What people use it for
- Spelling and vocabulary A weekly list goes in as it comes home, and the sheet is ready before the class starts.
- Word jumble night Party rounds, baby showers and quiz nights get a numbered sheet and a key for the host.
- Warm ups Five words on the board at the start of a lesson, or a puzzle for the ones who finish early.
A scramble you can hand out
Type the words, press nothing, and the sheet is there. Each line is numbered, each word comes back with the same letters in a new order, and a clue typed after a colon prints in brackets next to it. The answer key on the right is numbered the same way, so marking is a straight read across the line.
That is the difference with a scramble made by hand. Nobody has to check whether a letter went missing or whether the letters are still the ones they started with, and nobody has to write the key out again.
What each level promises
| Level | What is guaranteed |
|---|---|
| Easy | The first letter stays where it was, so a child has a way in |
| Medium | No letter comes back in its own place, so the word cannot be read off |
| Hard | No letter in place, and no two letters that already sat together stay together |
Long words make better puzzles than short ones. A four letter word has few ways to go wrong, so the page leaves words of three letters or fewer exactly as typed, and counts the ones it could not scramble on the line under the key.
Where the scramble happens
In your browser, with nothing uploaded. The letters of each word are shuffled in place, and every press of Scramble again builds a different sheet from the same list, which is what a class of thirty needs when the first sheet has already been handed out. Phrases are scrambled word by word, so hot air balloon stays three words.
What it does not do
It does not print a PDF and it does not check a dictionary, so a scramble can land on another real word by chance. It also does not know your topic: the clues are yours, and the sheet is only as good as the list you paste into it.