Every letter is already on the board. Your job is to move them into rows and columns that spell words, using as few swaps as you can.
Reading the board
The grid is woven: some rows and columns are words, and where they cross, one tile serves two words. Letters start in the wrong places. Drag any letter anywhere on the board to swap it, and the number beneath the grid drops by one.
Colours carry the information. A green tile is in the right place. A yellow tile belongs in its word but not in that position. The help panel adds a case for tiles that sit in a vertical word, and another for corners, where the letter may belong to the row or to the column.
The swap budget sits under the grid as a counter, so you always know how many moves are left. Swaps left over are rewarded in the scoring.
A first grid
Leave the green tiles alone. They cost nothing and anchor everything else. Corners come next. A yellow corner may be wanted by its row or by its column, so work out which word it fits before spending a swap.
The help section also covers repeated letters. When one letter appears twice in a word, only a single copy gets highlighted until the right one is placed, after which the spare stops showing. A further case, filed under the heading The funky dingo situation, explains what a highlighted letter on a crossing means when the same letter turns up in both words.
What keeps the swaps tempting
Even a poor swap moves some colours, so you always learn something. The gap between 10 and 15 is small enough that finishing in fewer swaps feels like a real target, not a rounding error.
The menu lists other modes: Daily Waffle, a weekly special called Deluxe Waffle, Number Waffle with digits instead of letters, Waffle Royale, an Archive, Badges, and a few other word games linked from the same menu.
Supporters, ads and your stats
Ads appear on the page. The Deluxe archive asks for a short advertisement before it opens. Donations go through ko-fi.com, and the supporter perks listed in the game are no ads, statistics transfer and Waffle Royale.
The FAQ is blunt that statistics sit in a cookie on your device and can vanish if the browser clears them, and that private browsing resets a streak daily. An account area in the menu syncs stats between devices. Old Waffles in the archive do not count towards regular statistics.
Best for
Readers who like rearranging more than recalling. If a blank search box worries you, a board that already contains every answer letter is a gentler start.
On the page
Waffle opens in a browser tab. The footer names Waffle Studio Ltd, and the help section says the team is based in the UK. Support questions go to the developer, not to this site.