Wend · No. 45 · Thursday edition
LinkedIn Wend #45 Answer (Jul 23, 2026)
Hint: Letters in the corners can only belong to a few words — start your search there.
Show Wend #45 answer as text
- APPLE
- DECREE
- ATHLETE
- AARDVARK
About Wend #45
- Wend #45 hides 4 words in a 6×6 letter grid.
- The words are 5 to 8 letters long.
- It has 4 words, fewer than the average of 4.5 across the previous 4 puzzles.
- The 6×6 grid has 10 holes across 6 rows (2 corners, 4 inside the grid, and 4 along the edges), leaving 26 letter squares in a pattern that is symmetric under a half turn.
- The four words run to five, six, seven, and eight letters, so no two share a length.
- Start with the 8-letter word, which uses 8 of the 26 letters and has to bend around the inner holes.
- Two letter squares have only one neighboring letter, so a word must start or end there.