Creating long words and using bonus tiles will result in a large amount of points. The amount of stars you can rank on each level (zero to three) is based on your point total. You will always earn one star for completing the level's objective.

Most levels have random tiles turning into bonus spots at the end, which will then explode for extra points for each letter destroyed.

Chain bonus letters into other bonus letters. Usually a bonus letter will form on the last letter of a word. If this letter remains surrounded by useful letters, keep re-forming the same bonus letter repeatedly. This is easily done with the letter "S".

After forming a word, also consider if you can suffix it with "S", "ING", "ED", and other letters, or prefix it with "PRE", "DE", "RE".