Word Weft (Decatur Games)

About Word Weft (Decatur Games)

Word Weft is one of three daily word puzzles from Decatur Games, next to Step Words and Twice Thrice. Each day has its own numbered puzzle built from 10 letters, shown above every row of the board.

The board has four rows of empty boxes, one for each pattern: a 3-letter word with a 7-letter word, a 4-letter word with a 6-letter word, two 5-letter words, and two 3-letter words with a 4-letter word. In every row you have to use all 10 letters exactly once, with nothing left over. The same letters feed all four rows, so the work is finding four different ways to cut one pool of letters into words.

Each box takes a single letter. As you type, the board marks letters that are not in the set or that you have used too many times, and shows whether each finished word is valid. There is usually more than one answer for a row; any valid set counts. Fill all four rows correctly and the puzzle is solved.

No account is needed. A calendar under Play Historical Puzzle lets you go back to earlier days.

How to play Word Weft (Decatur Games)

1. Open decaturgames.com/wordweft to see the day's 10 letters above each row.
2. Type one letter per box to fill a row's words, using every one of the 10 letters exactly once in that row.
3. Watch the highlights: they flag letters not in the set, letters used too often, and whether each word is valid.
4. Complete all four rows: 3 and 7, 4 and 6, two 5s, and two 3s with a 4.
5. Use Play Historical Puzzle in the menu to try earlier days.

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Tips

• Start with the 3 and 7 row: find one long word and the three leftover letters often make a short word straight away.
• Use doubled letters early, such as the two Ts or two As, since they must go somewhere in every row.
• Vowels are the tight resource in the two-3s-and-a-4 row, which needs three separate words, so plan that row around them.
• Words from one row can give ideas for another: a 7-letter word may split into a 4 and a 3 for the last row.

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