Wordish Today

How to play takes 20 seconds

Five letters, six guesses, one word that does not care about your feelings. Type any real five letter word and press Enter. The tiles answer straight away: green means the letter is exactly where it belongs, yellow means it is in the word but standing in the wrong place, grey means forget it entirely. Read the colours, narrow the field, land the word before the rows run out.

Your opening word matters more than you think

First guesses are not equal. A word packed with common letters buys information. A word packed with rare ones buys a shrug. Open with something like arise, slate or crane and you clear a lot of ground in one move. Open with jumpy and you learn, at best, that the answer contains no J, U, M, P or Y, which is about as useful as being told it is not a Tuesday.

The move that saves most games

You have a yellow letter. Every instinct says keep it where it is and change everything around it. Do the opposite. Move it, and fill the rest of the row with letters you have not tried yet. One guess, two answers.

And when you are down to a single blank with four greens locked in, do not play the coin flip. If three letters could fit, play a word that tests all three at once, even a word that cannot possibly be the answer. You spend one guess and usually save two. It feels like cheating. It is just arithmetic.

Double letters, where streaks go to die

Pupil. Otter. Abbey. The board shows you one yellow E and you spend three guesses assuming there is only one E in there. If a letter keeps coming back yellow in different columns and nothing you try fits, put it in twice. Nine times out of ten that was the whole puzzle.

One word, everyone, every day

Everybody playing on Thursday, September 3, 2026 gets the same word, which is the only reason a result is worth sending to anyone. A new one lands at midnight UTC. Your streak lives in this browser, with no account, no email and nothing to sign.