Past puzzles / Nº 12
Letterbrew Nº 12
Thursday, 15 October 2026
Here is everything from Letterbrew Nº 12. The Wordbrew words were SIDLE, BISON and BALMY. Quadbrew hid TOAST, LATEX, KNEEL and RADAR, and Linkbrew's trickiest group was “___cake”. Want to try it yourself first? Every past puzzle can still be played for practice.
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Wordbrew words
Three five-letter words, from easy to hard, with six tries for each.
verb move unobtrusively or furtively“The young man began to sidle near the pretty girl sitting on the log”
noun any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns
adjective informal or slang terms for mentally irregular“it used to drive my husband balmy”
Quadbrew words
Four words solved at the same time, with nine guesses shared across all four boards.
verb make brown and crisp by heating“toast bread”
noun slices of bread that have been toasted
noun a milky exudate from certain plants that coagulates on exposure to air
verb rest one's weight on one's knees“In church you have to kneel during parts of the service”
noun supporting yourself on your knees
noun measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects
Linkbrew groups
Sixteen words, four hidden groups of four. From the easiest link to the trickiest:
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Synonym Sprint pairs
Ten words, each with one word that means the same. These were the matches:
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- covetmeansdesire
- happymeansjoyful
- gloomymeansdismal
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