WordCels

How to Play

Drag words onto the gameboard, so each word makes two-word phrases going across.

The words in all three rows must make two-word phrases going across.

The words in all three rows must make two-word phrases going across.

And words in columns 2 and 4 must also make phrases going down.

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Wondering when and why things turn green? Learn about progress indicators to see when your solution is on the right track.

Saturday Special

Today's Sweet Tooth Fairy:

What is a Sweet Tooth Fairy?
It's a form of speech fitting a wordcels-like pattern: the 1st and 2nd words form a known expression, and the 2nd and 3rd words do as well. And all three words together make a credible expression, often funny, or at least at the Dad-joke level.

The most famous sweet tooth fairy is from Charles Dickens: Individuals who excessively adhere to bureaucratic rules and formalities are "red tapeworms".

Saturdays are Special
Every Saturday, wordcels has a sweet tooth fairy embedded in the puzzle in the cells outlined by red dashes. A description of the sweet tooth fairy is provided as a clue.

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Progress Indicators

When you find three words that go together, they will stay together and move as a group. It's called a triplet.

A yellow triplet isn't in the right place yet.
A green triplet is perfectly placed.

look

away

game

Columns 2 and 4 are special and must also make two-word phrases going down. When they're right, they're green.

baby

forward

talk

pass

dirty

away

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Playing Mode:

Triplets turn green when they are in the right position.

When the remaining two words in each row are both correct, they also turn green.
Triplets are still green when they are in the right place. But even if the remaining two in the row are correct, they won't turn green until the full puzzle is solved.
Triplets are identified, but their color indicates nothing about placement, right or wrong.

Columns 2 & 4 still turn green when correct, but nothing else turns green until the entire puzzle is solved.

You can also learn about Puzzle Difficulty and the weekly cycle.

Puzzle Difficulty

Wordcels gets more difficult throughout the week. Monday is the easiest and Thursday - Sunday are the hardest.

😁 Monday 3 answers provided
🙂 Tuesday 2 answers provided
🤔 Wednesday 1 answer provided
😬 Thu-Sun no answers provided
🤯 TBD: 1 unused word provided

You can also adjust the Play Mode to get more or fewer progress indicators as you go.

Stats

Today:

Your Streaks:

Your Lifetime:

How Do You Compare?
Your lifetime score shown against every game of Wordcel ever played.

About Today's Puzzle

Click to see the meaning of any of today's phrases or compound words.

Additional Valid Pairs

These weren't part of the solution but you may have spent time considering them.

Super words pair in both directions and make Wordcels possible. At least two are in every puzzle. The more super word possibilities, the harder a puzzle may be. Today had

Left-handed and right-handed words can make a puzzle a bit easier.

Left words almost always start a phrase, but don't finish one. Right words almost always finish but don't start.

Left Words:

Right Words:

Know a phrase that could break this rule? Let me know.

Tips 'N Tricks

Use the progress indicators. If you put three words down in a row on the game board and they don't become a grouped triplet that move around together ... it means they don't go together in the solution, at least not horizontally. One or more of them may go with the others by being above or below in columns 1 or 2.
Organize words in the "word bank" down below the game board before placing them.
Start by looking for words that probably can only go on the left or right column. If you see "Pandora's" you can probably guess the word "box" comes next, but also it is highly unlikely there will be another word before Pandora's, so it must go in the first column.
On the other hand if you see a word like "imprisonment" it's probably going to go in the far right column, with a word like life or lifetime in front of it.
A word that seems to go with a lot of other words is probably going to end up in the middle row of column 2 or 4. If you see "gear" and multiple words that can come after it like "box", "ratio", and you also see words that can before it like "head" and "landing", it's a good bet "gear" is one of the two key joining words in the puzzle.