Word Snake (Puzzleship)

About Word Snake (Puzzleship)

You read a clue, work out the answer, and trace its path. Diagonals never connect, and a letter used by one word is gone for the others, so each answer you trace makes the rest easier to see. The answer column shows either the letter count or the first letter, depending on the puzzle.

The six daily tabs share the grid rules and differ in clueing. Mix clues each answer only by its category, such as Birds, and shows the first letter. Clues gives a one-line definition, Two Clues joins two senses of the word with or, One Clue gives a single theme for all answers, Thematic gives a theme and a clue for each, and Associations gives three related words, such as Peak, Climb and Range.

Puzzleship publishes six Word Snake puzzles a day, one in each clue style. Each day's puzzles are numbered and dated, the same for every player, and appear at midnight in your own time zone; earlier days stay playable in the archive. The site is free with ads, and a premium plan removes them.

How to play Word Snake (Puzzleship)

1. Open Word Snake and pick one of the day's six puzzles.
2. Read a clue and work out the answer.
3. Drag through adjacent letters, up, down, left or right, to trace it.
4. Use the letter count or first letter in the answer column as a check.
5. Trace every answer to fill the grid.

Tips

• Find the first letter and check its four neighbours for the second.
• Edge and corner letters have few neighbours; test them first.
• Trace the answers you are sure of first; used letters leave the grid.
• Anchor on rare letters like Q or V and work outwards.

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