Wordgrid

Wordgrid challenges you to fill in a letter grid such that every row and every column spells a valid English word.

Today's puzzle

Wordgrid is still in development, so the puzzle is not yet interactive. Grab a pencil and paper!

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How to play

Each grid has the first word filled in to start; your goal is to fill in the rest of the grid so every row and every column spells a valid English word. For instance, consider this puzzle:

G R I D
R - - -
I - - -
D - - -

You could solve it with the words race, icon, and dent, like this:

G R I D
R A C E
I C O N
D E N T

Notice that the words grid, race, icon, and dent are spelled out in both rows and columns. Every solution will have this property.

Also, most puzzles have more than one solution! The grid puzzle, for instance, has 61 possible solutions within the current word list. Any set of words that satisfies the rule -- that every row and every column is a valid English word -- is considered a win.

Development notes

My wife and I have been playing various word games together for a while, so I was thinking a lot about that design space. The initial idea for Wordgrid showed up in the shower one day. I wrote a solver in Javascript to explore the game's possibility space, and that produced the data set that now drives Wordgrid's daily puzzles.

Changes

February 10, 2024:

• Added puzzle difficulty rating

February 7, 2024:

• Expanded the word list from only 4-letter words to also include 5-letter and 6-letter words

January 14, 2024:

• First published version: daily rotating puzzles, non-interactive

December 18, 2023:

• Initial prototype