Collocation Territory

Learn the word pairs English speakers use every day by fighting for a board. Make a decision. Take a break. Pay attention. Each card holds the second half of a phrase. Put it on the verb it belongs with, and the tile is yours. HOW IT PLAYS • Pick a card from your hand and place it on the verb it goes with • A right answer claims the tile • After a wrong answer the card goes back to your hand and the turn passes • A right answer can also steal a tile from the CPU • Capture a star tile and the tiles above, below and beside it come with it • Wild cards on the 4 × 4 and 5 × 5 boards can go on any verb • The match ends when the board is full or nobody can move. Most tiles wins • With nothing to place, pass and draw a new hand A BOARD YOU CAN FEEL • Tiles lift, turn over and land, and a bonus ripples out across its neighbors • Tap to place a card, or carry it to the tile with your finger • On iPhone, every capture lands with a haptic thud (you can turn this off) • Follows the Reduce Motion setting THREE ROBOT RIVALS • Easy makes plenty of mistakes • Normal always answers correctly and goes for open and bonus tiles • Hard goes after your tiles first and fights for the center Win or lose, their faces show it. LEARN FROM EVERY MISS • After a wrong answer, see the right phrase and its meaning at once (you can turn this off) • After each match, go over the phrases you used and the ones worth another look • Search all 150 phrases by verb or meaning, or show only the ones you missed • See your latest right and wrong answers for each phrase, and hear it spoken YOUR RECORDS • A conquest map of all nine combinations of board size and CPU level • Win rate, recent games and how many phrases you have used • 15 verbs, from make, take, have, do and get to give, put, keep, come, go, pay, run, break, hold and catch MADE FOR EVERY SCREEN • iPhone and iPad, portrait and landscape • Dark Mode and larger text sizes YOUR PRIVACY No account and no internet connection needed. Your records and answers stay on this device.