LinkedIn Wend Answer #97 — Sunday, September 13, 2026

Sunday, September 13, 2026 · 7×7 grid ·6 words

The hidden words

#	Length	Word
1	4 letters	PUMP
2	5 letters	GROUP
3	7 letters	DISRUPT
4	8 letters	CUPBOARD
5	9 letters	PUPPETEER
6	10 letters	POPULATION

Board specification

Every figure is counted from the board above, captured from the official puzzle. Nothing here is estimated.
Puzzle	#97
Date	Sep 13, 2026
Grid	7 × 7 (43 letter tiles, 6 empty)
Hidden words	6 of 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 letters
Words that bend	6 of 6
Longest straight run	5 tiles
Words touching the border	5 of 6

Path by path

Each word below is described as a route: where it starts, which direction each straight leg runs in, and where it finishes. Coordinates are row and column counting from the top-left corner of the7×7 grid, so you can follow every one on the solved board above.

1. PUMP (4 letters)

Starts at row 4, column 7 and ends at row 6, column 6. 2 turns: down 2 → left 2 → down 2. First letter P, last letter P.

2. GROUP (5 letters)

Starts at row 4, column 3 and ends at row 6, column 3. 3 turns: down 2 → left 2 → down 2 → right 2. First letter G, last letter P.

3. DISRUPT (7 letters)

Starts at row 1, column 2 and ends at row 1, column 4. 4 turns: left 2 → down 2 → right 3 → up 2 → right 2. First letter D, last letter T.

4. CUPBOARD (8 letters)

Starts at row 2, column 6 and ends at row 3, column 6. 4 turns: left 2 → up 2 → right 3 → down 3 → left 2. First letter C, last letter D.

5. PUPPETEER (9 letters)

Starts at row 3, column 4 and ends at row 6, column 7. 4 turns: down 2 → right 2 → down 4 → right 3 → up 2. First letter P, last letter R.

6. POPULATION (10 letters)

Starts at row 3, column 2 and ends at row 6, column 4. 3 turns: left 2 → down 5 → right 4 → up 2. First letter P, last letter N.

How to Play Wend

The board

A square grid of letter tiles with a few blank cells. Puzzle #97 uses a 7×7 grid holding 43 letters, which is typical: the puzzle scales the grid to fit the words it wants rather than fixing one size.

The rules

Find every hidden word. Each is a path through tiles that touch horizontally or vertically, so words can bend.
Every tile is used exactly once across all words — no overlaps, nothing left over.
Lengths vary; the set usually runs from one short word up to one long one.
No clock, one board per day, one attempt on the official puzzle.

Why the word order matters

Solving the longest word first is not a stylistic choice. On this board the longest word is 10 tiles and the shortest is 4; the long one has far fewer valid routes, so every placement it rules out is a route you no longer have to check.

Sources and method

The grid is captured from the official LinkedIn Wend puzzle for Sep 13, 2026. The word boundaries are solved from that grid by our own deterministic solver, which requires every tile to be used exactly once — the counts above are read off the board, not taken from another site.

LinkedIn Wend (official puzzle) — www.linkedin.com/games/wend/ · grid source
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