Genre
Word · Puzzle
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Pick the Daily Quad, or jump into Free Play for endless rounds.
🟩 Right letter, right spot • 🟨 In the word, wrong spot • ⬜ Not in that board’s word • One guess paints all four boards
One word game is a warm-up. Four at once is the real test. Quad Word is a free quordle game you can play right here in your browser. Four hidden five letter words sit on four boards. You get nine guesses, and every guess is scored on all four boards at the same time. Solve all four before the guesses run out and you win the quad.
Play the Daily Quad for the same four words everyone else gets today, and build a winning streak that grows day after day. Or jump into Free Play for endless fresh sets of four words whenever you like. No download. No sign-up. It works on your phone and your PC, and your stats save in your browser.
Genre
Word · Puzzle
Players
1 Player
Platform
Browser · Mobile · PC
Price
Free
In this guide
- How to play
- The letter colours, explained
- The double letter rule
- Scoring, point by point
- Daily Quad and Free Play
- 7 strategies that win quads
- Quad Word FAQ
- Final verdict
How to play Quad Word
The rules are the ones you already know from five letter word games, stretched across four boards at once. The thinking is four times as deep.
- Press Daily Quad for the set of the day, or Free Play for four random words. Four boards appear, each hiding its own five letter word.
- Type a five letter word. Use your real keyboard, or tap the letters on the board keyboard. Press Enter to lock the guess in.
- Your guess lands on all four boards at once. Each board colours its own row, because each board hides a different word. The same letter can be green on one board and gray on the next.
- Every guess must be a real word from the game word list. If the game says a word is not in the list, the guess is not used up. Just edit it and try another word.
- When a guess matches a board word exactly, that board is solved. It locks in green, stops taking new rows, and pays out its points at once.
- Solve all four boards inside nine guesses to win. Run out of guesses with a board still open and the game shows you the words you missed.
Controls for phone and PC
| Action | Phone / tablet | PC / laptop |
|---|---|---|
| Type a letter | Tap a letter on the board keyboard | Press the letter key |
| Delete a letter | Tap the ⌫ key | Press Backspace |
| Submit a guess | Tap ENTER | Press Enter |
| Sound on or off | Tap the speaker button | Click the speaker button |
| See the rules again | Tap How to play | Click How to play |
The letter colours, explained
Every tile tells you one of three things about the board it sits on. Read all four boards together and the picture builds fast.
| Colour | What it means | What to do next |
|---|---|---|
| Green | The letter is in this board word, in exactly this spot | Keep it there in every later guess for this board |
| Yellow | The letter is in this board word, but in a different spot | Move it to a new spot in your next guess |
| Gray | The letter is not in this board word at all | It may still live on another board, so check before you drop it |
Say one board hides PLANT and your first guess is CRANE. On that board the C, R and E turn gray. The A turns green, because it sits in the third spot on both words. The N turns green too. One guess in, that board is nearly open. The same guess tells a different story on the other three boards, and that is the whole game: one word, four answers.
The keyboard under the boards keeps score for you. It shows the best colour each letter has earned on any board. Green beats yellow, and yellow beats gray. A letter that is gray on three boards but green on the fourth stays green on the keyboard, because it still has work to do.
The double letter rule
This rule works per board, and it is the one that trips up new players. A letter only lights up as many times as it appears in that board word. Green tiles are claimed first. Then yellow tiles are handed out, one by one, until the word runs out of that letter. Any extra copies stay gray.
Say a board hides ABBEY and you guess BABES. ABBEY holds two Bs, so both Bs in your guess light up: the first one yellow, the second one green. The A turns yellow, the E turns green, and the S stays gray. Now picture a board word with only one B. The first B would still light up, but the second B would stay gray on that board. A gray tile does not always mean the letter is out. It can mean you already found every copy of it on that board.
Scoring, point by point
Quad Word pays for solved boards, and it pays more for fast solves. The maths is simple and it never changes mid-game.
| Event | Points |
|---|---|
| Solving a board on guess 1 | 800 |
| Solving a board on guess 5 | 600 |
| Solving a board on guess 9 | 400 |
| All four boards solved (Quad Bonus) | +250 |
| Best possible score | 3,150 |
Every solved board pays a flat 400 points, plus 50 points for each guess you did not need. Solve a board on guess 1 and it pays 400 plus 8 times 50, which is 800. Solve it on the last guess and it pays the flat 400. Finish all four boards and a 250 point Quad Bonus lands on top. The top score of 3,150 comes from solving the four boards on guesses one, two, three and four. Your best score saves in your browser, next to your streak and your full record.
Daily Quad and Free Play
As a quordle game should, Quad Word gives everyone the same four words each day in Daily Quad mode. The set is picked by the date, so your friends are solving the exact same boards you are. Finish the daily set and your streak grows by one. Miss a day, or run out of guesses, and the streak starts again from zero. Your best streak is saved, so there is always a record to chase. If you close the page mid-game, your daily guesses are saved too, and all four boards are right where you left them.
Free Play deals four fresh random words every round, as many rounds as you like. Free Play wins and losses count toward your played games, your win rate and your guess distribution, but they never touch your daily streak. Use Free Play to train your opening words and your board reading, then bring that form to the Daily Quad.
Your full record lives in the game panel: games played, wins, win rate, current streak, best streak, best score, and a guess distribution that shows how often you clear the quad in four, five, six, seven, eight or nine guesses. It all saves in your own browser. Nothing is uploaded, and no account is needed.
7 strategies that win quads
- Open with two scouting words. Your first two guesses should test ten different letters, heavy on vowels. Words like ADIEU, AUDIO, CRANE and SLATE cover ground on all four boards at once.
- Read boards, not letters. After each guess, scan board by board. Ask which board is closest to solved, and let that board lead your next guess.
- Finish a board when it opens up. A board with three or four greens is one good guess from paying out. Take the points and the freed brain space, then work the harder boards.
- Trust the keyboard colours. The keyboard shows the best result per letter across all four boards. A green key still belongs in play somewhere, even if it is gray on the board you are staring at.
- Watch doubles on every board. Each board counts its own copies. A letter can be used up on one board and still be doubled on another. Keep a small note in your head per board.
- Spend mid-game guesses on information. Stuck between two words on one board? A guess that tests both split letters can settle two boards at once, even when it cannot solve either.
- Count down from guess seven. With three guesses left, stop exploring. Play the most likely word for the most open board, one board at a time, and bring the quad home.
Is Quad Word free and safe to play?
Yes. The game is free. It runs fully inside this page. It asks for no name, no email and no account. It installs nothing on your device. Your stats, your streaks, your best score and your daily boards stay in your browser only.
Quad Word is an original game made by GameOLL. The four board format, the word list, the daily sets, the scoring and the streak system are its own. If a word you love is missing from the list, tell us in the comments and we will look at adding it.
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Quad Word FAQ
Is Quad Word free to play?
Yes. Quad Word is 100% free. You play it right on this page. There is no download, no sign-up and no payment.
How many guesses do I get in Quad Word?
Nine. Every guess goes to all four boards at once, and each board colours its own tiles. Solve all four boards inside the nine guesses to win.
What do the tile colours mean?
Green means the letter is in the word and in the right spot. Yellow means the letter is in the word but in the wrong spot. Gray means the letter is not in that board word at all. A letter can be green on one board and gray on another.
How does the keyboard decide a letter colour?
The keyboard shows the best result for each letter across all four boards. Green beats yellow, and yellow beats gray, so one strong board is enough to light a letter up.
How does scoring work in Quad Word?
Every board you solve pays 400 points plus 50 points for each guess you did not need. Solve all four boards and you earn a 250 point Quad Bonus on top. Your best score saves in your browser.
Can I play Quad Word on my phone?
Yes. The four boards sit in a two by two grid that fits a phone screen in portrait. Tap the on screen keyboard to type, or use your real keyboard on a laptop or desktop PC.
Final verdict: should you play Quad Word?
Yes — if one word a day stopped feeling like a challenge. Quad Word is free, instant and honest: no download, no account, no tricks. Four boards force real planning, the nine guess limit keeps the pressure on, and the Daily Quad turns the whole thing into a streak worth protecting. Your record saves between visits, so the boards are waiting. Take your nine guesses, and mind the double letters on every board.
▶ Play Quad Word 🎮 See All Free GamesLast updated: November 5, 2026. Quad Word v1.0 — the first release of our original four board word game, with a daily set of four words for everyone, endless Free Play rounds, exact scoring, streaks and full stats. An original GameOLL browser game. Found a bug? Tell us in the comments and we will fix it in the next version.
