Piñata

About The Game
In Piñata, players make words using candy letters.

Piñata is a turn-based game. Each player takes two turns and there is a time limit of 60 seconds for each turn. As players begin by hitting the piñata, they receive 4 letters and a score multiplier of x5. Each additional time the player hits the piñata, they receive 3 more letters, but their score multiplier is reduced by one, as follows. The maximum word length that can be submitted is, in theory, 16 letters.

Scoring
The word score is calculated from the sum of its letter values multipled by a score multiplier. The score multiplier begins at x5 and is reduced to x4, x3, x2 and x1 each time the piñata is hit.

Tips
If it is possible to make a four-letter word from your first four letters, this is usually a solid play. Take this word unless you know the score to beat on the second turn.

The highest-scoring words are usually found with x4 multipliers, but long words (especially words ending "-ing") can achieve good scores with x3.

If you can't make a good word at x3, it won't get any better at x2.