Cell Tower

Cell Tower is one of the browser puzzles Andrew Taylor publishes on his site, andrewt.net, where it carries a copyright from 2022. Each day brings a new numbered puzzle, counted from May 2022, and everyone gets the same grid.

The grid looks like a random stack of letters. Your job is to cut it into regions, each a connected group of cells that spells a word of four to eight letters when you read it left to right and top to bottom. That reading order matters: a region might read PUZZLE or PUZZLING but never a word whose letters sit in the wrong order. Every letter belongs to a word, and the grid has a single solution.

You tap cells to build a region and accept it as a word. Words that are part of the solution count as right; ones that are valid but wrong count against you until you remove them. When you finish, the game draws your solve as a grid of arrows: right for each correct word, up for each wrong one, so a perfect game is a straight line. A hint is on offer if you stall, though using one breaks a streak, and older puzzles can be played from a menu.

It suits players who like word searches but want a logic puzzle underneath: finding one word is easy, finding the set that leaves no letter stranded is the puzzle.