Word Wheel: Crossword Connect

Drag through the letters on the wheel to spell a word, then let go. If your word fits the crossword, it fills in. Fill every square to finish the level.

EVERY REAL WORD COUNTS
Spell a word that is not in this crossword and it still counts - as a bonus word. The game accepts 51,000+ words, and a word is judged on three things only: three letters or longer, in the dictionary, and spellable from the letters on the wheel. Nothing else can turn it down.

ANSWERS ARE WORDS YOU ACTUALLY KNOW
Crossword answers come from an everyday-vocabulary list rather than the full dictionary, so a level never asks you to find some obscure three-letter oddity. The wheel grows with you: 5 letters at the start, 6 from level 21, 7 from level 61.

2,000 LEVELS, AND MORE AFTER THEM
2,000 crosswords are built and checked before the app ships, and the wheel keeps making new ones after that. There is also a new Daily Puzzle every day - the same board for everyone that day - with a streak to keep going.

FREE, WITH NO PAYWALL
No coins, no lives, no paywalls. Every level and every hint is free. You get three hints per level and each reveals one letter, and Shuffle rearranges the wheel any time at no cost.

ABOUT THE ADS
Ads pay for the game: a banner on the menu screens and the level summary, one full-screen ad when you open the app, and a full-screen ad now and then once a level is finished - never on your first few clears, and never twice inside a minute. There is never an ad on the board while you are solving. If you run out of hints you can be offered a short video for three more; that is optional, and nothing in the game is locked behind watching it.

PLAYS ANYWHERE, KEEPS NOTHING
The dictionary and every level live inside the app, so the game works offline - in airplane mode, on the train, on a flight. There is no account and no sign-up, and your levels, bonus words and streak stay on your phone.

ALSO IN THE APP
- Every word you find is saved as you go; leave a level and it is waiting where you left it
- Stats: levels cleared, bonus words found, hints used, daily streak and best streak
- Light, dark or system theme, and a switch for haptics
- Share your result after a level
- The word lists the game is built on, and their licences, are listed in the app

Word Wheel: Crossword Connect is for people who like crosswords and word puzzles, and who are tired of being told that a perfectly good word is not a word.