Wordle Game
Wordle #1506
How to Play Wordle
Choose Your Mode
Select Daily mode to play the word of the day — the same puzzle for everyone worldwide — or switch to Unlimited mode to play as many rounds as you want with new random words. Your mode choice is remembered between sessions.
Type Your First Guess
Type any valid 5-letter word using your physical keyboard or the on-screen QWERTY keyboard. Good starting words contain common letters like E, A, R, O, T — try CRANE, SLATE, or RAISE. Press ENTER to submit your guess.
Read the Color Feedback
Watch the tiles flip to reveal colors: green means the letter is in the correct position, yellow means the letter is in the word but in the wrong spot, and gray means the letter is not in the word at all. The on-screen keyboard also updates to show your best known state for each letter.
Share Your Results
After the game ends — win or lose — the stats modal shows your streak and guess distribution. Tap Share to copy a spoiler-free emoji grid to your clipboard and send it to friends. Hard Mode results are marked with an asterisk so you get proper credit for the tougher challenge.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is the daily puzzle word chosen?
The daily puzzle is selected using a date-based algorithm. Starting from January 20, 2022 — the day Wordle was acquired by The New York Times — each calendar date maps to a specific word in the curated answer list. This means every player worldwide who plays on the same date gets exactly the same puzzle, enabling the shared social experience that made Wordle famous. The answer rotates through a pre-set list of approximately 2,000 common, familiar five-letter English words selected to be challenging but fair. Obscure technical terms, archaic words, and offensive content are excluded from the answer pool.
What is Hard Mode and how does it work?
Hard Mode adds a constraint: every letter revealed as correct (green) must appear in the exact same position in all subsequent guesses, and every letter revealed as present (yellow) must appear somewhere in all subsequent guesses. This forces you to build on your discovered information rather than using a fresh probe word to eliminate new letters. If you violate these rules, the game will reject your submission with a message like '3rd letter must be A' or 'Guess must contain R.' Hard Mode can only be enabled or disabled before your first guess — once you start a game it is locked. Your Hard Mode results are marked with an asterisk in the share output.
How does the color evaluation handle duplicate letters?
Wordle uses a two-pass evaluation algorithm to handle duplicate letters fairly. In the first pass, every letter that appears in the exact correct position is marked green and removed from consideration. In the second pass, remaining letters are checked for presence anywhere in the remaining (unconsumed) answer letters. This means if the answer contains only one 'E' but your guess has two 'E's, at most one will be yellow or green — accurately representing that only one copy of that letter exists in the answer. This careful handling prevents misleading feedback that simpler implementations get wrong with repeated letters.
What does Colorblind Mode do?
Colorblind Mode, also called High Contrast Mode, replaces the standard green and yellow color scheme with orange and blue. These two colors are much more distinguishable for players with red-green color blindness (deuteranopia or protanopia), which affects roughly 8% of men and 0.5% of women. The share emoji grid also changes when Colorblind Mode is active: instead of green (🟩) and yellow (🟨) squares, it uses orange (🟧) and blue (🟦). The gray color for absent letters remains unchanged. You can toggle Colorblind Mode at any time through the Settings menu without affecting your current game.
How is my streak calculated?
Your current streak counts how many consecutive calendar days you have won the Daily puzzle. Winning today's puzzle adds one to your streak. Losing resets it to zero. If you skip a day entirely — you simply do not play — the streak resets the next day you play, since a continuous win chain was broken. Unlimited mode games do not affect your streak counter; only Daily puzzle results count toward streak tracking. Your maximum streak ever achieved is also stored and displayed in the Statistics panel, so you can see your personal best even after a streak break. All data is saved to your browser's local storage.
What are some good starting word strategies?
The best starting words contain five distinct common letters to maximize information from your first guess. Letters that appear most frequently in five-letter English words are E, A, R, O, T, I, S, N, L, and C. Popular choices among serious players include CRANE, SLATE, RAISE, STARE, AUDIO, and ADIEU. After your opening guess reveals colors, your second guess should ideally introduce new letters you have not tested yet — unless you are in Hard Mode. Some players use a fixed two-guess opener like CRANE followed by STOIC to cover ten different common letters before committing to a specific word. Experimenting with opening pairs and tracking your guess distribution in the stats panel is the best way to find what works for your solving style.