The letters are shuffled — put them back. Sixty seconds, as many words as you can.
A word is broken apart and its letters are laid out in the wrong order. Tap the tiles one at a time to spell it back out in the slots above; tap a letter already in a slot to send it back down.
The answer is checked the moment the last slot is filled. Get it right and the next word appears immediately. Get it wrong and the slots shake and clear — nothing is deducted, so try freely.
If the same letters make more than one word, all of them count. Hand back LISTEN when the word was SILENT and it is still correct.
Words start short and grow longer as your total climbs. The clock runs sixty seconds from your first tap, and your score is the number of words solved.
Look for the shape of the ending first. In English a stray G, N and I almost always belong together as -ING, and a lone Y at the end of a six-letter jumble is nearly always the last letter. Pinning the tail of a word down leaves only a short front half to arrange, which is a far smaller problem than the whole thing.
Pull the awkward consonants together. Q wants a U beside it, and pairs like TH, CH, SH and PL only ever sit one way round. Every pair you fix removes two tiles from the pool you are still juggling, and the remaining letters usually fall into place on their own.
Say the vowels out loud in your head. Most four and five letter words in this list have one or two vowels, and their positions are heavily constrained — a single vowel is almost never at either end. Placing it in the middle first turns a scramble of five unknowns into two tiny groups.
When a word will not come, dump it and rebuild. Emptying the slots costs nothing but the half second it takes, and staring at a half-formed wrong guess is the single biggest time sink in the whole minute. A fresh look at the tiles is worth more than another rearrangement of the same wrong idea.