Word Guess
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About This Game
Play Word Guess free online - guess the 5-letter word in 6 tries with color hints. A daily word puzzle in the style of Wordle. Shareable result grid.
How to play Word Guess
Objective: Identify the hidden five-letter word within six guesses, turning a full row of tiles green before you run out.
Every puzzle is a five-letter word and you get six rows to find it. Type any five letters and press Enter to submit. Each tile then recolors: green means the letter is correct and in the right spot, yellow means it is in the word but sits somewhere else, and gray means it is not in the word. Read those colors from each row to plan the next guess.
The game does not check whether your guess is a real word. As long as you enter exactly five letters it accepts the guess, and submitting fewer shows a 'Need 5 letters' prompt. So you can spend early rows on deliberate letter-testing words. You solve the instant your word matches the hidden one, and you lose if all six rows fill without a match, at which point the answer is revealed.
Two modes sit at the top. Daily gives everyone the same word for that calendar day, so results are comparable. Practice picks a random word and lets you replay immediately. Ending a game in either mode updates three counters kept in your browser: Played rises on every finished game win or loss, Won rises only when you solve it, and Streak climbs with each win and resets to zero the moment you lose.
Type on your physical keyboard or click the on-screen keyboard below the board. Enter submits and Backspace clears the last letter. Those on-screen keys recolor too, tracking letters you have ruled in or out. After a game ends, Share Result copies an emoji grid to the clipboard and Play Again starts a fresh practice word.
Tips and strategy
Spend guess one on vowels
Because guesses need not be real words, open with a word that packs common letters, like AUDIO or ADIEU. Testing several vowels at once shows which the answer holds before you commit rows to real candidates.
Keep confirmed greens fixed
Once a tile is green, that letter belongs in that exact column. Reuse it in the same slot every following guess. Moving a confirmed green wastes a row and tells you nothing new about the letters left to place.
Reposition yellow letters
A yellow tile means the letter is in the word but not in that column. Next guess, place it in a different slot. Cycling a yellow letter through untested positions is the fastest way to turn it green.
Read the keyboard colors
The on-screen keyboard remembers every result: gray keys are eliminated, yellow and green keys are still live. Building each guess only from letters that are not gray keeps every one of your six rows productive.
Watch for repeated letters
The word list includes words with doubled letters. If a confirmed letter still will not solve, try using it twice in one guess. The tile coloring handles duplicates correctly: a second copy only lights up if the answer truly has two.
Frequently asked questions
Is the daily word the same for everyone?
Yes. Daily mode derives the word from the current calendar day, so every player who opens it on the same date faces the identical puzzle, which makes the shared emoji grid comparable between friends. Practice mode instead picks a random word each time, better for repeated play.
Do my guesses have to be real words?
No. The game only requires exactly five letters and does not check them against a dictionary. You can submit combinations that are not words to probe which letters exist and where. The hidden answer itself, however, is always a common five-letter word from the built-in list.
What happens to my streak if I lose?
Your Streak counter resets to zero as soon as you fail to solve within six guesses. Played and Won keep their totals, but the run ends; winning raises Streak by one each time. All three counters are stored locally in your browser, so clearing site data erases them.
How does the Share Result button work?
When a game ends, Share Result copies a text grid to your clipboard showing each guess as green, yellow, and black squares, plus a score line like '3/6' for a win or 'X/6' for a loss. It shows your solve pattern without revealing the actual letters.