SteppedUpdle

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Four Wordles a day, from 4 letters up to 7, sharing 20 guesses.

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SteppedUpdle Stage 1: an empty four-letter grid with stages for 5, 6 and 7 letters below and 20 guesses remaining

SteppedUpdle is Wordle in four steps. You solve a four-letter word, then a five, a six and a seven, one after another, with Wordle's colour feedback. All four share a single pool of 20 guesses, so a quick solve early leaves more for the long words.

About SteppedUpdle

SteppedUpdle takes the Wordle board and builds a staircase out of it. The day's puzzle has four stages, a 4-letter word, then 5, 6 and 7 letters, shown as cards down the page. Only the current stage is open; the next one unlocks when you solve it.

Each guess is marked with the familiar colours for letters in the right place, in the word but elsewhere, or absent. The twist is the budget: instead of six tries per word you have 20 guesses for the whole day, counted at the bottom of the screen. Spend too many on the short word and the seven-letter one gets tight.

A new puzzle appears every day at midnight, the same for everyone, and stats sit behind the icon in the corner. It plays free in the browser with an on-screen keyboard.

How to play SteppedUpdle

Open steppedupdle.com; Stage 1 is a four-letter word.
Type a guess and press Enter; the tiles show which letters are right, misplaced or absent.
Solve the word to unlock the next stage, one letter longer.
Work through 4, 5, 6 and 7 letters, all from the same 20 guesses.
Finish all four before the guesses run out, then check your stats.

Screenshots

SteppedUpdle Stage 1 after a first guess, STAR, with T marked in the word but misplaced and 19 guesses remaining

Tips

Be efficient on the short words: every guess saved there helps on the seven-letter one.
Use common letters early in each stage: E, A, R, S, T and N cover a lot.
Longer words often end in -ING, -ED, -ER or -S: test endings early.
Keep a mental note of letters you have ruled out in earlier stages; they may still appear in later words.