Answer shape
Use the distributions before revealing any words.
Words by first letter
A5
E1
G4
I1
K10
N1
W11
Words by length
414
53
64
79
81
92
Two-letter starts
AK1
AW4
EK1
GA2
GE2
IN1
KE2
KI5
KN3
NA1
WA4
WE4
WI3
Pangram ladder
Open one clue at a time.
Pangram 1
Length
9 letters · 16 points
First and last letters
A … G
Letter pattern
A•••••••G
A × 2, N × 2
Reveal Pangram — spoiler
awakening
Pangram 2
Length
8 letters · 15 points
First and last letters
W … G
Letter pattern
W••••••G
N × 2
Reveal Pangram — spoiler
wakening
Pangram 3
Length
9 letters · 16 points
First and last letters
W … G
Letter pattern
W•••••••G
E × 2, N × 2
Reveal Pangram — spoiler
weakening
Complete answer list
Reveal full answers — spoiler
A 5
- akin
- awake
- awaken
- awakeningPangram
- awaking
E 1
- eking
G 4
- gawk
- gawking
- geek
- geeking
I 1
- inking
K 10
- keen
- keening
- king
- kinging
- kink
- kinking
- kiwi
- knee
- kneeing
- knew
N 1
- nankeen
W 11
- wake
- waken
- wakeningPangram
- waking
- weak
- weaken
- weakeningPangram
- week
- wiki
- wink
- winking
How hard was this puzzle?
This puzzle's structural difficulty is Hard at 66/100, compared with 193 available puzzles through this date.
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