What Happens at the End of a Three Letters Game, and How Do You Share Scores?

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When a Three Letters Game ends, the results screen shows your final score, the round you reached, and your best word score, ranked out of five bananas. It also lists emojis for the bonuses you earned in chronological order, and tells you if you set a new personal best. You can then share your score and answers from whatever device you played on, and because everyone gets the same "Today's Letters" for the first game each day, shared results can be compared directly.

What the End Screen Shows

The game-over screen is a summary of the run rather than just a number. According to the game's own instructions, it displays:

  • Your score — the total points accumulated across all rounds.
  • The round you reached — how far you got before running out of lives.
  • Your best word score — the highest-scoring single word you played.
  • A banana rating — these results are ranked out of five bananas, giving a quick sense of how strong the run was.
  • Bonus emojis in chronological order — each bonus you earned appears as an emoji, in the order you earned it, so the sequence reads as a timeline of your run.
  • A personal-best notice — if your score beats your previous best, the screen tells you so.

The banana ranking and emoji timeline are presentation touches; the underlying measures to judge a run by are score, round reached, and best word.

How Sharing Works

The instructions state that, whatever device you are using, there is a variety of ways to share your score and answers. The page evidence describes this as a share feature but does not enumerate the specific channels, so treat the exact list of share options as something you will see in the game itself rather than something fixed in advance.

Two things make shared results meaningful:

  1. Same daily letters. Everyone has "Today's Letters" for the first game each day, so two people comparing scores on the same day are working from identical starting letters. The game explicitly invites you to share and compare scores on this basis.
  2. Answers, not just scores. Because the share covers answers as well as the score, you can compare which words each player found from the same three letters.

If you play additional games after the first one on a given day, the shared daily comparison applies to that first game — the one played on Today's Letters.

Practical Tips for the End of a Run

  • Check the personal-best line first. It tells you whether the run is worth sharing as an improvement or just as a comparison.
  • Read the emoji sequence as a record. The chronological bonus emojis show where in the run your scoring peaked, which is useful if you want to work out which rounds you handled well.
  • Share promptly if you want a fair comparison. Since the daily letters are shared, comparing with others is most straightforward when everyone is playing the same day's first game.
  • Use the pause button with care. It only stops play at the end of the current round, so you must still submit a word or lose a life — pausing will not rescue a round you are stuck on.

A Quick Word on the Rest of the Game

The end screen makes more sense alongside the core rules: each round gives you three letters, and valid words must start with the first letter and contain the second letter before the third appears (so BDR allows BIDDERS but not BORDERING). Scoring and the dictionary follow Scrabble conventions, with letter values from 1 point (A, E, I, L, N, O, R, S, T, U) up to 10 points (Q, Z), bonus squares for letter and word multipliers, and a 50-point bonus for a 15-letter word. Blank tiles can stand for any letter but score nothing. You have three lives, and submitting a word requires pressing Enter/Return/Go.