Reunion

Reunion is a free word puzzle on the Merriam-Webster games site. Each day brings a seven-row grid of crossing words whose letters have been shuffled. Some tiles already sit in their right place and show green; the rest are scattered, and you put them back by dragging one tile onto another to swap them.

Two animal tiles, a fox and a hedgehog, are mixed in with the letters. They break a column into two shorter words, and they have to be moved too: when every letter is right, the two end up next to each other somewhere on the board, across, up and down or diagonally. That is the reunion the game is named for.

Colour guides each swap. Green means the letter is in its spot. Yellow means it belongs somewhere else in the same row or column. White means that row and column do not need it at all. A tile can change from yellow to white after a move elsewhere, so the hints shift as the board fills in. Every word is at least three letters long.

Every swap counts as a move, and the fewer you use the more stars you earn. There are two puzzles a day: Classic, and Extreme, which starts with fewer green tiles and harder words. Their stats and streaks are kept apart, and an archive holds past days.

Reunion suits players who like Waffle's swap solving but want a larger grid with a little extra to plan around, and anyone who already plays Merriam-Webster's other dailies such as Blossom and Quordle.