Sortle

Sortle hides one 5-letter word a day, the same for everyone in the world from the UTC date, and numbers each puzzle (No. 302 fell on 29 October 2026, so the count began on 1 January 2026). You have 8 guesses, and each must be a real 5-letter word.

The feedback is different from Wordle's. There are no positional colours. Instead each guess gives two signals: order and overlap. Order says whether your guess sits before the secret in the dictionary, so the answer is later, or after it, so the answer is earlier. Overlap counts how many of your letters appear in the secret in any position, with duplicates counted only as often as they appear in both, and the game names the shared letters. An alphabetical window at the top narrows as your guesses close in from both sides. It also counts how many allowed words are still inside it.

After your fifth guess the game reveals one letter of the secret, though not where it goes. Solve the 5-letter word and that day's 6- and 7-letter words open, each with 8 guesses of its own.

A hard mode forces each new guess to stay inside the window your earlier guesses set. Practice mode is a short walkthrough with a known secret, MANGO. The archive holds the last 30 UTC days, there is a streak counter, and the result card you share leaves out the shared letters.