Oozezi Words

Take part. Earn words. Spend them on Oozezi.

Words are Oozezi's own currency. You earn them every time you take part, they're kept under your email address with nothing to save or remember, and you can spend them anywhere on the site that takes words. 1 word = ₦1.

Check your words

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To see where they came from, and spend them on this phone or computer, confirm it's you. We'll email you a 6-digit code; you only need it once here.

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    Buy words

    Short of words? Confirm your email above, and you can buy more here.

    Bought words are spent like earned ones. They can't be swapped back for cash, and paying never improves your chances in a competition.

    Give words

    Send words to anyone, by email, with a note. They're kept under that email to spend anywhere on Oozezi, and they can't be swapped for cash.

    Pay with

    Confirm your email above to give from your own words.

    How to earn

    • A submission300 words

      Any piece you send in (poems, prose, FWF chapters, PoetryMine, The Stage, collections), once our editors take it into review.

    • A challenge entry300 words

      Entering an Oozezi challenge, once your entry is taken into review.

    • The Whisper Line: each word you share100 words

      Find a hidden word and share it with everyone.

    • The Whisper Line: completing a line200 words

      On top of the word, when your share fills the last blank.

    • The Manuscript Mystery: each phase you crack500 words

      Be the first to solve one of the mystery's clues.

    • The Manuscript Mystery: the final clue1,000 words

      On top of the phase, when you crack the last one.

    • The Last Word: every debater1,000 words

      Once you're in the tournament.

    • The Last Word: the champion5,000 words

      For winning the Final.

    Where to spend them

    • Looking…

    How it works

    • Words for submissions, challenge entries and The Last Word go to the email you used. We email you each time you earn some.
    • On The Whisper Line and The Manuscript Mystery, add your email above the game and everything you earn goes straight to you. If you'd rather just play, words collect in your browser and you can add your email later to keep them.
    • Spend words anywhere on Oozezi that shows a price in words, like a paid challenge's entry fee: use the same email and choose Use my words. The first time on a phone or computer, we email you a 6-digit code to confirm it's you; after that it remembers you. Whatever's left stays yours, and if what you paid for can't go through, the words go straight back.
    • Short of words? Once your email is confirmed here, you can buy more under Buy words. You pay by bank transfer or from your bank app through Flutterwave, and the words are yours as soon as Flutterwave confirms it.
    • Words are spent on Oozezi; they can't be swapped for cash.