How to play Word Guess
- Press Start. The empty honeycomb shows how many letters the word has and how many guesses you get.
- Type a real word of that length with your keyboard or the on-screen keys, then press Enter.
- Each letter changes color: gold (with a dot) is the right letter in the right spot, rose (with a diamond) is in the word but somewhere else, grey is not in the word.
- Use what you learned in the next guess. The keyboard remembers every letter's color.
- Find the word before you run out of guesses. Solving in half your guesses or fewer earns three stars.
About Word Guess
Word Guess is a word guessing game set in a busy beehive. A hidden word sits in the honeycomb, and you have a handful of guesses to find it. Type any real word of the right length and press Enter: each letter turns gold when it is in exactly the right spot, rose when the word contains it somewhere else, and grey when the word does not use it at all. Gold letters also carry a small dot and rose letters a small diamond, so the clues never depend on color alone. The keyboard keeps score as you go, coloring every letter you have tried. Levels begin with friendly four-letter words and seven guesses, move up to five letters, then six, and the final chapter switches on hard mode, where every gold letter must stay in place and every rose letter must be used again. Stuck? The bee hint shows one letter in its spot for the price of a star. A new five-letter daily word arrives every midnight, the same for every player, with a spoiler-free result to share.
Controls
| Input | What it does |
|---|---|
| Letter keys | Type a letter |
| Enter | Submit your guess |
| Backspace | Delete a letter |
| ? or the bulb | Bee hint: reveal one letter (costs a star) |
| Pause, restart | Use the buttons above the hive |
Tips and strategy
- Open with common letters. A first guess that uses E, A, R, T, O or S in different places tells you far more than a word with rare letters like J or Q.
- Do not repeat grey letters. Every guess is a chance to test new letters, so leave the grey ones on the keyboard alone until you are sure of the answer.
- Move rose letters around. A rose letter is in the word but not where you put it, so try it in a new spot each time to pin it down.
- Think about letter pairs. English loves endings like ER, ING, ED and LY and openings like ST, CH and TR, which narrow the options quickly.
- Watch for double letters. Words like APPLE, GRASS and COFFEE hide repeated letters, and a single gold or rose P does not rule out a second one.
- In hard mode, plan two guesses ahead. You must keep every gold letter and reuse every rose one, so a careless guess can lock you into a dead end.
Questions and answers
Which words are allowed as guesses?
Any word in the ENABLE word list, a large public-domain list of English words used in many word games. Answers are hand-picked common words, never obscure ones.
How do repeated letters work?
Each letter in your guess is matched against the answer only as many times as it appears there. If you guess a word with two Es and the answer has one, only one E lights up.
What is hard mode?
In the last chapter every gold letter must stay in its spot and every rose letter must appear in your next guesses. The game tells you if a guess breaks the rule.
How do stars work?
Solve in half your guesses or fewer for three stars, with a guess to spare for two, and on the last guess for one. Using the bee hint takes away a star.
When does the daily word change?
At midnight on your own clock. Everyone gets the same five-letter word on the same day, and the shared result shows only colors, never letters.
Do I need an account?
No. Word Guess runs in your browser on phones, tablets and computers, and your stars and daily streak are saved on your device.
