To boost your score, stars periodically appear on screen and grabbing those will give you a speed boost and increase the points value of any gems collected until it wears off. (writingsofmassdeduction.com)
You can increase your points by landing on designated spaces for double or triple word or letter scores. (thespruce.com)
Improving the squad will improve our chances, but realistically all we can do is keep increasing our points total and hope it coincides with other teams failing to do the same. (sbnation.com)