Playing WyldTyle With Friends

WyldTyle multiplayer puts two to four players on their own boards, playing the same nineteen turns, with the highest total winning. There is no blocking and no shared board; the competition is about who makes more of the same opportunity. This guide covers how a match works and what changes when you are playing to beat someone rather than to beat your own best.

Starting a match

Multiplayer needs a free account, because invitations and turn notifications have to go somewhere. Once signed in:

1. Open Multiplayer from the menu and choose the friends you want to play, up to three of them. You add friends from their profile or from the Friends page.
2. Each invited player gets a notification and sees the invite on their home page. They accept or decline.
3. The match starts once everyone has answered. Everyone who accepted plays their own board, in turn order; if nobody accepts within three days, the match is called off.

How turns flow

Players take turns in sequence. On your turn you choose a roll type, place your two letters on your own board, and confirm. Then the next player does the same. After nineteen rounds, each player takes their Last Call, and the match scores. You will get a notification when it is your turn and when the match finishes, so a game can stretch comfortably over a day or two of ordinary life.

A turn does have a limit: three days. If the match has been waiting on someone for a few hours, anyone else can send them a reminder from the match page, once a day. After two days the player on the clock gets a warning, and after three they forfeit and drop out; in a two-player match that hands the win to the other player, and with more players the rest carry on. A Last Call left untouched for three days isn't a forfeit: the board is simply scored as it stands. You can also leave a match yourself from the bottom of its page.

You can see the other players' boards as the game goes on, along with their running scores. You cannot affect them. Your dice are your own, and so are theirs.

What changes strategically

Solo WyldTyle is you against the dice. Multiplayer adds a comparison, and the comparison changes a few things:

• The Wyld Pyle bonus matters even more. Twenty points is often the whole margin between first and second place. A player who completes all eight words with modest letters will beat a player with two flashy words and one invalid slot nearly every time.
• Watch the boards, not the scores. A running score at turn ten means little because most words are incomplete and scoring zero. The information is in the shape of the other boards: how many slots are at risk, how many vowels they are carrying, whether they have a wild in hand.
• Later Last Calls have more information. If other players have already locked in their final boards when your Last Call comes round, you know exactly what you need. If you are behind by 6 with a valid board, you need an upgrade and should call two consonants for the rare letters. If you are ahead, roll anyway: you only place what helps.
• Variance is your friend when behind. Trailing with a few turns left, a two-consonant call that might produce a K is better than a safe consonant-and-vowel. Leading, play it the other way.

Rematches and history

When a match ends, any player can propose a rematch with the same group, and the new invite goes out immediately. Finished matches stay in your history with every board and score, so you can go back and see exactly where a game turned.

Notifications

You can turn on browser or phone notifications for your turn, for a friend's reminder, for turn-timer warnings, for a finished match, for accepted friend requests, and for someone beating your high score. Each type is optional, and the settings live on your profile. If you would rather check in on your own schedule, leave them off; the home page shows every pending invite and every match waiting on you.