Eldrow

Eldrow is a daily word puzzle from Take5 Games, a small site of daily games by J Krishnamurthi, whose footer dates the game from 2022. The name is Wordle spelled backwards, and so is the idea. Instead of hunting for a hidden word, you are handed the word and have to work out what guess would have produced a given row of colours.

Each puzzle shows two rows of five tiles. The bottom row is the base word, all green. The top row is the pattern you must match: green for a letter in the same place as in the base word, yellow for a letter from the base word in another place, grey for a letter that is not in it at all. On 8 November 2026 the first puzzle gave TITHE with grey, grey, green, yellow, green above it, so a word like LATTE fits.

The day brings three puzzles, the same for everyone and numbered on the header. The first is easy, and the third leans on yellow tiles, which the game counts as the hard part since those letters have to move. Many puzzles accept several words, and you only need one. There is no limit on tries. When a guess does not fit, the game shows why, tile by tile, against the pattern it should have made. You can give up on a puzzle, which reveals every accepted answer.

Solving one puzzle earns bronze, two silver and all three gold, and the start screen keeps your medal counts and streak. The result can be shared as a grid of medals. The page loads no ad network and needs no account.

It suits Wordle players who want a short daily twist on the colour rules, and anyone who likes searching their vocabulary for a word with letters in set places.