How to play
Guess the hidden five-letter word in six tries. Type any valid English word and press Enter. After each guess, the tiles change colour to show how close you were:
- Green — the letter is in the word and in the right spot.
- Amber — the letter is in the word but in a different spot.
- Grey — the letter is not in the word.
A letter can appear more than once. If you guess a letter twice and it appears once in the answer, only one tile is coloured. The on-screen keyboard keeps track of which letters you have used.
Daily and Unlimited
- Daily: one puzzle per day for each mode, the same for every player. A new one starts at midnight in your time zone. Your streak counts consecutive days solved.
- Unlimited: a new random word every game, as many times as you like.
Play 2, 4 or 8 words at once
Choose 2, 4 or 8 to solve several words at the same time. Every guess is entered on all boards. You get extra guesses: 7 for two words, 9 for four words and 13 for eight words. Each key on the keyboard is split into sections, one per board, so you can see how a letter scored on each word. A board locks once its word is found.
Tips
- Start with common letters. Words with E, A, R, T, O, I, S, N and L narrow things down fastest.
- Avoid repeating grey letters early on — use each guess to test new letters.
- Mind the position of amber letters. An amber letter can't be in the spot where it turned amber.
- Watch for double letters. Words like SPEED, LLAMA or FLOOR catch many players out.
- In multi-word modes, spend the first two or three guesses covering as many different letters as possible before solving any single board.
Frequently asked questions
Which words are allowed?
More than 12,000 five-letter English words are accepted as guesses. Answers are drawn from about 2,000 common words; plural forms ending in S and past tenses ending in ED are not used as answers.
Can I play more than one puzzle a day?
Yes. Switch to Unlimited for a new word every game. Daily and Unlimited keep separate statistics.
How do I share my result?
Press Share in the results window. It copies a grid of coloured squares without revealing the word.
Word list credits
Word lists are based on SCOWL, Copyright 2000–2016 by Kevin Atkinson, and the word-list package (MIT licence).