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A wordle game you can play right here, free. This is Word Guess, an original GameOLL word game. A hidden five letter word is waiting. You get six guesses to find it. After every guess, the tiles change colour and point you closer. Green is the right letter in the right spot. Yellow is close, but in the wrong spot. Gray is not in the word at all.
Play the Daily Word for the same puzzle everyone else gets today, and build a winning streak that grows day after day. Or jump into Free Play for endless random 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
- Daily Word and Free Play
- 7 strategies that win games
- Word Guess FAQ
- Final verdict
How to play Word Guess
The rules take ten seconds to learn. The fun is in the detective work.
- Press Daily Word for the puzzle of the day, or Free Play for a random word. A fresh board of six rows appears.
- Type a five letter word. Use your real keyboard, or tap the letters on the board keyboard. Press Enter to lock the guess in.
- Every guess must be a real word from the game word list. If the game says a word is not in the list, the row is not used up. Just edit it and try another word.
- Read the colours. Green tiles are locked in. Yellow letters belong in the word, but one row over. Gray letters are out. The board keyboard colours itself too, so you always know which letters are still alive.
- Find the word in six guesses or fewer to win the round. Run out of rows and the game shows you the word, so you learn it for next time.
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. Learn to read them fast and the game slows down in your favour.
| Colour | What it means | What to do next |
|---|---|---|
| Green | The letter is in the word, in exactly this spot | Keep it there in every later guess |
| Yellow | The letter is in the word, but in a different spot | Move it to a new spot in your next guess |
| Gray | The letter is not in the word at all | Stop using it, unless the double letter rule says otherwise |
Say the hidden word is CRANE and your first guess is TRACE. The T turns gray, so T is out. The R, A and E all turn green, because each one sits in exactly the right spot. The C turns yellow: it is in the word, but it does not belong in the fourth spot. One guess in, you know three letters for certain, a fourth letter is close, and only the first spot is still a mystery. That is the power of a good opener.
The double letter rule
This is the one rule that trips up new players, so here it is in plain words. A letter only lights up as many times as it appears in the secret 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 the hidden word is ABBEY and you guess BABES. ABBEY has two Bs, and both of them light up. Here is the guess, tile by tile:
| Your letter | Colour | Why |
|---|---|---|
| B | Yellow | B is in ABBEY, but not in the first spot |
| A | Yellow | A is in ABBEY, but it belongs in the first spot |
| B | Green | The second B matches the third letter of ABBEY exactly |
| E | Green | E matches the fourth letter of ABBEY exactly |
| S | Gray | There is no S in ABBEY |
Now flip it around. If the hidden word had only one B, the first B in your guess would still light up, but the second B would stay gray. A gray tile does not always mean the letter is out. It can mean you already found every copy of it. Keep that in mind before you throw a letter away for good.
Daily Word and Free Play
Daily Word is the main event. Everyone who plays on the same day gets the same hidden word. Finish it 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, do not worry: your daily board is saved, and your guesses are right where you left them when you come back.
Free Play is the training ground and the time killer. Every round deals a fresh random word, and you can play 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 test new opening words and sharpen your colour reading, then bring that form to the Daily Word.
Your full record lives in the game panel: games played, wins, win rate, current streak, best streak, and a guess distribution that shows how often you solve the word in one, two, three, four, five or six tries. It all saves in your own browser. Nothing is uploaded, and no account is needed.
7 strategies that win games
- Open with vowels and common letters. A great first word tests three vowels and two busy consonants at once. Words like ADIEU, AUDIO, CRANE and SLATE cover a lot of ground in a single row.
- Make guess two all new letters. Unless guess one hit big, spend guess two on five fresh letters. Ten tested letters after two rows beats five tested letters and a hunch.
- Never move a green tile. A green letter is a fact. Build every later guess around it, in the same spot, and let the other letters rotate.
- Park yellows somewhere new. A yellow letter must move. If you leave it in the same spot, you waste a tile learning nothing. Shift it at least one space, every time.
- Think about doubles from guess three. Words love repeated letters: EERIE, ABBEY, SASSY, LEVEL. If the board is nearly full and one letter could repeat, try the repeat before you run out of rows.
- Spend a guess to buy information. Stuck between three possible words that differ by one letter? A guess that tests two of those letters at once can settle it, even when the guess itself cannot win.
- Protect the streak late. On guess five or six of the Daily Word, play the most likely word, not the most clever one. A plain win keeps the streak. A fancy loss ends it.
Is Word Guess 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 and your daily board stay in your browser only.
Word Guess is an original game made by GameOLL, built in the style of the five letter guessing games players love. The word list, the daily picks 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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Word Guess FAQ
Is Word Guess free to play?
Yes. Word Guess 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?
Six. Each guess must be a real five letter word, and the tiles change colour after every guess to show how close you are.
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 the word at all.
How do double letters work?
A letter only lights up as many times as it appears in the secret word. If the word has one E and your guess has two, only one of them can turn green or yellow. The other stays gray.
When does the daily word change?
At midnight, your local time. Everyone gets the same daily word, and a new one arrives every day. Finish it to grow your streak, then come back tomorrow.
Can I play Word Guess on my phone?
Yes. Tap the on screen keyboard to type, or use your real keyboard on a laptop or desktop PC. The game saves your stats and streak in your browser.
Final verdict: should you play Word Guess?
Yes — if you like small puzzles with real tension. Word Guess is free, instant and honest: no download, no account, no tricks. One word a day sounds tiny, but the streak turns it into a ritual, and Free Play is always there when one word is not enough. Your record saves between visits, so the board is waiting. Take your six guesses, and mind the double letters.
▶ Play Word Guess 🎮 See All Free GamesLast updated: November 4, 2026. Word Guess v1.0 — the first release of our original word guessing game, with a daily word for everyone, endless Free Play rounds, streaks, full stats and the classic double letter rule. An original GameOLL browser game. Found a bug? Tell us in the comments and we will fix it in the next version.
