Word Puzzle Matrix

1. Find the word shown at the top somewhere in the scrolling letters. Drag across its letters to claim it.
2. 10 seconds per word. The target always passes through within a few seconds.
3. Wrong swipe or timeout: +1 stream. More streams, more noise.
4. Every find removes a stream (minimum 1). Streams are your health bar.
5. A miss at 6 streams fails the round. Retry free, or spend 20 banked seconds to continue.
6. 10 words clears a round and banks +10s, plus 5s more for a round with no misses.
7. Gold bonus words sometimes appear under the target. Find one in the streams within 6 seconds to earn a collectible sticker. Chasing it costs clock time, but swiping it never counts as a miss.
8. Clear a level to earn a Lock-In Round. Two halves of a row tick toward a center seam, one letter at a time. The words to find are listed up top, and each one forms briefly where the halves meet. Swipe any word that crosses the seam before the next tick to lock it in for bonus seconds. Lock in 5 or more for a sticker.
9. Earn a Pop Round with a perfect round (no misses). For 30 seconds, letters rise on poles from a digital floor and sink again. Tap letters to build any real word: a letter you tap locks in place until you bank or clear it. The round runs in three stages that get faster and ask for longer words: 3+ letters, then 4+, then 5+. Longer words bank far more time: 3 letters +1s, 5 letters +4s, 7 letters +10s. Bank 5 or more words for a sticker.
10. Daily Challenge: everyone gets the same 10 words each day, in the same order. Faster finds score more, misses cost points, and bought time is switched off. Share your result card to compare with friends.
11. Mystery Round: every word you find is a clue to one hidden answer, and the blanks show its length. The answer scrolls through the streams unmarked. Swipe it as soon as you know it: solving after 1 clue is worth 900 points, and each extra clue costs 100. A wrong guess is a miss, like any other.
12. Make a Matrix: type a short message and get a private link. Whoever opens it finds your words one at a time, and the full message is revealed when they finish. Mix the word order to keep it a surprise: the words arrive scrambled and drop into their places. Custom puzzles are played at an easy setting and never count toward levels, rankings or albums.
13. ♪ Sound words make their own noise when you find them: THUNDER rumbles, FROG ribbits, ROCKET lifts off, KETTLE whistles. The target shows ♪ when it's a sound word, and a visual burst plays too, so muted players still get the moment. Bonus stickers and Lock-In words can have sounds as well.
14. Gold streams are rare. One stream turns gold and asks for a twist: the word runs backwards, the clue is scrambled, letters are missing from the clue, or it's a Mirage: the stream fills with near-identical misspellings of a classic trap word (WIERD, RECIEVE, SEPERATE) and only one copy is spelled right. Swiping a misspelling costs 2 seconds of the gold window, never a miss. Find it in the gold stream within 9 seconds for a mystery reward. Your word clock pauses while it's gold, so chasing it costs nothing. Rewards are in-game only, with odds shown: +50 seconds (55%), a rare sticker (30%), an ultra-rare sticker (12%), or a +150 second jackpot (3%).
15. Stickers fill themed albums in three rarities. A duplicate converts to +3s. If 4 bonus finds in a row are common, the next one is guaranteed rare or better. A finished album banks +30s.

Prototype scope: 3 levels of 3 rounds each (the full model is 100 levels of 10 rounds). Levels 2 and 3 start every round with two streams flowing opposite ways; level 3 adds decoy spellings and a vertical column on the right, read top to bottom. Ads, friend gifts and purchases are simulated. Stickers are earned by play only, never sold in random packs, and are saved in this browser only.

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