Lifelines can give you a leg up when trying to solve some of the trickier words your opponents play. For example, if you know the word ending but there are a multitude of words or starting letters that apply, you can use "Suspects" to quickly narrow down the selection and display four letters, one of which is in the word. Make sure to keep a mental note of the letters in case you guess wrong. Generally, it's a good idea to be stingy with your lifelines and only use them when your opponent has a big lead over you or if you're down to your last balloon. To build up good supply of lifelines, make sure to leverage score modifiers when constructing your own words whenever you can. Tryto start off by placing the highest-value letter on a DL or TL field and work from there. And if you're short of a TW or DL field, think about how you can extend the word, by making it plural, past tense, converting it to a noun, or similar.