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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!

Coming Soon: A Change to the WordWalk Points Reward System

Currently, WordWalk starts you off with 0 points and then you get 10 points for each correctly placed subword and an extra 100 for the rootword (which also counts a subword so, in fact, you 110 points for the rootword).  So, for a five-subword puzzle you can get a maximum of 160 points. Moving forward (possibly starting tomorrow) the points system will be different.  You will start out with a certain number of points (say, 100, for discussion purposes).  Then you will get 10 points added to your points stash for each new correctly guessed letter and also 10 points for each new correctly guessed arrow.  These points will not be added, however, until after you've completely and successfully placed the subword in the puzzle graph.  Once that is done you will get some extra points (say, 25) for the subword itself and the new points for new letters and arrows that were obtained while placing the subword. If you fail while trying to place a subword, you won't lose rem...