Help > Handy tools
You can rearrange the letters you have played by dragging them to the left or right. You can also get your letters shuffled by pressing the Shuffle button under the "X". If no letters have been played when you press Shuffle, all nine letters will be put on the rack in a random order. You can shuffle the letters as many times as you like.
If you want to play a word very similar to one already played (for instance by adding "ED" to the end), you can get the word back on to the rack very easily. One way is to drag the word from the word list: keeping the mouse button down, move the word up towards the rack, and its letters will soon appear there. If you prefer, you can use the arrow buttons near the bottom left hand corner of the board. The left-pointing arrow takes you back through the words you have played so far, in reverse order and the right-pointing arrow takes you forward through those words.
You can also play using the keyboard: type a letter to add that letter to your word, and press Enter when the word is complete. If you make a mistake, the backspace key returns the last letter played and the keyboard left arrow returns all the letters.
To shuffle the letters, use the "0" (zero) key. To bring back words previously played, the comma key "," takes you back through the words and the full stop, or period key "." takes you forward through the words. (You can remember these because the same keys are used for "<" and ">", but you don't need to use the Shift key in Chihuahua.)
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