About Word Guess
Word Guess challenges you to identify a secret five-letter English word within six attempts. After each guess the game reveals which letters are correct: a green tile means the letter is right and in the right position; a yellow tile means the letter exists in the target word but is in the wrong position; and a grey tile means the letter does not appear anywhere in the word. These three signals, read carefully, give you enough information to narrow down the solution systematically — guessing randomly from five positions is effectively impossible with 26 letters, but guided deduction can crack most words in four or five tries.
Two modes are available: Daily Mode presents the same word to all players on a given date, resetting at midnight — this creates a shared social experience where players compare attempt counts. Unlimited Mode pulls from the same dictionary but lets you play as many rounds as you want with a new random word each time, making it ideal for vocabulary practice and strategy refinement. The word pool draws from a curated list of common English words, excluding obscure technical jargon that would make the game feel arbitrary.
Hard Mode enforces a constraint: any letter revealed as correct (green or yellow) must be used in all subsequent guesses. This prevents the strategy of using a completely different "information word" after an early reveal, forcing you to work with what you know rather than fishing for new letters. Hard Mode reduces average solve attempts for skilled players from 3.8 to around 4.2, because the optimal opener (CRANE, SLATE, or RAISE) can no longer be followed by a dissimilar second word to rapidly eliminate letter groups.
How to Play
- Type letters on your keyboard to form a five-letter guess
- Enter — Submit your guess for evaluation
- Backspace — Delete the last typed letter
- On-screen keyboard available for touch devices
- Green tile — Correct letter, correct position
- Yellow tile — Correct letter, wrong position; Grey tile — Letter not in word
Tips & Strategies
Open with a vowel-rich word
Starting words like CRANE, RAISE, STARE, or AUDIO cover the five most common vowels and several high-frequency consonants, eliminating up to 5 letters in a single guess.
Treat yellows as position constraints
A yellow letter is in the word but NOT in that column. On your next guess, place it in a different column — many players forget this constraint and waste a guess placing it in the same spot.
Use Hard Mode to sharpen inference
Hard Mode forces you to work with revealed information rather than fishing with new letter sets. Even a week of Hard Mode practice dramatically improves how efficiently you use green and yellow signals.