Word Flower (Boston Globe)

About Word Flower (Boston Globe)

Word Flower sits on Boston Globe Games with the paper's Crossword, Mini Crossword, Align, KenKen and Sudoku. The Globe calls it a way to start the day with wordplay.

Each day's puzzle is a set of letters laid out like a flower, petals around a centre letter. You type words made from those letters and the game counts each one it accepts, and the aim is to find as many as you can. When you run dry, the built-in hint feature points you toward words you have missed, and the Globe says it is a way to learn new ones as you play. If you find a word you think the list should accept or drop, the Globe has a form for telling them.

A new flower is posted every night at midnight Eastern Time. You can solve alone or team up with friends, and the archive keeps every puzzle from the past two weeks. It suits players of letter-wheel games such as Spelling Bee who want another daily set of letters from a newspaper, free.

How to play Word Flower (Boston Globe)

1. Open Word Flower on the Boston Globe's games page.
2. Look at the day's letters: petals around a centre letter.
3. Type a word made from those letters and submit it.
4. Keep finding words until you have as many as you can, using a hint when you are stuck.
5. Come back after midnight Eastern for a new flower.

Tips

• Try common endings such as -ED, -ING and -ER with the letters you have.
• Build longer words from short ones you have already found.
• Save hints for the end; a hint spent early tells you less.

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