Waffle, created by jessian and named by Mrs Waffle, lays 21 letters on a board shaped like its namesake: three words across and three down, sharing letters where they cross. You drag any letter onto any other to swap them, and colors show which letters sit right, which belong elsewhere in a word, and which corner tiles could go either way. You get 15 swaps, every puzzle can be solved in 10, and each swap left over becomes a star. Saving those stars is the real goal.
The list starts with boards shaped the same way, six crossing words and a fixed budget of swaps, then moves to square grids where every row and column must spell a word. Later picks change the shape of the board or the unit being moved: rows only, three mini crosswords, or whole words traded between dictionary definitions.
The same breakfast-shaped board and the same job: swap scrambled tiles until all six words, across and down, read correctly within 15 moves. For anyone who comes to Waffle for the grid itself, this is a near twin.
Also built on a waffle-shaped lattice: fifteen swaps, each exchanging a pair of letters, to fix six intersecting words, and the colors report on each word separately rather than tile by tile.
Six crossing words in a lattice again, fixed by exchanging pairs of tiles, but the budget is set relative to each puzzle: five trades above the computed minimum, instead of a flat 15.
Fifteen swaps to straighten out six scrambled words in a grid, and a better result the fewer you use, the same thrift that earns stars in Waffle.
Fills a full 5x5 board instead of a lattice, so each row and each column has to spell a word. Hints come as green and yellow tiles, and spending fewer swaps earns more stars, as in Waffle.
Its board is a little crossword instead of a waffle: rearrange the scrambled letters until the whole grid shows green, helped by color hints and limited to a tight number of swaps.
Three small crosswords per day, each untangled by swapping letters within a move limit. Letters that land correctly go green and stay put, which takes away some of the second-guessing that Waffle's corners can cause.
Uses square grids of 5x5 or 7x7, unscrambled by swapping tiles until every word reads right, and you can chase a quick time, a low swap count or both. The larger size is a real step up from Waffle's 21 letters.
Another 5x5 swap puzzle, where the goal is five real five-letter words across the rows, with a Sprint mode and an archive next to the daily board, much like the archive Waffle keeps.
Five words on a shared theme hide in the rows of a scrambled grid. Colored hints in green, yellow and gray steer the swaps, and the target is to finish near the eight-move minimum, much as Waffle's floor sits at 10.
Only the rows have to spell words here, since columns do not count, which makes it a lighter warm-up for Waffle players. Grids come in mini, classic and maxi sizes plus a mystery one, each with a swap target.
The swap-to-fix idea applied to whole words: you move words between rows until three jumbled dictionary definitions make sense, with green, orange and gray hints. Each one can be done in ten swaps, the same minimum Waffle puzzles have.
At least 10. Every daily Waffle can be finished in 10 swaps, and you are given 15, so a perfect solve leaves five spare. Each unused swap turns into a star once the board is complete, which is why the statistics page tracks a star distribution from zero to five as well as your streak.
Corner squares belong to two words at once, one across and one down. When a corner letter is marked as present but misplaced, it is telling you the letter belongs in either the horizontal word or the vertical one, so you need the other clues on the board to work out which of the two it is.
Yes. Alongside the Daily Waffle there is a weekly Deluxe Waffle, a Number Waffle in which digits are swapped so each row and column holds 1 to 7, and a premium Waffle Royale. Archive puzzles do not affect your stats, and a timed mode gives you 90 seconds to clear as many boards as you can.
