Puzzle Words (Wordshake Daily Puzzle)

Puzzle Words sits beside the Daily Wordshake on Wordshake, the Boggle-inspired word site. Where the Wordshake board asks for every word it holds, Puzzle Words asks only for the theme's words.

Each day's puzzle has a title and a short list of answers shown as numbered blanks, so you know how many words there are and how long each is. Halloween Haul, on October 30, 2026, hid seven candy brands of four to eight letters in sixteen tiles, so letters are shared between answers. You drag through touching letters in any direction to spell them. Words that are real but off-theme are not wasted. Every four of them fill the Reveal button, which shows the next letter of a word you are missing.

There is no limit on tries and no clock. Each theme gets its own illustrated background, and holidays get their own puzzles: Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Valentine's Day all have one each year. Every day's puzzle is kept in a dated archive going back to July 2024.

It is close to Word Salad in shape, as both hide a titled theme in a 4x4 grid. Here the tiles stay put as you solve, and the hint comes from off-theme words you find. It suits players who like Strands and want a smaller grid that takes a few minutes.