🪢 Word Links
🔤 Word · 1 playsWord Links
A handful of letters, a lattice of blanks, and every word they can jointly make.
About Word Links
A small set of letters is offered on a wheel, and a crossword lattice shows the lengths and crossings of every word those letters can form. Tracing through the letters spells a word, and each one found takes its place in the grid, its letters then anchoring the words that cross it. The early words come from habit; the last one or two require genuinely unpicking the letter set, testing uncommon openings and trusting the crossings already placed. A shuffle rearranges the wheel when the eye has gone stale, and a reveal will place a single letter at the cost of some pride.
How to Play
Drag through the letters on the wheel to spell a word, then release to submit it. Every answer slots into the lattice; letters already placed constrain what crosses them. Fill the whole lattice to advance — shuffle the wheel when you stop seeing new arrangements.
💡 Tips & Strategy
Empty the short slots first, but not by guessing at the grid — by working the letter set. Write the letters in your head as a pool and assemble every three-letter word the pool allows; the lattice will absorb most of them. Each placed word plants crossing letters, and from then on you are solving anagrams with anchors, which is a far easier game.
When a long slot resists, fix its skeleton: the crossing letters already placed, in their positions, and ask what consonant frame fits around them. English words are built on consonant scaffolding — think -GHT, -TION, ST-, -ND — and testing frames against the pool beats shuffling all the letters at random.
Use the shuffle the moment you stop generating candidates, and use it repeatedly. The eye reads a static wheel in the same loops every pass; a new arrangement mechanically produces new adjacencies, and the word you were missing is frequently the first thing you see after a shuffle. This is not superstition — fixation on an arrangement is a real perceptual effect, and the shuffle is its cure.
Save the reveal for the letter that unlocks most, which is almost never in the long word itself: it is the crossing letter shared by the long word and a stubborn short one. And when only one slot remains, count the unused letters against it — the answer must use exactly what the pool still owes, a constraint solvers forget and the puzzle never does.