Daily word game
Unscramble Daily
A hidden 6-letter word and 6 guesses to find it. Same puzzle for everyone, a new one at your midnight. One letter longer than you are used to — which is harder than it sounds.
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How to play
- 1. Guess any 6-letter word and press Enter.
- 2. Each square colours in. Green means that letter is in the word and in that exact spot. Orange means it is in the word but belongs elsewhere. Grey means it is not in the word at all.
- 3. The keyboard tracks everything you have learned, so you never have to hold it in your head.
- 4. Narrow it down within 6 tries. The answer is always an everyday word.
A strategy that actually helps
At six letters, opening with a word you think might be the answer is a worse bet than it is at five. The space is bigger, so a lucky hit is less likely and the information you get back matters more. Spend the first guess on coverage instead: a word with three or four different common letters and no repeats tells you far more than a hopeful stab.
Vowel placement is the thing that cracks six-letter words. They usually carry two or three vowels, and knowing where they sit narrows the field faster than knowing which consonants are in play. If your second guess can move a known vowel to a new position, that is often worth more than testing two fresh consonants.
Six-letter words also lean heavily on a small set of endings — -ATION, -MENT, -ABLE, -ING and a plain -S. Once a green lands in the last two positions, run through those patterns before anything else; the rest of the word tends to fall out on its own.
And take the grey squares seriously. Eliminating a letter is real progress, especially on a repeated letter: a grey second E does not mean there is no E, it means there is exactly one.
Common questions
- How is this different from Wordle?
- The rules are the same shape, but the word is six letters rather than five. That one extra letter changes the game more than it sounds: there are far more six-letter words, so your opening guess narrows things down less, and the middle of the word stays uncertain for longer. Six guesses at six letters is a noticeably tighter budget.
- What do the colours mean?
- Green means that letter is in the word and in exactly that position. Orange means the letter is in the word but somewhere else. Grey means it is not in the word at all — or that you have already found every copy of it.
- Why did my repeated letter come back grey?
- Because the answer holds fewer copies of it than you guessed. If you play a word with two E's against an answer with one, the first E takes the colour and the second stays grey. And if that single E was already matched in place, both of your other copies stay grey. It is the same rule Wordle uses, and it is genuinely useful information: it tells you exactly how many of that letter the answer contains.
- Does my guess have to be a real word?
- Yes. Every guess must be a six-letter word in the tournament dictionary — the same list the site's solver uses. That is roughly 16,600 words, so it is far more permissive than everyday vocabulary, but it does stop random letter-mashing from being a strategy.
- When does the puzzle change?
- At midnight in your own timezone, not on a server clock somewhere else. Everyone playing on the same calendar date gets the same word, and your streak is kept in your browser rather than an account.
- Is there a way to play more than once a day?
- Yes. Today's puzzle is once a day — that is rather the point — but every puzzle before today is playable from the button under your result, and there are hundreds of them. Replays do not count towards your streak or stats, so working through the back catalogue cannot inflate your record. The anagram practice page has 250 scrambles from four to seven letters as well.
- Can I see previous answers?
- Yes, on the previous answers page — every word up to yesterday, with the puzzle number it belonged to. Today's is not listed, for obvious reasons.
- What does the hint do?
- It reveals one letter in its correct position, once per puzzle, and drops it into the row you are typing rather than onto the board — so you still have to find a word around it and still spend a guess doing so. A hinted result is marked with a lightbulb when you share it.
More word puzzles
Finished today and want another go? Every puzzle before today is playable from the button under your result, and previous answers lists every word up to yesterday. Anagram practice has 250 scrambles with no daily limit. And if you are stuck on a puzzle from somewhere else, the unscrambler will take any letters and give you every word they spell.