Daily Word
Guess the secret five-letter word in six tries. One fresh puzzle every day — come back to keep your streak alive.
Daily challenge
0 day streakDaily Word serves one puzzle a day, generated from the calendar date — so the board you play is the same board every other player gets. Solve it before the day is out to extend your streak. Your stats stay in this browser; there is nothing to sign up for.
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About this game
Daily Word is the once-a-day word puzzle everyone plays together: one hidden five-letter word, six guesses, and a colour clue after every try. Green means the letter is right and in the right place, amber means it's in the word but somewhere else, and grey means it isn't in the word at all. From those clues you narrow it down — the fun is in the deduction, and the challenge is doing it in as few guesses as you can. There's exactly one puzzle per day and it's the same word for everyone, so it's over quickly and worth coming back for. Solve on consecutive days to build a streak, track your win rate and guess distribution, and share your result as a spoiler-free grid of coloured squares to compare with friends. Every guess must be a real word, and a full dictionary of over fifteen thousand five-letter words is accepted, so you're never told a genuine word is invalid. Play with a real keyboard or the on-screen one, on any device — no download, no sign-up. Come back tomorrow for the next word.
Controls
Type a five-letter word and press Enter to guess.
- Use your keyboard or the on-screen keys; Backspace deletes.
- Tap the chart icon any time to see your statistics and share your result.
How to play
You have six guesses to find the hidden five-letter word.
Reading the tiles
- After each guess, each tile is coloured: green = correct letter in the correct spot, amber = letter is in the word but a different spot, grey = letter is not in the word.
- Use the clues to narrow down the answer.
The daily word
- There is one puzzle per day, the same for everyone; solve it to extend your streak, and share your coloured-grid result without spoiling the word.
- A new word unlocks at midnight.
Details
- Category
- Word
- Platform
- Web browser
- Rules
- Full rules
- Resets
- Daily at midnight
- Price
- Free
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