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Word to your Mother

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Read a Wordle board of coloured clues and find every five-letter word that still fits, as fast as you can.

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on w2ym.org

Word to your Mother daily game #538: clue words ABASE and POSIT, the found answer UNPIN with its hint colours, and two answers still to find

Word to your Mother turns Wordle's end game into the whole puzzle. Each board shows coloured clue words, the way a Wordle grid looks part way through, and tells you exactly how many answers still fit. Your job is to find all of them; in normal mode each correct word adds hints, and hard mode takes those hints away.

About Word to your Mother

Word to your Mother (W2YM) is a free daily word game designed and coded by Jeremy Bornstein. Its idea comes from Wordall, which itself grew out of Wordle: instead of hunting for one hidden word, you see a board of clues and must list every word that is consistent with it.

Each numbered daily board shows letters coloured as in Wordle, green for the right place, yellow for in the word but elsewhere, and grey for absent. The game tells you how many words fit, for example exactly four, and you type five-letter words to find them. Only words that break the board's rules count against you; real but obscure words that fit earn credit as bonus words.

In normal mode, the words you have already found are coloured to give hints about the remaining answers. Hard mode shows them in a single colour, which is closer to the reasoning you need in Wordle itself. Your times are recorded for the daily, hard mode and other games, each board has its own leaderboard of times, and finishing the daily on consecutive days builds a streak shown beside the game number. The day changes at midnight UTC, and one missed day per streak is forgiven.

Besides the daily board there are unlimited random games and a new board every ten minutes. It suits Wordle players who enjoy the deduction of the last few guesses.

How to play Word to your Mother

  1. Open w2ym.org: the daily board loads with its number under the title.
  2. Read the clue words: grey letters are in none of the answers, yellow letters are in every answer but not in that spot, green letters are in every answer in that spot.
  3. Note the line under the clues that says exactly how many words fit the board.
  4. Type a five-letter word that obeys every clue and press Enter; a word that breaks a clue counts against you, a fitting rare word counts as a bonus word.
  5. In normal mode, read the colours on the words you have found for hints about the answers left, and keep going until you have found them all.

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Tips

  • Fix the green letters first and list the vowels that are still allowed.
  • Remember a yellow letter must appear, but not in the position shown.
  • Switch to hard mode once the normal hints feel too easy.
  • A wrong word costs nothing but time when it fits the clues, so try a rare word if it fits: it counts as a bonus.
  • Today's answers share every green letter, so write the pattern out (for example ...I.) and fill in the gaps with the letters still allowed.

Questions

Is there a daily game?

Yes. There is one numbered daily board, the same for everyone, plus unlimited random games and a new decaleptical board every ten minutes.

What time does Word to your Mother reset?

At midnight UTC, not at your local midnight.

What is hard mode?

Your found words are shown in a single colour, so they give no extra hints about the remaining answers.

Do obscure words count?

Yes. Less common words that fit the board count as bonus words; you win by finding the target words.

Is it free?

Yes. It plays free in the browser with no sign-up and no ads.

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