Cricket Word Master

What it is

The almanac is your collection of cricket’s own words. Each of its 509 cards is one Cricket Word, from DRIVE and YORKER to the names of legends and grounds, with a one-line fact about it. The cards sit in 17 sets, such as Strokeplay, Spin Bowling, Grounds of India and Great Moments.

How you collect cards

• Spell it on the board. Every game counts: the daily match, the levels and the topic packs. Spell a Cricket Word and its fact pops up; the first time, its card joins your almanac.
• Find the hidden ones. Every new board in the daily match and the levels hides three Cricket Words of four to seven letters along joined tiles. A topic pack hides words from its own topic instead.
• Read the locked cards. A locked card shows its rarity, one dot per letter and the start of its fact with the word blanked out, so you know what to look for.
• Open your daily chest. A chest can hold a card you do not have yet, and finishing a topic pack gives you a legendary card.

Cricket Words also score double runs, and each one adds 100 runs to your Cricket Words bonus when the innings ends.

Rarity

• Legendary: great moments tied to a ground and a year, like Lord’s, 1983.
• Epic: eight-letter words, and legends whose names have seven letters or more.
• Rare: seven-letter words and the other legends.
• Common: every other Cricket Word.

Sets and rewards

Finish a set to earn bonus coins (50, plus 10 for every card in the set, up to 400) and 200 XP. The top of the almanac shows the set you are closest to finishing. A Great Moments card links to the full story of its match when CricWords has one. The Easter eggs tab lists the hidden word patterns, such as a word that reads the same backwards, and how often you have found each.

Where your almanac is kept

Your cards are saved in this browser on this device, with the rest of your progress. There is no account to sign in to. To move your almanac to another phone, open Settings, choose Save a backup, then Restore a backup on the other device. Clearing this site’s data in your browser deletes the almanac.

How the game stays accurate

• Fair words. The board accepts a word only if it is in the game’s dictionary: about 14,600 words of three to eight letters from the public-domain ENABLE word list, kept to the 30,000 most-used English words, plus all 509 Cricket Words. Offensive words are left out.
• Checked cards. Every card’s fact was written for this game. When the card list is built, a script rejects any card whose fact does not contain its word, any word that appears twice and any word longer than eight letters, and the game’s tests check that every card sits in exactly one set.
• Fair clues. Clues for everyday words are sentences from public-domain cricket books, used only when they are short, use everyday English and have exactly one blank. A Cricket Word’s clue is its own fact.
• Credited art. Set artwork comes from Wikimedia Commons and is credited on each set.
• Spotted a mistake? Email cricwords.gaming@gmail.com so the card can be fixed.