Wordle is a daily five letter word puzzle: six tries, one hidden word, and color-coded feedback after every guess. It takes thirty seconds to learn and, fair warning, tends to become a morning ritual.
The rules in 60 seconds
- Open the daily puzzle. A new word drops at midnight in your time zone; everyone worldwide gets the same one.
- Enter any valid five letter word as your first guess.
- Read the tiles: green = right letter, right spot. yellow = right letter, wrong spot. Grey = not in the word at all.
- Refine. Keep greens where they are, move yellows somewhere new, never reuse greys.
- Solve within six tries: then share your spoiler free grid.
What the colors really mean
Green is a lock: that letter never moves again. Yellow is a promise: the letter is in the word, just elsewhere. Grey is a door closed: with one subtle exception: if a letter appears twice in your guess and only one turns yellow or green, the word contains it exactly once. Beginners lose streaks to that rule more than any other.
Hard mode, explained
Hard mode forces you to reuse every confirmed (green or yellow) letter in all later guesses. It removes the "sacrifice guess", a throwaway word used purely to test new letters. It makes the game tougher but trains genuinely better habits.
5 mistakes every beginner makes
- Reusing grey letters. Every repeated grey is a wasted information slot.
- Ignoring yellow repositioning. A yellow letter must move, guessing it in the same column again teaches you nothing.
- Forgetting double letters. About 15% of answers repeat a letter; don't assume five unique characters.
- Guessing obscure words early. Test common letters first; save the exotic vocabulary for the endgame.
- Not checking past answers. Wordle rarely repeats, skim our archive before you lock in a guess.
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