Games Like Spelling Bee

Games like Spelling Bee give you the letters and ask you to make the words. The Times hive is seven letters, and every word must use the center. Letter Boxed puts letters on the sides of a square and makes you chain around it until each letter has been used. Strands hides words in a grid. Waffle shows a full square that is already full of the wrong order. Connections groups words that are spelled out. Wordle and Quordle hide a five-letter answer and never hand you the bank. The hive itself stays on the Times.

• Letter Boxed

  Words

  A square of letters, and each new word has to start from the side you just left.

  Chain words around a square of letters until every letter has been used.

• Strands

  Words

  You search a grid for theme words, then for the one word that spans them.

  Find the theme words hidden in a letter grid, then the spanning word that ties them.

• Waffle

  Words

  The letters are all present. Swaps, not new words from a hive, finish the grid.

  Swap letters in a grid until each row and column is a word. You have a limited number of swaps.

• Connections

  Words

  Sixteen words are given. You sort them. You do not invent spellings.

  Sort sixteen words into four groups of four. A wrong group costs one of your four mistakes.

• Wordle

  Words

  A hidden five-letter word. The bank of letters is not shown in advance.

  Guess the five-letter word in six tries. Each guess marks letters as hit, present, or absent.

• Quordle

  Words

  Four hidden words at once, still with no hive to draw from.

  Solve four five-letter words at once. A guess is played on every board.

• The Mini

  Words

  Clues produce the words. The letters arrive as you fill the grid.

  A small crossword with a fresh grid each day. It is built to be finished in a few minutes.

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