How to solve Wend
Find the hidden words winding through the grid.
Wend hides words that snake through a letter grid — the word-tracing format LinkedIn's daily game made popular. Here you can play it endlessly and for free: every board is generated on demand and always solvable, with grids from 4×4 to 6×6.
How to play Wend
- Find one hidden word of each listed length.
- Words snake up, down, left and right — never diagonally.
- Every open tile is used by exactly one word; dark tiles are walls.
- Drag across letters to trace a word; tap a found word to remove it.
- The hidden words are common English words. Only the grid's hidden words are accepted: any other word flashes red.
How to solve Wend: techniques that work
Wend hides words that snake orthogonally through the grid, and together the words cover every open cell exactly once — the board is a partition, and that's your main weapon. Don't hunt words in isolation; ask which cells each candidate word would consume and whether the leftovers can still form the other lengths on the list.
Start at the corners and along walls. A corner letter has at most two neighbours, so few words can pass through it — corner cells are almost always the first or last letter of a word. The length list at the top tells you exactly how many words of each size to find, which narrows candidates fast.
When you spot a word, trace its path mentally before committing: the same letters can often be read along two different snaking routes, and only one keeps the rest of the board coverable. If a trace leaves an isolated letter pocket, it was the wrong route even if the word was right.
Common mistakes
Tracing a real English word that isn't one of the hidden ones — the board only accepts the intended words, because any other split would make full coverage impossible. A red flash means wrong word or wrong route, not a broken board.
Reading diagonally. Words only move up, down, left and right; a diagonal step is never legal, even when it spells something tempting.
From easy to hard
Larger grids hide longer, more winding words, and dark wall tiles carve the board into odd shapes. Treat walls as allies: they cut the number of routes a long word can take, often down to one.
FAQ
- Is Wend free and unlimited on LinkMyPzzl?
- Yes. Every Wend board is generated on demand in your browser — play as many as you want, for free, with no account.
- How is this different from the daily Wend puzzle?
- The daily version made popular by LinkedIn offers one grid per day. LinkMyPzzl generates unlimited boards and lets you choose the difficulty, so you can actually train.
- Does every Wend board have a unique solution?
- Yes. A solver verifies every generated board before you see it: there is always exactly one solution.
- Is every letter used by a word?
- Yes — every open tile belongs to exactly one hidden word, and the words never overlap. Dark tiles are walls and belong to no word.
- Why was my valid English word rejected?
- Only the intended hidden words are accepted. Any other word — even a real one — would leave the remaining letters impossible to partition into the listed lengths, so the board flashes it red.