This Word Hunt solver finds every word hidden in a 4 by 4 letter board by following touching squares, just like you swipe them in the game. Tap any word in the results and its path lights up on the grid, numbered from the first letter to the last.
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This is an independent practice tool for the Word Hunt game in the GamePigeon app. Canuckle is not affiliated with GamePigeon.
How to use the Word Hunt solver
- Tap the top left square and type the letters row by row. Each letter jumps you to the next square, and Backspace steps back.
- If you have the board as text, paste all 16 letters into the first square and they spread across the grid.
- Press Find words. Words are grouped by length with the longest first, and each group shows how many points one of those words is worth.
- Tap a word to see its path. The first letter is filled in red and the others are numbered in order.
Use the Board size menu for a 5 by 5 board, and the Shortest word menu if you only want longer words. Untick Include less common words to keep only everyday words, which are the ones most likely to be accepted.
Worked example
We entered this practice board, which is also what the Example board button loads:
| C | L | A | P |
| E | N | O | R |
| S | T | I | D |
| M | U | H | G |
The solver found 304 words of three letters or more, worth 196,700 points in total. Of those, 185 are everyday words worth 111,300 points. The longest was CLARINETS at nine letters, followed by CLARINET and ANCESTOR at eight, and fourteen words of seven letters such as PRANCES, PRINCES and PODIUMS.
Tapping CLARINETS shows how the path starts in the top left corner and winds through the middle of the board. Nobody spots that in a timed round without practice, which is the point of studying a board afterwards.
Word Hunt points by word length
| Word length | Points |
|---|---|
| 3 letters | 100 |
| 4 letters | 400 |
| 5 letters | 800 |
| 6 letters | 1,400 |
| 7 letters | 1,800 |
| 8 letters | 2,200 |
Points depend only on length, not on which letters you use. That makes one six letter word worth fourteen three letter words, so time spent on longer words pays off quickly.
Tips to score higher in Word Hunt
- Grab the easy short words first, then go long. A few quick three and four letter words get points on the board, but do not stay there. A single five letter word is worth eight three letter words.
- Look for endings. Find an S, ED, ER or ING cluster and work backwards from it. Every word that can reach that cluster gets longer for free: PRINCE becomes PRINCES.
- Use plurals and verb forms. If you have TRAP and there is an S next to the P, add TRAPS straight away.
- Scan around vowels. Vowels in the middle of the board connect to the most squares, so start there when you run dry.
- Practise on old boards. Screenshot a finished board, run it through the solver and look at the long words you missed. Patterns repeat between games.
Why some words might not count
The game checks words against its own dictionary, which is not published. The solver uses a large English word list, so it may show some rare words the game refuses and miss the odd slang word the game accepts. Everyday words, shown in bold, are the safest picks. Offensive words are left out of the results entirely.
Similar grid solvers
Word Hunt plays much like the classic dice game, and the Boggle solver handles 4 by 4 to 6 by 6 boards with the Qu cube. For daily puzzles with gaps in the grid, use the Squaredle solver. If you want straight-line puzzles instead, try the word search solver, or take a break with today's Canuckle.