Wend · No. 72 · Wednesday edition
LinkedIn Wend #72 Answer (Aug 19, 2026)
Hint: Letters in the corners can only belong to a few words — start your search there.
Show Wend #72 answer as text
- CHIC
- COCOA
- OCCUPY
- COUNCIL
About Wend #72
- Wend #72 hides 4 words in a 5×5 letter grid.
- The words are 4 to 7 letters long.
- It has 4 words, fewer than the average of 4.6 across the previous 7 puzzles.
- The 5×5 grid has 3 holes across 3 rows (all inside the grid), leaving 22 letter squares in a pattern that is mirrored top to bottom.
- The four words run to four, five, six, and seven letters, so no two share a length.
- Start with the 7-letter word, which uses 7 of the 22 letters and has to bend around the inner holes.
- One letter square has only one neighboring letter, so a word must start or end there.