How to play Wordle
Six guesses, five letters, one word a day.
The rules
Type any real five letter word and press enter. The tiles answer back: green is the right letter in the right square, yellow is a letter that belongs somewhere else, and grey is a letter the word does not contain. You have six rows to reach the word, and a fresh puzzle arrives at midnight in your time zone.
Reading the colours
A yellow letter must move, but it cannot stay where it was. Grey is trickier than it looks: if a word has one E and you guessed two, one can show grey while the other turns colour. And a letter that turns green early is worth building around, since most answers share common endings and patterns.
When you are stuck
Spend a guess on five brand new letters instead of nudging the ones you have. Fresh information beats a near miss. Or take one rung of today’s hint ladder and come back to the board; that is what it is for.