magic E, double the vowel, or swap
an end letter.
On a dogleg, the detour is usually a consonant swap at the start or end, not a vowel.
Avoid words ending in Y (EASY, BODY) unless the pin does. Two consonants at the start
(CHIP, STOP) and rare letters (J, Q, V, X, Z) are hard to get out of too.
Plurals ending in S and magic-E words (CAKE, LINE) have the most moves: great stepping
stones.