How to play Alpha Betty Saga
Alpha Betty Saga is the latest game from King, the makers of Candy Crush Saga, Farm Heroes Saga and many more "Saga" games.
Alpha Betty Saga is being soft launched in a few countries at the moment, but will be launched worldwide very soon!
Alpha Betty Saga is being soft launched in a few countries at the moment, but will be launched worldwide very soon!
This is a world away from the match three games we are used to seeing from King.
Alpha Betty Saga is a word game very similar to Words of Wonder and the board game Scrabble.
To make your words you just put the mouse on the first letter of the word you want to make, hold down the left mouse button and drag the mouse over the letters you want to use. If you make a legitimate word the letters will turn green and the word will be spelled out in the space at the top of the board.
Once you have finished making your word simply release the mouse button and the letters will be removed from the board and replaced with new letters.
As you can see from the image above, you can use any adjacent letter to make your words, either up and down or diagonal, as long as they are next to each other. You can only use each letter once.
You will get points for each word you make and the longer the word, the more points are awarded.
Words including a gold letter will get double points for the word. Words using a silver letter will get double points for the silver letter.
Words including a gold letter will get double points for the word. Words using a silver letter will get double points for the silver letter.
You also get extra boosters for longer words, which will help you in later levels.
If you make a four letter word in Alpha Betty Saga you will get a small crown, which will be placed randomly on the board. The crown has different uses in different levels, which I will explain as I go through this page.
If you make a five letter word in Alpha Betty Saga you will get a blue tile with two arrows, see the image.
The arrows mean that when you match the blue tile a whole row or column of letters will be removed and replaced by new ones.
The direction of the line blast will depend on the direction your mouse was moving when you completed the five letter word. The arrows can also be diagonal if your word ended with a diagonal move.
If you make a six letter word you will get arrows going in four directions, either top and bottom and side to side, or the four diagonal corners if the word ended on a diagonal.
If you make a seven letter word you will get the arrows pointing in eight directions! all four diagonal corners plus all four sides, so when you match the blue tile it will blast away tiles in every direction, clearing lots of letters and giving lots of points.
Top left of the board you will find the shuffle booster, which allows you to shuffle the board if you can't find any good words.
The shuffle booster starts every level empty. but fills up as you make your words, once it is full you can use it by clicking on it and it will mix up the letters, hopefully giving you more words. Once you have used the shuffle booster it will begin to fill again.
As you move through the levels you will encounter different obstacles to overcome as well as simply getting points from the words you make.
From level 6 you may find cheese levels, where you need to get pieces of cheese down the board and off the bottom.
You do this by making words under the cheese until it has fallen down to the bottom.
You can also use the line boosters, by making longer words ending in the column that the cheese needs to fall down and matching them, you can get the cheese down in one move.
Making words including a letter which has a crown on it will remove a letter from under the cheese.
Top left of the board you will find the shuffle booster, which allows you to shuffle the board if you can't find any good words.
The shuffle booster starts every level empty. but fills up as you make your words, once it is full you can use it by clicking on it and it will mix up the letters, hopefully giving you more words. Once you have used the shuffle booster it will begin to fill again.
From level 6 you may find cheese levels, where you need to get pieces of cheese down the board and off the bottom.
You do this by making words under the cheese until it has fallen down to the bottom.
You can also use the line boosters, by making longer words ending in the column that the cheese needs to fall down and matching them, you can get the cheese down in one move.
Making words including a letter which has a crown on it will remove a letter from under the cheese.
From level 11 in Alpha Betty Saga you will begin to encounter bubbles.
Bubbles are burst and cleared by making words using the letters inside the bubbles.
Crowns will knock out a bubble, as will the line blasters.
Some bubbles are double and need to be matched twice to remove them completely.
You will also encounter vines on some of the letters as the levels of Alpha Betty Saga get harder, if a letter has a vine on it you will have to match it once to remove the vine, then a second time to remove the letter. Vines can be on any level, either cheese, bubbles or word making.
If you make a word using a letter with a vine, the letter with the vine will not count. Only when the word turns green will it count.
Alpha Betty Saga MOUSETRAPS,
which appear later in the game, move around the board semi-randomly after every move.
The mousetraps can be very annoying as they cover letters and prevent you from using those letters until the mousetrap has moved on to another letter.
The mousetraps very often seem to know where you are planning to move next and block the best moves, so they really need to be destroyed as soon as possible in the game.
However don't waste too many moves just trying to remove them, try to work out ways of removing them while making the best words you can.
How to remove mousetraps in Alpha Betty Saga.
There are a couple of ways to get rid of the mousetraps, one way is to hit them with the blast from a blue tile, if you make a blue tile with the arrow in line with a mousetrap and then match that tile in a word, the blast will knock the mousetrap off the board. With a bit of planning you may be able to hit 2 or 3 mousetraps with the same word.
The second way to get rid of the mousetraps is less reliable, the crowns may knock them off the board, but this is pretty random so can't be relied on.
If you enjoy word games and like the sound of Alpha Betty Saga click on the image below to play.
Bubbles are burst and cleared by making words using the letters inside the bubbles.
Crowns will knock out a bubble, as will the line blasters.
Some bubbles are double and need to be matched twice to remove them completely.
You will also encounter vines on some of the letters as the levels of Alpha Betty Saga get harder, if a letter has a vine on it you will have to match it once to remove the vine, then a second time to remove the letter. Vines can be on any level, either cheese, bubbles or word making.
If you make a word using a letter with a vine, the letter with the vine will not count. Only when the word turns green will it count.
Alpha Betty Saga MOUSETRAPS,
which appear later in the game, move around the board semi-randomly after every move.
The mousetraps can be very annoying as they cover letters and prevent you from using those letters until the mousetrap has moved on to another letter.
The mousetraps very often seem to know where you are planning to move next and block the best moves, so they really need to be destroyed as soon as possible in the game.
However don't waste too many moves just trying to remove them, try to work out ways of removing them while making the best words you can.
How to remove mousetraps in Alpha Betty Saga.
There are a couple of ways to get rid of the mousetraps, one way is to hit them with the blast from a blue tile, if you make a blue tile with the arrow in line with a mousetrap and then match that tile in a word, the blast will knock the mousetrap off the board. With a bit of planning you may be able to hit 2 or 3 mousetraps with the same word.
The second way to get rid of the mousetraps is less reliable, the crowns may knock them off the board, but this is pretty random so can't be relied on.
If you enjoy word games and like the sound of Alpha Betty Saga click on the image below to play.