Word Guess

How to Play Word Guess

Every day at midnight (your local time) a new secret five-letter word goes live - the same word for every player. You have six guesses to find it. Type any five-letter combination and press Enter; you don't need a dictionary word, since any five-letter combo is accepted. After each guess the tiles flip to show how close you are: green means that letter is in the right spot, yellow means it's in the word but in a different spot, and gray means it isn't in the word at all.

Solve the puzzle to extend your daily streak - miss a day or fail a puzzle and the streak resets, and the leaderboard ranks the longest streaks on the site. When you finish, share your emoji grid with one tap. Want more than one word a day? Practice mode serves unlimited random words that never touch your streak.

Strategy Tips

• Open with vowel-heavy, common-consonant words - starters like AROSE, SLATE, or CRANE test five of the most frequent letters at once and usually light up two or three clues immediately.
• Make your second guess a fresh scan, not a solution attempt - if guess one gave you little, play five completely new letters (after SLATE, try POUND) instead of chasing an early green. Information beats luck.
• Move yellows, don't repeat them - a yellow letter is confirmed in the word but banned from that column. Slide it to a new position on every following guess until it turns green.
• Watch for duplicate letters - words like BERRY, SWEET, and DAILY trip up players who assume every letter appears once. If four letters are locked and nothing fits, try doubling one you've already confirmed.
• Think in patterns for the endgame - with _IGHT or SHA_E locked in, list every candidate before guessing (LIGHT, MIGHT, NIGHT, RIGHT...). With two guesses left, a scan word that tests three candidates' distinguishing letters beats guessing them one by one.