Meet Wordexo, our daily letter-wheel word hunt. Build words from seven letters that all use the center tile, and chase the septagram.
Here is the daily that rewards stubbornness. You get a wheel of seven letters, one of them sitting in the middle, and a single instruction: build as many words as you can. The catch is that every word has to use that center letter, so the same tight set of tiles keeps folding back on itself, and the longer you stare the more it gives up.
Wordexo is built for people who like to mine one letter set for everything it holds rather than chase a single hidden answer.
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The board is a wheel: six letters around the rim and one required letter in the center, seven distinct letters in all. Every word you submit must be at least four letters long and must use that center letter. You can reuse letters as often as you like, so four short tiles can spin out into a long word if the letters cooperate.
The word every solver is hunting is the septagram, a word that uses all seven letters at once. There is at least one each day, and landing it is the high point of the puzzle.
Reach is rewarded. A four letter word scores one point. A longer word scores its full length, so a seven letter find is worth seven. Any septagram adds a seven point bonus on top of its length, which makes the big words carry real weight.
Your word score alone sets your rank, and it climbs through six tiers: Novice, Scholar, Wordsmith, Sage, Mastermind, and finally Wordexo itself when you find every word in the day's list. Most days you can reach a respectable rank without clearing the board, but that top tier asks for all of it.
Above the score sit named bonuses that reward how you play, not just how much. Land the septagram as your very first word and you earn Eagle Eye. Find it inside ninety seconds for Speed Racer, or inside thirty for Lightning Strike. Catch every four letter word for Short King. Reach Mastermind without ever using a four letter word for Leap Frog. And you collect a point for each day of your current streak. These ride on top of your word score and show up as emoji on your share card.
Find the septagram early. Chasing the all seven word first does double duty: it banks the biggest single score on the board, and if it is your opening move it triggers Eagle Eye and, with a little speed, a time bonus too. Once you have the long word in hand, the shorter four and five letter words tend to fall out of the same letters quickly.
Wordexo is live now. Seven letters, one center tile, and a lot more words hiding in there than you think.
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