Medium Level Wend

Medium steps up to a 6×6 grid with five words to place, and draws on the full common-word list rather than the most frequent slice. Twenty-six letter tiles is the point where you can no longer hold every option in your head at once.

The habit worth building here is working from the corners inward. Wall tiles and grid edges limit which directions a path can leave from, so the most constrained cells are the ones with the fewest open neighbours. Start there and the middle tends to resolve itself.

Medium 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.