Wend FAQ
Wend is a daily word puzzle. You connect adjacent letters to trace the hidden words, using every open tile exactly once. Boards come in four sizes, 5×5, 6×6, 7×7 and 8×8, with three to seven words to find, from three to eleven letters long. It launched as LinkedIn's newest daily game in June 2026.
Start on any letter and drag to neighboring tiles (up, down, left or right, never diagonally) to spell a word, then release to lock it in. The gray walls block movement, so words have to wind around them. Place every word so that every open letter is used once and no words overlap.
Yes. The fixed gray walls are arranged so each board has exactly one valid way to fit all the words together. Every puzzle here is computer-verified to have a single unique solution.
Wend only accepts the hidden words, and only along their exact solution path. A trace that spells a real English word on the wrong tiles is still wrong, because those tiles belong to other words. If the board flashes red and says it is not a word, the letters you traced are not one of the answers on this board.
Only palindromes. Every other word has to be traced from its first letter to its last. A palindrome such as LEVEL reads the same both ways, so the board accepts it in either direction.
No. Each step in a word moves to the tile directly above, below, left or right of the previous letter. Diagonal steps are never allowed, and a word can never pass through a gray wall.
Each board hides four to eight words. The shortest is three letters and the longest is one more than the board width: up to six letters on a 5×5, seven on a 6×6, eight on a 7×7 and nine on an 8×8. The empty rows under the board show you every word length before you start.
Walls are blocked tiles. No word can enter them, so they carve the open tiles into corridors and pockets that each word has to wind through. Reading the walls is the main strategy in Wend: a corridor one tile wide forces a word straight through it, and a corner pocket forces a word to start or end there.
Hint works one letter at a time. With nothing traced it reveals the first letter of the shortest missing word; with a correct partial trace it adds the next letter; if your trace has wandered off the path it snaps back to the last correct letter. Undo removes your most recently placed word. Reset clears the whole board so you can start over.
The timer keeps running while you use hints, and the puzzle still counts as solved for your streak and best time. Your hint count is shown in the result card and in the share text, so friends can see whether you solved it clean.
Yes. Use the arrow keys to move the cursor between tiles, Enter or Space to add the highlighted tile to your trace, Enter again on the last tile to submit, Backspace to remove the last letter and Escape to clear the trace.
Every board autosaves in your browser, so you can close the tab and pick up where you left off. Your streak and best times are saved locally too. Sign in with a free Coffee Break account to sync your streak and stats across devices.
Yes. The official daily gives you one puzzle, but our Unlimited mode serves an endless supply of extra boards with the same rules, and the archive lets you replay earlier dailies.
A new Wend puzzle is released every day at midnight Pacific Time. Past puzzles stay available here in the archive.
In a word search the words are straight lines and most of the grid is filler. In Wend there is no filler: every open tile belongs to exactly one word, words bend around walls, and you are not told which words to find, only how long they are. It is closer to a jigsaw than to a word search.
No. PlayWendGame.com is an independent, fan-made site and is not affiliated with LinkedIn. You can play the official daily on LinkedIn; this site adds free unlimited boards, a full archive and four grid sizes with no sign-in.