The rules
Each day there’s a new five-letter code. You have six guesses to work out what it is. Type a word and press Enter to submit.
After each guess, the tiles change colour to give you clues:
- A green tile means that letter is in the code, and it’s in the right place.
- A yellow tile means that letter is in the code, but it’s in the wrong place.
- A grey tile means that letter is not in the code at all.
If a letter appears more than once in your guess but only once in the code, only the first matching position is highlighted.
Tips
- Start with a word that uses five different common letters
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crane,slate,audioare popular openers). - Use the on-screen keyboard to track which letters you’ve ruled out.
- The code is always a real word in British English.
Streaks and stats
Your streak is kept on this device only. We don’t have user accounts, and we don’t sync your progress across devices. Clear your browser storage and you start over.
Cryptogram
The cryptogram is a different shape of puzzle. A short quote has been encoded by swapping every letter for a different one — the same way every time. Your job is to work out which letter stands for which.
- Click on any letter slot to highlight all instances of that cipher letter, then type your guess. All matching slots fill at once.
- Use Tab to move between cipher letters, and Backspace to clear a guess.
- The “Reveal a letter” button gives you one correct letter for free if you get stuck.
The cryptogram resets every day with a new quote.
Anagram
The anagram shows you five letters from a hidden five-letter word, in a scrambled order. You have three guesses to work out the original word.
- Type your guess in the input and press Submit (or Enter).
- The “Reveal a letter” button locks one letter into its real position — useful when you’re stuck.
- Use Shuffle if the current arrangement isn’t sparking anything; it scrambles the letters into a different order without costing a guess.
The anagram shares its word list with the daily Wordle, but the two never use the same answer on the same day.
Codeword
The codeword is a 5×5 grid filled with crossing words. Every letter has been replaced with a number from 1 to 26 — the same number always means the same letter. One starter is revealed for free.
- Tap a cell to highlight every cell sharing its number, then tap a key to assign a letter to that number.
- All cells with that number update at once. Each letter can only be assigned to one number, so picking a duplicate clears the previous assignment automatically.
- Press Enter to skip to the next unfilled number; ⌫ clears the current cell.
You’ve solved it when every number is filled in correctly and all five rows and all five columns spell real words.
Crossword
The crossword is a 5×5 mini with five across clues and five down clues. Tap a cell to start; tap the same cell again to switch between across and down. The currently active clue sits in a strip above the grid so you don’t need to look up while you’re solving.
- Type letters to fill cells; the cursor advances along the current direction.
- ⌫ clears the current cell and steps back if the cell was already empty.
- Enter flips the direction without moving.
- The arrow keys (on a desktop) move the cursor; pressing left or right also switches you to across, up or down switches to down.
- Tap “All clues” beneath the grid to see both clue lists at once; tapping a clue jumps the cursor to that word.
A new crossword goes up every Monday.