A little guide to Miso’s Bookshop

Connect letters. Collect words.

Click, tap, or drag through touching tiles on the hexagonal board to spell a word of at least three letters. Each tile can be used once per word. A Qu tile contributes two letters. Collect your word to earn points and coins; the used tiles disappear, and the letters above fall into place.

Chase your best single word: your Best Word record remembers the word and its full score across both modes. Bigger word scores earn bigger celebrations, and a new personal best gets a golden reveal. Longer words and rare letters earn more points. Green, gold, sapphire, and diamond tiles multiply scores. A mystery bonus word offers extra points when you find it.

Choose your pace

Classic is a thoughtful game with no timer. Burning tiles advance after a word is collected. Use an ember in your word to clear it before it reaches the bottom. Bonus tiles slow the embers, while scrambling can bring new ones. Each round has three hint letters, and they never give away the mystery bonus word.

Cozy removes the embers. Take your time, scramble whenever you like, and ask for as many little hints as you need. You can also choose a missing dictionary entry to create a board containing that word.

Build your own little library

Begin with 250 words in your starter book. Every accepted word earns coins, and a first discovery earns extra. Spend those coins on books that each unlock up to 250 more collectible words. The full library has 32 story books, with titles including The Little Prince, Winnie-the-Pooh, Heidi, and Alice in Wonderland, plus subject books for gym and fitness, body anatomy, animals, trees and plants, food and drinks, weather and seasons, the kitchen, travel, music, school, family, the house, tech and computers, company and business, project planning, managing teams, the office, health and wellness, medical care, sports and games, hobbies and crafts, shopping, nature, science, history, art, geography, math, language, outer space, the ocean, transport, vehicles, magic, and fantasy: over 9,700 words in all.

Tap Focus on any book you own to study it. The bonus word on each board then comes from that book and earns 2–5× its points and coins.

Undiscovered words stay hidden: the dictionary shows only how many letters they have. Find a word to reveal it and move closer to completing each book. Previously found words stay saved, including words whose books you purchase later.

Take the bookshop with you

On an iPhone or iPad, open the game in Safari, tap Share, and choose Add to Home Screen. On Android, open it in Chrome and use Install or Add to Home screen. After the game says “Ready to play offline,” you can play without an internet connection.

Your browser saves your progress, coins, and books on this device. In Settings, download a backup to keep a copy or move progress to another browser or phone. Restore the backup there to bring your discoveries with you.

Music and little sounds

Enable audio with the speaker button, or set music and sound effects separately in Settings. A Sunny Shelf is an original 60-second looping tune with plucked melody, warm bass, soft chords, and brushed percussion. Letter taps, discoveries, hints, scrambles, book purchases, embers, and new word records each have their own sound. Music softens during big celebrations and pauses when you leave the tab. Your volume choices save on this device, and all audio works offline.

Keyboard and touch

Use your finger to tap or drag between letters on a phone. On a computer, use the mouse or press Tab to focus a tile, Space to select, arrows to move, Enter to collect, Backspace to undo, and Escape to clear your selection.