Word Salad August 13, 2025 Answers
5 answers on today's board, all fitting the theme "An Afternoon Nap".
All 5 Answers for August 13, 2025
Theme: An Afternoon Nap. Every word below fits it.
| # | Answer | Letters | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Doze | 4 | |
| #2 | Rest | 4 | |
| #3 | Shuteye | 7 | |
| #4 | Siesta | 6 | |
| #5 | Snooze | 6 |
August 13, 2025 — How the Board Breaks Down
This is the Word Salad daily board for August 13, 2025, puzzle number 531. Its theme is An Afternoon Nap, and as always the theme is the only clue the game hands you — there are no individual definitions, so every one of the 5 answers has to be pulled out of the letter pool on subject knowledge alone.
The longest answer on this board is Shuteye at 7 letters; the shortest is 4. On daily boards especially it pays to look for the long entry first, because the daily themes are often loose or punning — once you have the anchor word, the theme's real meaning usually snaps into focus and the remaining answers follow quickly. Every player receives this same board on this date, so the list above matches what you are looking at.
Neighbouring dates are linked below, and the full daily archive holds 921 boards in total. If you would rather play fixed puzzles, the game's 23 categories contain 1,340 numbered levels, and Number Salad offers 596 arithmetic boards with full solutions.
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August 13, 2025 — Questions
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3 Tips for the August 13, 2025 Board
Think “An Afternoon Nap” before you swipe
Every one of the 5 answers fits the theme An Afternoon Nap. Listing what you can think of that fits, before touching the board, beats hunting letters — the theme rules out far more words than the tiles do.
Start with Shuteye
At 7 letters it is the longest answer on this board, and the shortest runs to just 4. Clearing the long one first takes the awkward letters off the board and leaves the remaining 4 much easier to spot.
Yesterday and tomorrow are free practice
The daily theme changes every day but the mechanic does not. The board before this one is August 12, 2025 and the next is August 14, 2025. The full archive holds 921 dated boards, and the 23 themed categories add 1,340 fixed levels.
Verified Answers, Not Guesses
How we verify this daily board
The 5 answers on this page were captured from the August 13, 2025 board on the day it ran (puzzle #531), theme included, and stored unchanged. Daily boards are identical for every player worldwide, so a dated list stays correct — we do not edit an archived board once it is published.
Reviewed by Priya Raghunathan, Word Games Editor at Puzzle Solved. Our full checking routine is written up in the methodology, and the standards we hold every page to are in the editorial policy.
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How to Solve a Word Salad Board
Three moves that clear a Word Salad board, in the order worth making them.
Read every category name first
The category names are the whole clue. Reading all of them before you move a single word tells you which groups are narrow and which are broad, and the narrow one is always the cheapest place to start.
Place the words only one group can take
Some words fit two categories on sight and some fit exactly one. Placing the unambiguous ones first shrinks the pool for everything else, which is what turns a stuck board into a solved one.
A full category is a finished category
Once a group has all its slots filled, nothing else belongs in it — and every word you have left belongs somewhere else. Working by elimination beats re-reading the same word against the same category.