word-grove

Word Grove is an original two-player word-tile board game about growing letter paths through a compact woodland board. Players tap rack tiles, place them on the 3D grove, and commit a synced turn when the word is connected and ready to score.

What you can do

• Claim a seat: Join as Moss or Amber with visible player names, avatars, scores, and turn status.
• Place tiles directly: Tap a rack tile, then tap board beds to draft a single row or column word.
• Mobile-first board: The 5x5 grove keeps direct board and rack targets large in 300x500 and 350x509 Poe feed frames.
• Score grove bonuses: The center grove, sun beds, and root beds change word scoring without copying any protected board layout.
• Recall or commit: Pull draft tiles back to the rack, or commit them to advance the synced turn.
• Run the drill: The deterministic opening rack supports repeatable tests and screenshots.

Framework Choice

Word Grove uses synced-store for authoritative game state because turn order, racks, board tiles, scores, and draft placements must sync through Poe across players. The main board is rendered with Three.js for a tactile board-dominant 3D surface, with an HTML tap grid layered above it for reliable mobile targets.

No external board-game engine is used. Poe state and sync are the central concerns, and the rules are compact enough to keep validation in a small deterministic rules module.