Guide
How to play Weave
Weave hides several target words on a letter grid. Each word is a snaking orthogonal path through adjacent tiles. Together those paths use every letter exactly once and route around the wall tiles, so there is nothing left over when the board is done.
Rules
- Trace each target word through adjacent letters — Drag or tap horizontally and vertically to spell the words listed under the board. A finished word locks in color.
- No leftover letters, no overlapping words — You cannot skip a letter, share a tile between two words, or cross a wall. Every non-wall cell belongs to exactly one word.
- Unlock a word and retry — Tap a locked color to release those letters if the remaining pocket cannot fit the leftover words.
- Do not jump walls — Dark barrier tiles block routing. Words must curve around them — they never pass through.
Tips
- Place unique letters — A letter that appears once on the board belongs to exactly one word. Start there.
- Walls split the grid — Treat each pocket between walls as its own mini-weave. Words rarely jump a wall.
- Length is a constraint — If the remaining pocket has 5 cells, only a 5-letter leftover word can live there.
- Unlock and retry — A locked color that starves another word is wrong. Tap it to release the letters and reroute.
Where it comes from
Snaking word paths come out of the word-search tradition, but Weave tightens the contract: the grid is an exact cover, and every letter belongs to exactly one word. Walls split the board into pockets, which is what turns a hunt into a deduction — a pocket of six letters can only hold certain words.
How it differs from similar puzzles
A word search lets letters go unused and lets words overlap, so finding one word tells you little about the rest. Weave forbids both, which means every word you place constrains its neighbours. Themed path games that highlight one long spanning answer are a looser relative: they do not require covering the whole grid.
Also known as
Also called a word snake, a letter-partition puzzle, or a word-path cover. Weave is the Coronet Arcade title.
- Word snake
- Letter partition
- Path words
- Word-path cover
- Snaking word puzzle