Wordit

The basics

Wordit gives you six attempts to identify a hidden five-letter word. Type any valid five-letter English word and press Enter to lock in your guess. The moment you submit, each tile flips over to reveal how close that letter was to the answer, and the on-screen keyboard updates to match so you never have to remember what you have already ruled out.

A green tile means the letter is correct and sits in exactly the right position. A yellow tile means the letter appears somewhere in the answer but you have placed it in the wrong column. A dark grey tile means that letter does not appear in the answer at all, and you can safely drop it from consideration for the rest of the round.

One puzzle a day, shared by everyone

The answer is not random. Wordit derives the daily word from the calendar date itself, which means every player in the world opens the game to the same puzzle on the same day. There is no server call and no account required — the puzzle number is computed locally from the date, so the game loads instantly and works even on a flaky mobile connection.

A new word unlocks at local midnight. Your board, your streak and your statistics are stored privately in your own browser, so you can close the tab mid-guess and return later to exactly where you left off. Clearing your browser data will reset those statistics, since nothing is ever uploaded anywhere.

Strategy that actually moves the needle

Strong openers matter more than most players expect. A first guess packed with common letters and multiple distinct vowels — words along the lines of CRANE, SLATE, AUDIO or ROAST — reliably eliminates a large slice of the dictionary in a single move. Avoid repeating a letter in your opening word; a duplicate spends one of your five slots on information you could have gathered anyway.

From the second guess onward, resist the urge to immediately lock in every green you have found. When three or four candidate words remain and they differ by only one letter, a deliberate "probe" guess that tests several of those competing letters at once is often worth more than a lucky stab at the answer. Trading one guess for certainty is what separates a comfortable four-guess finish from a nail-biting sixth-row escape.

Watch for repeated letters in the answer as well. Words such as BERRY, ALLOW and SHEEP catch out players who assume each letter appears only once, and the keyboard colouring alone will not always make a double letter obvious.

Streaks and sharing

Finishing the daily puzzle extends your streak by one. Missing a day resets it to zero, which is exactly the pressure that keeps the habit alive. The statistics panel tracks games played, win percentage, current streak, maximum streak and a guess-distribution histogram showing how often you solve on each row.

When you finish, the share button copies a spoiler-free emoji grid to your clipboard — coloured squares only, never the letters — so you can post your result anywhere without ruining the puzzle for anyone who has not played yet. On mobile the native share sheet opens directly to your messaging apps.