What is Weaver?
Weaver is a daily word ladder. You get a start word at the top and a target word at the bottom, and you have to build a chain of real words between them. Each new word may differ from the one before it by exactly one letter, so COLD might become CORD, then WORD, then WARD, and so on until you land on the target. The fewer steps you need, the better, and every rung has to be a genuine word. Word ladders are an old puzzle: Lewis Carroll is usually credited with inventing them in the 1870s. Weaver turns the idea into a tidy daily game with colour feedback that shows which letters already match the goal. If the classic ladder feels too easy, the same site runs Weaver X, where a step can also add or remove a letter, so the words grow and shrink along the way. Weaver suits anyone who likes Wordle but wants a puzzle about paths rather than guesses, and it rarely takes more than a few minutes.
How to play
- Type a word that changes just one letter of the word above it.
- Every step must be a real word. Letters that match the target are marked.
- Reach the target word in as few steps as you can.
