Grid Words

Grid Words, made by Jeff Schomay, describes itself as Sudoku meets Wordle meets crosswords. The goal is to put the right letter in every cell of a small crossword grid, where each horizontal row and vertical column forms a word; some may be several words run together, an abbreviation or a proper noun.

Instead of clues, the game gives colour feedback on every letter you place. Teal means the letter is in the right spot, orange means it belongs somewhere in that row or column but not this cell, red means it is elsewhere in the puzzle but not in this row or column, and grey means there are no more of that letter left. Each guess stacks on top of earlier ones in the cell, and you can rotate the stack to see what was underneath. The keyboard also colours keys to show untried letters, used-up letters and letters ruled out for the selected cell.

Each day's grid is chosen by the date from a set of 300 numbered puzzles that began on 16 July 2026, so everyone gets the same puzzle. The grids were generated with a tool called mini-gen from the Collaborative Word List. A move counter and a timer run while you play, and a Share button copies your result when you finish. It suits players who like Wordle's feedback and Waffle's crossing words but want to build the grid from scratch.