Type a word built from today's roots and endings that doesn't already exist, then press Mint. You're judged on the spot — an existing word, a mis-built one, or one not from these pieces costs a life. Build it right: drop the root's -o before a vowel (necro + archy → necrarchy), keep it before a consonant (necro + phobia → necrophobia).
Coining words that don't exist yet
Greek and Latin combining-forms are the building blocks of English. tele- means “far,” necro- means “death,” -logy means “the study of,” -phile means “lover,” -mancy means “divination.” Snap two together and you have a word — and most of the possible combinations are words nobody has ever coined. Mint hands you a set of these pieces each day and challenges you to coin brand-new ones that aren't already in the dictionary.
There's a craft to building them correctly. English follows the classical-compound rule: keep the connecting -o- before a consonant (necro + phobia → necrophobia) but drop it before a vowel (necro + archy → necrarchy, never necroarchy — which is why it's monarchy, not monoarchy). Build it right and coin something genuinely new — a telemancy, a chronophobe — and half the fun is deciding afterwards what your invention ought to mean.
Every piece is a real historical root, cross-checked against Wiktionary; the game only judges whether your coinage is genuinely new. It's a small daily lesson in how the words we already have were built in the first place.