This article contains everything you need to know about Arkadium’s Smartle Game.
Use the list below to navigate specific topics about Smartle.
How to play
Smartle is a fun game about letter-swapping. You solve word puzzles by swapping letters to make five different full words using the available letters. You drag and drop each letter to the correct position in order to create a full word.
To finish the puzzle, you need to make sure that all letters are used. Once you've solved all available words with only the available letters, you've solved the puzzle.
The game has two modes to choose from:
- Smartle Daily Word Puzzle Mode - This mode provides you with a brand new puzzle to solve each day, for a fun daily challenge.
- Smartle Sprint Mode - This mode provides you with a skill-based challenge, where you have 10 minutes to solve 5 puzzles in a sprint. You can choose to take breaks between these minutes if you like.
These modes can be chosen from the top part of the Smartle puzzle. Select the arrow on the sides to change from one mode to the other. The entire puzzle will take either the green or yellow color to show which mode you're playing.
NOTE: The first time you play through the game, you'll see a handy guide that tells you all about it. You can click on Tutorial for a quick explainer of how the game works, or Modes to know more about the game's modes.
This is how the Smartle play area looks like:
- Menu. This menu will let you turn on Dark Mode for an easier viewing experience, and it will let you turn the Sound of the game on and off.
- Timer. This will let you know how much time has passed since you've started the puzzle in Daily Mode. In Sprint Mode it will let you know how much time you still have to complete the puzzles. A shorter time will contribute to a better score.
- Swap Count. This will let you know how many letter swaps you've done since you've started the puzzle. The smaller the number of swaps, the better your score will be.
- Play Streak. This lets you know how many puzzles you've completed in a row.
- Advice. Do you feel stuck? Using Advice will automatically solve one of the words. You can use it up to 3 times. Using this will affect your score.
- Found Words Archive. This will let you know which words you've found so far, as well as their definitions.
- Leaderboard. This will let you see the Smartle leaderboard, which you can view by time, swaps and streak.
- Personal Records. All of your personal Smartle statistics will be located here.
- How to play. This will let you see the introductory guide once more.
Scoring
This is how the score in Smartle is calculated:
Total Score = Daily Score + Sprint Score + Streak Score
Daily Score = Daily Time Score + Daily Swap Score + 1000 + [1500 if no hints used]
Daily Time Score = 100000 / time in seconds that took to solve Daily Puzzle
Daily Swap Score = 40000 / number of letter swaps that took to solve Daily Puzzle
Sprint Score = Sprint Time Score + Sprint swap score + 2000 + [2500 if no hints used for at least 1 completed sprint this day]
Sprint Time Score = 500000 / time in seconds that took to solve Sprint
Sprint swap score = 200000 / number of letter swaps that took to solve Sprint
Streak Score = 100 * log(streak + 1) + streak
If a player has played several Sprints in the day, then the best values will be taken to calculate their score.