Hi Airtable community! 👋
I recently started playing the Letter Boxed word game (from The New York Times Games), and it sparked an idea: what if we could use Airtable to track our daily Letter Boxed puzzles, solutions, and strategies?
If you’ve not played it yet, the game gives you 12 letters arranged on the sides of a square and challenges you to connect all letters using the fewest words possible — each word must start with the last letter of the previous one and can’t reuse letters from the same side consecutively. It’s a fun mix of vocabulary, logic, and optimization.
Since Airtable is great for organizing data and spotting patterns, I thought it’d be cool to build a simple base to:
• Log daily puzzle letter sets
• Record solutions and word counts
• Track how many times we used each strategy
• Analyze trends (e.g., common tricky patterns, average solve length, top player solutions)
Here’s what I’m thinking for the table structure:
📌 Table “Puzzles” – date, puzzle letters, difficulty notes
📌 Table “Solutions” – linked to Puzzles, word list, word count, solver name
📌 Table “Strategies” – strategy name, description, which solves used it
Some questions for the group:
🔹 Has anyone already built something similar for daily games (NYT, Wordle, Spelling Bee, etc.)?
🔹 What Airtable features (automations, formulas, linked records) would you recommend using to make this even more powerful?
🔹 Interested in collaborating on a shared or public version of this base?
Looking forward to your ideas would love to see how other Airtable fans organize and analyze puzzle data! 😊