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Announcing Wordwalk 2.0 Beta!!! (aka https://spaghettispeller.com)

 At long last I am pleased to announce that the new interactive, dynamic site for Wordwalk 2.0 is now open for Beta testing. You can find it here:   Wordwalk.2.0 Beta This site has many features that improve on the legacy Wordwalk site: User sign up / login available Puzzle creation:  Create your own unique puzzles and challenge others to solve them as quickly as you can! Player leaderboards Puzzle liking / favoriting Following other users Commenting on puzzles User profiles Future planed enhancements: Buy, selling, and trading puzzles using accumulated points as 'currency' Live two-person puzzle competitions Many more languages (coming soon:  Italian, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish) Long-term: points conversion to crypto tokens Long-term: Rendering puzzles as NFTs

Wordwalk Puzzles: 2023-01-27

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WordWalk Puzzles for 2023-01-28 at https://wordwalk.net Yesterday's puzzles: English rootword was "GRADUALLY". German rootword was "ZWEIFLER". Spanish rootword was "DESCUIDA". Kids rootword was "HUMAN". #wordwalkpuzzles   Here's the solution for yesterday's English puzzle: First subword,  "DRUG":  Second and Third subwords, "DAY" and "LAY": After final subword, "GUY":   Just before placing the final letter of the rootword, "GRADUALLY":       Upon completion:   wordwalk.net  

WordWalk Puzzles: 1/26/23

 WordWalk Puzzles for 2023-01-26 at https://wordwalk.net Yesterday's puzzles: English rootword was "CONDITION". German rootword was "ZUCKTET". Spanish rootword was "MORTALES". Kids rootword was "DEPOSIT". #wordwalkpuzzles

Daily WordWalk Puzzle for 9/18/2022

Daily WordWalk Puzzles: English Spanish German Kids Yesterday's words can be found at the website. Enjoy!

Daily WordWalk Puzzles: 9/14/22

  Daily WordWalk Puzzles: English Spanish German Kids Yesterday's words can be found at the website. Enjoy!

Changes to Puzzle Rules and Presentation 9/13/2022

Made some changes to WordWalk puzzles: 1) Now displaying number of letters in hidden rootword. 2) The bubble of the rootword's first letter is thickened. 3) The points system has changed (read about it at the site). 4) You get 4 guesses instead of 3 before you lose. 5) Main puzzles are based on 7-letter rootwords and 5 subwords of minimum 3 letters each. 6) Kids puzzles are based on 5-lettr rootwords and 5 subwords of minimum of 2 letters each. Daily WordWalk Puzzles: English: https://wordwalk.net/daily-puzzle-english Spanish: https://wordwalk.net/daily-puzzle-spanish German: https://wordwalk.net/daily-puzzle-german Kids (English): https://wordwalk.net/kids-english-1 Yesterday's words can be found at the website. Enjoy!

Daily WordWalk Puzzles for 9/12/2022: Including puzzles for kids!

Daily WordWalk Puzzles: English Spanish German Kids Yesterday's words can be found at the website. Enjoy!

Daily WordWalk Puzzles 9/7/2022

 Daily WordWalk Puzzles: English Spanish German Yesterday's words can be found at the website. Enjoy!

Daily WordWalk Puzzles for 9/6/22

Daily WordWalk Puzzles: English Spanish German Yesterday's words can be found at the website. Enjoy!

Daily WordWalk Puzzles 9/5/2022

 Daily WordWalk Puzzles: English:  https://wordwalk.net/daily-puzzle-english Spanish:  https://wordwalk.net/daily-puzzle-spanish German: https://wordwalk.net/daily-puzzle-german Yesterday's words can be found at the website. Enjoy!

Announcing Spanish WordWalk Puzzles!

Just launched this morning: Daily Spanish WordWalk Puzzles    

Subwords Can Be Longer than the Rootword!!

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Most of the time, subwords are shorter than the rootword, but every once in a while you get a subword that is indeed longer than the rootword. Here's an example in Spanish:  The rootword is "IREMOS", a six-letter word, but one of its subwords, "ERRORES", is a seven-letter word!  The reason for this is that a subword is defined as a word whose set of letters is a subset of the letters in the rootword.  Sets of letters only count each letter once. Thus the set for "ERRORES" is {E,R,O,S}, while the set for "IREMOS" is {I,E,R,M,O,S}.  All the letters of the first set also occur in the second set, and so the former is a subset of the latter.  By definition, this means that "ERRORES" is a subword of "IREMOS".   The word "ERRORES" is long because it uses the letter R three times and the E twice, but doesn't use all the available letters like "IREMOS" does. Here's another example of an 8-letter subwords...