Tilebo Español plays like Scrabble, with a few changes made to fit Spanish and to fit learners. If you already know Scrabble, skim the differences below and jump in. If you don't, this page covers everything you need.
Play nowThe board and tiles
- Smaller board. 11×11, not the usual 15×15 — games move faster and a small vocabulary still finds room to play.
- A Spanish tile set. Ñ gets its own tile, and there's no K or W tile at all (Spanish barely uses either outside loanwords). Traditional Spanish Scrabble also gives CH, LL, and RR their own combined tiles — this game doesn't. Every tile here is a single letter, so a word like "carro" or "calle" is spelled with two ordinary R's or L's, not one special tile.
- No accent tiles needed. Play E-S-T-A and it matches "está" just fine — you never need an á, é, í, ó, or ú tile to spell an accented word.
- Two blanks. A blank can stand in for any single letter, including Ñ. It scores 0 points, however it's used.
- Bonus squares. Double/triple letter and double/triple word squares work as in standard Scrabble — a bonus only counts the turn a tile first lands on it, so playing through a bonus square someone already covered doesn't trigger it again.
Taking your turn
- You move first, every game, against the AI opponent.
- Your first word must cross the center square. Unlike standard Scrabble, the center square carries no bonus of its own here — it's just where the game has to start.
- Every word after that must connect to a tile already on the board, in a single straight line with no gaps.
- Every word your move forms has to be real — not just the word you're going for, but any word your tiles incidentally form crossing another word too.
- Stuck? You don't have to play a word. Exchange some or all of your rack for new tiles from the bag, or pass — either one ends your turn without a penalty beyond losing that turn.
Learning tools
- Hint mode suggests real words your current rack can spell. Every suggestion is checked against the actual board first, so it's always playable somewhere — hint mode just doesn't tell you where. Finding the spot is still on you.
- Tap any word already on the board to see its English translation and an example sentence, whether you played it or the AI did.
How the game ends
- Someone empties their rack with no tiles left in the bag to refill it. That player adds the point value of whatever tiles the other side is still holding to their score; the other side subtracts their own leftover tiles.
- Or neither side can (or wants to) play anything — six passes/exchanges in a row, from either side in any combination, ends the game as a stalemate. Nobody gets a bonus; each side just subtracts the value of whatever's still in their own rack.