Pixletters

Pixletters is a word guessing game by Michal Gorny, who publishes as Nebula Bytes and also made Betweenle. It plays in the browser and as a free app for iPhone, iPad and Android, and its daily words have been numbered since late 2022.

It follows the Wordle pattern of guessing a five-letter word, but the feedback is drawn rather than spelled. Every letter is made of dots on a small grid, like an old display board. A letter in the right spot turns blue. For a wrong letter, the game colours the top row of its dots: green for a dot the hidden letter must have, red for one it must not have, and grey for dots still unknown. Each new guess colours one more row, so you work out the answer from strokes and curves rather than from which letters appear in the word.

The Daily Words menu holds three shared words a day. In 5 Letters the rows fill from the top. In 5 Letters Plus an arrow over each spot says whether rows or columns are revealed and from which side, and in 5 Letters Pro only one row or column is coloured each time. A countdown shows when the next words arrive, and a Play mode gives unlimited practice words. The apps add six-letter words.

It suits Wordle players who want a puzzle closer to a visual logic problem than a vocabulary test, and anyone who likes reasoning from partial information.