How to Open a Port in Your Router for Word Puzzle

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January 24, 2019 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 2 minutes

Word Puzzle is a Puzzle game published by InterServ, Microsoft Game Studios released in 2007.

Word Puzzle is a puzzle game. Puzzle games require players to solve a variety of puzzles ranging from logic to patterns to words and numbers. Puzzle games sometimes use a timer to create a sense of pressure to solve the puzzle faster. Some puzzlers involve level progression, but many are more of the arcade style where all progression ends when the player stops playing.

Forward Ports for Word Puzzle

When you are playing Word Puzzle you might need to forward some ports in your router. Forwarding ports is a useful trick in gaming because it can really help to make your network connection most stable and on occasion even faster. Routers were not designed to allow incoming network requests and some games can play tremendously better if an incoming connection is forwarded through the router to the game.

Before You Forward a Port

Before you can forward a port you need to know the following things:

How to locate your router's IP Address

The easiest way to locate your router's IP address is to run our free Router Detector utility. It's a part of the Network Utilities suite of tools and it's completely free to use.

How To Forward Ports

Quickly get your ports forwarded using Network Utilities. Then when you are done you can just as easily close your ports back down to keep your network as secure as possible. You can also do it manually.

The general process for forwarding a port is:

Ports To Forward for Word Puzzle

The exact ports for Word Puzzle are as follows:

Word Puzzle - Xbox 360

  • TCP: 3074
  • UDP: 88, 3074

We have guides that are custom tailored for Word Puzzle that will show you the specific ports.

That's all it takes to open your ports. Want to learn how to create more port forwards? Check out our list of games and applications.

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