Wordly

About Wordly

Wordly plays the same loop as Wordle, guess, read the colours, narrow it down, but with six-letter words instead of five. Everyone gets the same word each day and has six guesses. Every guess must be a valid six-letter word; an unrecognised word is turned away without using up a row.

Green means a letter is in the word and in the right spot, yellow means it is in the word but elsewhere, and grey means it is not in the word at all. Each tile is judged on its own, so a doubled letter can come back green, yellow and grey at once, never more times than the answer holds it. Easy mode lets you guess freely; Hard mode, toggled before your first guess, makes you keep greens in place and move yellows.

Wordly is one of the daily games on Greatest Games, a site of word and logic puzzles. A new puzzle goes up every day at midnight US Eastern, the same for everyone, and it plays free in the browser with no account or download. A free account opens the Wordly archive of every past puzzle by date.

How to play Wordly

1. Open Wordly on greatest.games.
2. Type any valid six-letter word and press Enter.
3. Read the colours: green is the right spot, yellow is in the word elsewhere, grey is not in the word.
4. Use the clues to choose your next guess.
5. Find the word within six tries.

Tips

• Six-letter words often end in -ER, -ED, -LY or -NG; test common endings early.
• Use your first two guesses to cover as many different vowels as you can.
• Watch for doubled letters, which are more common in longer words.
• Turn on Hard mode before your first guess if you want the extra challenge.

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