Trace a word across the grid, its letters vanish, and everything above tumbles down to fill the gap.
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How to play
Cascade fuses a letter-grid word hunt with collapsing-block physics. Drag across touching tiles to spell a word of three or more letters; when you release a valid word, those tiles disappear and the columns above settle into the holes. The goal is to drain as many tiles as you can and clear the whole board.
Connect tiles that are next to each other horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
Words must be three letters or longer to count.
Longer and rarer words score more, so hunt for big chains.
Clearing the entire board earns a bonus; running out of playable words ends the run.
Controls
Desktop: click and drag the mouse across adjacent tiles to build a word, then release to submit. Drag back onto the previous tile to undo a letter.
Phone & tablet: touch and drag your finger across the tiles, then lift to submit, the same drag works on any touchscreen.
Game modes
Daily: one fixed board everyone shares, with a streak counter for consecutive days.
Practice: a fresh random board you can replay as often as you like.
Tips & strategy
Clear from the bottom up, removing low tiles drops new letters into reach and opens fresh words.
Save the rarer letters for when they sit beside vowels so you can build a high-scoring word instead of stranding them.
Stuck? The hint button briefly flashes a playable word to keep the cascade going.
Origins
Dragging across touching tiles to spell a word is the adjacent-letter hunt of Boggle, 1973.
The original addition is gravity, borrowed from the match-three puzzle: a valid word deletes its tiles and the columns above settle into the holes.
The goal that follows is not a word game's goal at all. Instead of scoring words you are trying to drain the board, so a long word in the wrong place is worse than a short one that collapses a column — which means the best play is frequently the one that reads worst.
About Cascade
Cascade reimagines the adjacent-letter word search by adding gravity: every word you spell collapses the grid, so the board is always changing under you. It is an original, free browser game built in-house for PlayPendium.
A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.
