WORDLE is a recently blown up game very similar to the well-known boardgame Mastermind. For those who don't know, Mastermind is a puzzle gamefor two players spanning over two turns.
Each turn, one of the player becomes the Codemaker and the other personbecomes the Codebreaker. The Codemaker creates a combination of coloredpins for the other party to guess. The Codebreaker has a total of twelveguesses.
After each guess, the Codemaker must indicate how close the guess was byspecifying how many pins are at the correct place and how many are in thecorrect place and of correct color.
WORDLE works in a similar way. You enter a valid word and the app shows youwhich letters are in the correct position, which are in the wrong positionand which are not in the sought-after word at all.
The fundamental difference is that WORDLE hints are a much stronger indicationof what the solution is compared to Mastermind. To balance this, the amount ofguesses only equals to six in WORDLE.
Green
A green hint indicates that the letter inside the box is at the correctposition and the correct letter in the searched word.
Yellow
A yellow hint indicates that you placed a letter that is inside thesearch word, but the position of that letter is wrong.
Gray
A gray hint indicates that the letter is not inside the word at all.
More WORDLE was an attempt to make WORDLE more challenging. So in additionto providing a daily five-letter word, we also provide a daily six and sevenletter word. The seven-letter WORDLE is incredibly difficult to guess andis reserved for just the most dedicated WORDLE players.
Unfortunately, the original WORDLE was bought by the New York Times, soit is just a matter of time until it ends up behind a paywall, which ispartially the reason why we created this app in the first place.
First guesses are pretty much random. A very popular YouTuber called3Blue1Brown used information theory to deduce the best WORDLE opener.First he proposed that "CRANE" was the best possible opener,but then amended his proposal shortly after due to a small bug. Checkout his video about this to find out more!
We recommend your WORDLE opener to be anything that contains two vowelsbut doesn't start with one. Pretty much any pattern that resembles afrequent English word pattern suffices here.
For subsequent guesses, try to use the hints you received earlier. MoreWORDLE helps you by coloring the keys in the on-screen keyboard gray,green or yellow. You can completely ignore gray letters. Put greenletters at the positions where they occur. Re-use yellow letters in adifferent place than before and you should have good chances ofguessing the daily WORDLE.
The five-letter daily WORDLE is pretty simple, let's be honest. Thereforewe added a daily six and seven letter WORDLE as well. Just tap the cogwheel icon on top of the page and choose Medium or Hard difficultyrespectively. You get one more additional guess for Medium difficultyand two more additional guesses for Hard difficulty. Good starters onthose modes are words ending with -ing.
After you won or lost a WORDLE game, the app updates your stats. Show themby tapping the podium icon on top of the page. It shows:
- how many WORDLE games you have played already
- how many of those you won
- how big your current win streak is
- how big your highest ever win streak was
- when the next WORDLE begins
You can share your WORDLE achievements on social media. Tap the sharebutton and your latest result will be copied to clipboard, which you canthen simply paste on Twitter, Reddit, Discord or whatever Social Mediachannel you use. It displays the difficulty of the WORDLE you justplayed and how many guesses you needed to solve it. It also showsthe hints you received in a nice grid, the size of which depends onthe difficulty.
Make sure to win the Medium and Hard WORDLE mode to show off to your friends!
