# Boosts

Boosts are powerful, one-time-use, in-game items that can be used to help solve a word or award additional points. Boosts cannot be saved in-between games, but can only be earned per-match.

While boosts may be used to help solve a word, in many brackets, if they are instead **not** used, they provide a point bonus at the end of a match, when all rounds are completed.

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There are currently four types of boosts:

### **Encyclopedia**

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This boost will lookup and circle a letter that is in the word, that has not been guessed.

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### Knockout

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These boosts will destroy multiple letters that are **not** in the word, which narrows down the choices.

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### Slowmo

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This boost will temporarily slow down the Boost Meter to give you more time to make a guess.

### Health

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A health boost will increase a player's Health Bar, to give them a few more letters to choose.

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