Invertle

Invertle comes from Daily Worder, a small set of hand-made word puzzles that launched as an app in April 2026, alongside Fourbe, Totum, Pyramid and Spying Bee. Its line on the page is Hone in. Upside down.

Each day there is one dated word for everyone, and the new one arrives at 5 AM US Eastern Time. The board fills from the bottom up. You type a real five-letter word, tap one column to divide, and press Enter. That column gets an arrow: up if the hidden letter is later in the alphabet, down if earlier. Every exact match, in any column, turns teal on its own, and letters that cannot be in a column are crossed out, so a small range such as A to M under each column shows what is left.

What sets it apart from Wordle and from higher-or-lower word games is the choice of where to spend each clue. You only learn about one position per guess, so the work is planning: which column to split, and which real word tests useful letters elsewhere at the same time. Guessing blindly wastes rows.

The daily puzzle is free on the web with no account. The site also has an Endless mode, and the app for iPhone and Android adds streaks, reminders and an optional paid Premium. It suits players who like a methodical, almost numeric search more than a vocabulary hunt.