Wordle Guide
How to Play Wordle: The Rules in Plain English
Six guesses, five letters and three colours. The complete Wordle rules explained simply, from your first guess to streaks, statistics and what the tiles really mean.
Puzzle Games
Daily puzzles, logic gems and brain teasers.
Wordle Guide
Best Wordle Starting Words, According to the Data
SLATE, CRANE, TRACE or something vowel-heavy? What the letter-frequency data and WordleBot actually say about openers, and why rotating two or three beats marrying one.
Wordle Guide
Wordle Strategy Guide: Play Systematically, Not Hopefully
Systematic Wordle play explained: letter frequency, position maps, clean elimination, the repeat-letter trap and the probe guess that rescues you from _IGHT families.
Wordle Guide
Wordle Hard Mode Explained: One Rule, Real Consequences
One rule changes everything: revealed hints must be reused. What Hard Mode really enforces, what it ignores, how it moves your scores and who it suits.
Wordle Guide
The Wordle Answer Archive: How the List Really Works
How the curated answer list works, why answers began repeating in February 2026, where reliable archives live, and how to use past answers without fooling yourself.
Wordle Guide
Quordle Guide: How to Solve Four Wordles in Nine Guesses
Quordle asks for four five-letter answers in nine shared guesses. This guide explains the boards, the probe-first sequencing strategy, Practice and Sequence modes, and its Merriam-Webster home.
Wordle Guide
Wordle Variants Explained: Dordle, Quordle, Octordle, Absurdle and More
From Dordle's two boards to Sedecordle's sixteen, plus the evasive Absurdle and the letter-swapping Waffle, this guide explains what each major Wordle variant changes and ranks them by difficulty.
Wordle Guide
NYT Games Guide: Every Daily Puzzle Explained, and What Is Free
Wordle, Connections, Strands, two crosswords, Spelling Bee, Letter Boxed, Tiles and Sudoku: what each NYT Games puzzle is, how it plays and which ones are still free.
Wordle Guide
Wordle Solver Tools Explained: How They Work and When to Use One
Solver tools filter word lists using clues you have earned; they do not know the answer. How they rank what remains, the well-known names, and when using one stays honest.
Feature
Why Puzzle Games Became Everyone's Favourite Coffee Break
Five minutes, one solved puzzle, zero stress. The quiet rise of the puzzle game as gaming's most democratic genre.