Woodle

About Woodle

Woodle is a daily word-guessing game built on Mastermind-style feedback. As in Wordle you are hunting for one hidden word, but the game never colours your letters. After each guess it shows two counts instead: how many letters are correct and in the right spot, and how many are in the word but in the wrong spot.

Each day has a numbered puzzle, the same for every player, in two sizes: a five-letter daily challenge and an easier four-letter one. Practice modes in both sizes let you play as many extra words as you like.

There is no limit on guesses; the aim is to crack the word in as few as possible. To keep track of your reasoning you can tap letters in your past guesses and on the keyboard to colour them yourself, marking which ones you think are right, misplaced or absent.

Woodle suits Wordle players who want more deduction and less luck, and fans of Mastermind or bulls and cows. It runs in the browser and shows ads.

How to play Woodle

1. Open play.woodle.today and pick the five-letter or four-letter daily challenge.
2. Type a real word and press enter.
3. Read the two counts: letters in the right place, and letters in the word but misplaced.
4. Tap letters to colour them as your own notes about what each count means.
5. Keep guessing until you find the word, in as few tries as you can.

Tips

• Guesses that share most letters with an earlier one isolate which letters changed the counts.
• A guess that scores zero on both counts rules out all of its letters at once.
• Warm up on the four-letter daily before the five-letter one.

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