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Daily Word is a daily word game: you get six tries to guess a five-letter word and, after each try, colours tell you which letters are in place, which are in the word elsewhere and which aren’t there. There’s one word a day, the same for everyone playing in English.
How to play
Controls
- Type
- On-screen keyboard or yours
- Send
- Enter
- Delete
- Backspace or the ⌫ key
- Share
- “Share” button: copies a colour grid without the word
Rules
- Type a real five-letter word and send it: it has to be in the game’s word list.
- Green: the letter is in that spot. Yellow: it’s in the word, in another spot. Grey: it isn’t in the word.
- If a letter appears twice in your guess but once in the answer, only one of them is marked.
- You have six tries. At the end you see the word, your stats and the countdown to the next one.
- The word changes at midnight your local time. If you reload, your game picks up where it was.
Tips
- Open with a word that has several vowels and common consonants, like “raise” or “stone”.
- Use what you know: don’t reuse grey letters and move yellow ones to new spots.
- Answers can repeat letters: when you’re stuck, try a double letter.
Common mistakes
- Reusing letters that already came back grey: every try should test new letters or place the yellow ones.
- Leaving a yellow letter in the same spot: you already know it doesn’t go there.
- Ruling out double letters: the answer can have the same letter twice.
- Rushing the last try: look at all the clues together before sending it.
Mechanics
The tags that describe Daily Word. Those with a page lead to similar games.
FAQ
- Is the word the same for everyone?
- Yes: it depends only on the date and the language, so everyone playing in English that day gets the same one.
- Can I play more than once a day?
- One game a day per language. For more words, try Hangman.
- Is my streak saved?
- Yes, in your browser: games, wins, current and best streak and which try you won on.