How to play.wordle

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Where do I find Wordle?
How do I play Wordle?
What are these squares everyone is sharing on Twitter?
Anything else I need to know?

This edition of the Wordle for kids contains a dictionary of words for children up to 8th grade and has a word length starting from 3 letters. This game will be very useful for developing memory and logical thinking skills in children.

Generate your own Wordle puzzle with any word from 4 to 11 letters and challenge your friends! Can your friend guess the hidden word in 6 tries?

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To get started, simply enter any five-letter word to find out which letters match the hidden word. In total, you will have 6 tries to guess the hidden word.
If any letters are marked in yellow, this means that this letter is in the hidden word, but doesn't match the exact location in this word. If any letter is marked in green, then it is in that word and is in the exact location. If the letter remains gray, then it isn't in the hidden word.
Now if you know a few letters with the exact location (green) and a few letters that are in the word (yellow) you can try to solve the hidden word and win the game!

The main goal of the game is to guess the hidden word in 6 tries. In each line, you need to enter any word from 4 to 11 letters to find out what letters are in the target word. Depending on which word you entered, the letters will be highlighted in three colors.
Color marking:
The letter isn't in the target word at all.
The letter is in the word but in the wrong spot.
The letter is in the word and in the correct spot.
To win you need to completely guess the hidden word (all letters are green).
At the beginning of the game, try to use a word without repeating letters and with as many vowels as possible, such as the word "RADIO". However, mathematician Grant Sanderson found that the best starting word is “CRANE" or “SLOTH”, which includes frequently used letters.
In American English, we use a dictionary from the Letterpress word list that includes a list of ~275,000 words. This dictionary is constantly updated with new words based on real feedback from people.
This alert message means that the given word was not found in our word bank. Try another word, or if you think the word is correct, let us know.
If you think that the hidden word is wrong or incorrect, let us know. We will definitely fix this as soon as possible.
If you want to change an incorrectly entered letter, just press the "Backspace" button, but remember that you cannot change the entered word.
At the moment we don’t have applications in App store and Google Play (in development). But you can bookmark the site and play on PC or mobile devices right in your browser.
Certainly! Just click on the icon (W+) in the top left corner, then guess any word from 4 to 11 letters (without spaces, hyphens, apostrophes) and click the "Copy Link" button. If this word is found in our word bank, the link will be copied to the clipboard and then you can easily share it on social media.
We have developed many versions of the Wordle Game for different languages and dictionaries. Now you can play in American English, UK English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Swedish, Irish, Czech, Greek, Turkish, Indonesian, and Filipino.
You can make the game harder by turning on "Hard Mode" in the settings. Then any revealed hints must be used in subsequent guesses.
Wordle is suitable for all ages. This game will be especially useful for children to develop memory and logical thinking skills. We have developed a special edition for kids with a dictionary for children up to 8th grade, and the ability to select a target word from 3 letters to 11 letters.

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Wordle is the free word game everyone on Twitter seems to be playing. Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

By this point in the pandemic, we’re all looking for something pleasant to distract us — even momentarily — from all the chaos, which may explain why the simple, no-frills game Wordle has become so popular. It’s a web-based puzzle that requires players to guess a new five-letter word every day, in six tries or less, and everyone gets the same word. You may have seen people sharing the gray, green, and yellow square patterns on Twitter, which show how they performed on that day’s Wordle without giving away the solution (more on that in a sec).

According to a lovely New York Times profile of Wordle creator and software engineer Josh Wardle (get it?), he devised the game as a gift for his partner Palak Shah, who loves word games and crossword puzzles. The pair apparently got into the NYT Spelling Bee and daily crossword games in 2020, and Wardle wanted to create a new game that Shah would like. The perceived scarcity of the game — only one puzzle per day — leaves the player wanting more.

Where do I find Wordle?

The game is web-based, so there’s no official app to download (although it’s not for lack of trying by a few copycats). You can play using a mobile or desktop browser; just go to www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/. You have until midnight, when the word resets and a new word is there for you to guess. I often start a game, leave the browser tab open, and come back later as I try to figure out the correct word.

How do I play Wordle?

Everyone has their own strategy for how they approach that first blank grid of squares. Choosing a word that has a lot of vowels as your first guess is a solid plan; once you rule out the various vowels, it narrows the word choices significantly (and no, I am not telling you my secret starting word). Type in your word and hit “Enter.”

Letters that are in the word and are in the correct spot will then turn green, letters that are in the word but in a different spot will be yellow, and letters not in the word of the day will be gray. Note that a green or yellow letter can appear in a word more than once — for example, if you get one green “a,” there could be another “a” somewhere else in the word — but you won’t necessarily know that until you play the next word. And no fake words are allowed — the game will throw you a “Not in word list” message if you try to enter AEIOU, for instance.

In the screenshot below, the keyboard shows letters you’ve guessed wrong (in other words, that are not in the word) in dark gray or black and the letters you haven’t guessed yet in light gray. You’ll know you’ve won when all the letters turn green (and a compliment like “Impressive” appears).

That R is in the right place but looks like there are no E’s in today’s Wordle. Screenshot: Wordle

Originally, Wardle didn’t create a sharing component for the game, but after seeing users on Twitter sharing their results using green, yellow, and black square emojis, he added a share button that lets you copy your results once you’ve completed the game in a way that won’t give away the day’s word to anyone who hasn’t played it yet. So in the grid below, you can see I guessed completely wrong on the first entry, got two correct letters in the right spots on the second guess, and guessed the word correctly on the third try (not bad!).

Wordle 215 3/6

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— kim lyons (@SocialKimLy) January 20, 2022

Anything else I need to know?

There’s a high contrast “color blind” version and a dark mode available; you can toggle them on using the gear symbol in the upper right corner next to the word WORDLE. If you’re really feeling lucky, you can also toggle on “Hard Mode,” which requires you to include any hints in the next word. For instance, in the first screenshot, in hard mode, I would have to include the R, the T, and the O in my third guess (so RADIO wouldn’t have worked there).

It’s worth noting that this display option can be difficult for those who use screen readers online, such as people who have low vision. Developer Cariad Eccleston, founder of antagonist.app, created a way to make your results accessible (h/t to Liam O’Dell for this tip). Paste the results you copied from the Wordle site into the translator at wa11y.co/, and you’ll get a text description of how you did. Here’s today’s description:

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Wordle 215 3/6

Line 1: Nothing.
Line 2: 4th and 5th perfect.
Line 3: Won!
— kim lyons (@SocialKimLy) January 20, 2022

Of course, since we’re on the internet, Wordle’s grids have been meme-ified, repurposed for political messaging, and many brands have tried to get in on the game’s popularity. But Wardle told the BBC he has no plans to include ads on the game and isn’t collecting or otherwise doing anything fishy with anyone’s data.

A nice thing on the internet? We deserve it.