Glossary

The game's own words, as the game uses them.

Run: One game, from the first round until the Plays run out.
Round: Reach its target score to clear it. Targets rise every round.
Milestone: Every few rounds: a special round that also adds 2 tiles to the board.
Play: One submitted word. Plays are one pool for the whole Run; every cleared round adds 2.
Refresh: Swaps the whole board for new tiles, without using a Play.
Reroll: New level-up offers for rerolls. Offers rerolled away sit out the next 2 rerolls.
Banish: Keeps a perk or gift out of the offers for the rest of the Run.
Spot: A place in the submit bar. From the 6th spot on, each letter earns a bonus.
Slot: A place in a perk column: modifiers on the left, upgrades on the right.
Socket: The Buff workbench a perk is dropped into.
Modifier: A perk in the left column that works on every word until you sell it.
Upgrade: A perk in the right column with a number of uses.
Gift: A one-time level-up offer that changes your bag or fills slots.
Rarity: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic or Legendary; fixed for each perk.
Quality: Normal, Improved, Flawless, Marvelous or Perfect; higher is stronger.
Buff: Raising a perk's quality by one step, paid with OP.
OP: Overshoot points: how far past the target you cleared a round. Spend them on Buff before the next round; what's left is gone.
Joker: A tile that can be any single letter. Scores 0 points.
Special tile: A tile with an extra rule, like Golden or Emerald.
Gem modifier: Five Gem, Sixth Gem and Seventh Gold. Each turns a tile of the word into an Emerald or Golden tile, and the points it adds stay on that tile for the Run.
Unique tile: One of a kind Jokers with their own power, unlocked on the Balance.
Final Score: A word's score after every multiplier. A round adds them up.
Carry Over: Points added to a word's Final Score after its multipliers.
Balance: Your profile's skills, bought with Balance points from meta levels.
Meta level: Your profile's level, raised by XP from every Run.