Hard Level Wend

Hard runs on a 7×7 grid (thirty-five letter tiles, fourteen walls and six words) and starts mixing in vocabulary beyond the common list. This is also one of the tiers the daily puzzle draws from.

At this size a wrong early path can cost real time, because it will not contradict itself until several words later. The solvers who move fastest here place nothing until they have found a word that fits in only one way, then rebuild the constraint picture from there rather than pressing on.

Hard is one of six tiers in the free Wend game: 1,110 levels in all, plus a new daily Wend puzzle every day, with no account and no daily limit.