Wend helper
Find or validate paths, then test whether candidate words can cover the remaining board.
Your puzzle
A little help
Enter your puzzle or try the original example. You choose when to open candidates, explanations and complete results.
How the Wend helper works
- Wend uses orthogonal adjacency and can contain blocked cells.
- Paths cannot reuse a cell, and confirmed words cannot overlap.
- A full solution uses every active cell once.
Find or validate paths, then test whether candidate words can cover the remaining board. Work from the information you have already revealed; this helper does not fetch an official daily answer.
Results use the puzzle you enter; they are not verified daily answers. Your entries stay out of public URLs.
A path is only the first check
An adjacent spelling can be geometrically valid and still steal letters needed elsewhere. Ordinary candidate search and single-path validation remain available; full-cover analysis adds the all-cells constraint.
Why every path matters
The same spelling can wind through repeated letters in several ways. Cover analysis retains distinct paths instead of committing to the first occurrence. A placement required in every candidate cover is stronger than a dictionary match, but its proof still depends on the chosen vocabulary.
Original example and limits
The example uses ordinary words arranged in simple rows. It is a synthetic geometry exercise, not a publisher theme. A unique cover of those words says nothing about missing alternatives in the official answer list.
Handle the game-specific boundary
An opposite-edge path may be a Strands spangram candidate but other theme words can also touch opposite edges. Wend usually uses varied lengths, yet its designer explicitly allows exceptions; the helper does not invent a unique-length constraint.
Supported puzzle types
- player-entered state
Scope of this helper
- No independent dictionary can establish the official theme, word list or accepted spangram.
- Full covers use each candidate word at most once; bounds are 120,000 search nodes, 5,000 paths and 100 covers.
- No forced path is reported after truncated path enumeration or cover search.
Play the original at LinkedIn. This is an unofficial helper with no publisher affiliation.
Rules and reference sources
- Official game identity — checked 2026-10-04
- Official Wend designer rules — checked 2026-10-04
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