Statistics:
Guess the word in 1 minute.
Each of your guesses must be a real 5-letter (5L) word. Submit your guess using the enter button. After each guess, the tiles will change color to show whether the letters in your guess are correct.
- Green: the letter is in the correct spot.
- Yellow: the letter is in the solution, but in the wrong spot.
- Gray: the letter is not in the solution.
The number in the left shows the number of remaining possibilities.
You have 8 guesses and 1 minute to get a word. Good luck!
For example…
“Y” is in the 5th spot.
“I” is in the 1st / 3rd / 4th spot.
“R” is in the 1st / 2nd / 4th spot.
“D” “T” are not present in any spot.
Thus, there are 8 possible solutions: rainy / fairy / hairy / ivory / grimy / irony / privy / briny.
When you reload the page, it will automatically resume the previous game.
The first guess is chosen at random. It can never be 5 greens or 5 grays.
When you type the 5th letter, the word will change color to
- red if the word is invalid;
- blue if the word is valid but can’t be the solution;
- black if the word can be the solution.
Repeated letters:
Entering a word with the same letters, such as Green, will give a little special result.
If the solution is Tease & the input is Green, there are 2 e's in both the solution & input. In this case, both e's will be yellow.
If the solution is Exact, which has only one e, only the first e will be yellow.
In short, the repeated letters will be yellow or green up to the number included in the solution.
Technical information:
Plural nouns, 3rd-person singular verbs, and past tense verbs can be guessed, but never be solutions.
There are 6,443,492 possible initial states. Among them, there are 66,590 patterns (about 1%) which have only one possible solution.
History:
22/Sep: Created.23/Apr: Now it displays the # of remaining words.
23/Jul: Made the first guess random. It can't be the solution, so there's no "hole in one" anymore.
23/Dec: Expanded the word list from 2315 to 2400.
24/Sep: Now it guarantees at least one yellow or green on the first guess.
24/Sep: Added the time limit! Players must solve in 60 seconds.
25/Nov: Added the start button. Changed the number of guesses from six to eight.
25/Dec: Expanded the solution list to 2885 words. The word lists for 4L/6L versions have been changed as well. The words are categorized into 4 grades. Easier words appear more frequently. When you type the 5th letter, the color of the letters will change: red means the word is invalid; blue means the word is valid but can’t be the solution.