Word Game
Find the five-letter English word in six guesses. Use the colour clues, solve the daily word or play another random round.
In the Word Game, you are looking for a five-letter English word. You have six guesses. After each submission, the colours show which letters belong in the answer and whether they are already in the right positions.
Understanding the colours
- Green: the letter is in the correct position.
- Yellow: the letter appears in the word, but in a different position.
- Grey: no further matching occurrence of this letter remains in the answer.
That last distinction matters for repeated letters. If the answer contains only one E and you guess two Es, one of those squares can turn grey. Correct positions are checked first, followed by the remaining occurrences.
Entering and checking a guess
Use the on-screen keyboard or your own keyboard. “Check” or Enter submits a guess. Backspace deletes a letter you have not submitted yet. The English version uses the letters A–Z and a QWERTY keyboard.
The game currently checks the length and the colour matches, but does not check every guessed letter sequence against a dictionary. Answers come from a built-in English word list. You can submit an unusual sequence, but it still uses a guess.
The daily word
Everyone playing in English on the same Berlin calendar day gets the same word. Your submitted guesses are saved locally in this browser, so reloading does not reset the daily round. Free play chooses a random word and lets you start as many new rounds as you like.
The English and German word games use separate answer lists, saved guesses and statistics. Switching language therefore opens that language’s puzzle rather than carrying guesses into a different answer.
After finishing a daily round, you can share your result as a coloured grid without revealing the answer. Depending on your browser, this opens its sharing function or copies the result. A result is only shared when you choose to do so.
Tips for your next guesses
Start with varied letters to gather more information. Keep green positions as anchors and try yellow letters elsewhere. When several words could fit, testing new letters may be more useful than changing just one position.
These suggestions do not guarantee a solution within six guesses. If you prefer numbers, try Sudoku. Find all the other free games under All games.
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