Quordle Unlimited

Four hidden 5-letter words sit on four boards side by side. Type a 5-letter word and press Enter: it is tried on every board that is still open, so one guess can tell you something about all four words. Use what each board shows to work out its word, and keep going until all four boards are solved or you run out of guesses. Medium gives you 9.

Easy gives you 10 guesses, Medium 9 and Hard 8. The level also changes which words can be hidden: Easy hides only the most common words (414 of them), while Medium and Hard draw from 851 common words. What you may type is the same on every level: all 4,311 words in our list.

Each letter has a shape as well as a color. A solid block means the letter is in the right place. An outlined block with a small dot in the corner means the letter is in that board's word but in a different place. A faint block means the letter is not in the word. The same three shapes are used on the keys, where a number in the corner says how many open boards hold that letter, and a dimmed key means the letter is in none of them.

It locks. The board turns dark with a gold edge and a padlock, shows how many guesses it took, and fills the rows that are left with hatching. Later guesses are no longer tried on it, and its letters stop counting on the keyboard, so the keys only tell you about the boards that are still open.

A letter is marked as many times as the hidden word holds it. Letters in the right place are counted first, and the rest are marked from left to right until the word runs out of that letter. So if you guess a word with two Es and the hidden word has one, only one E gets a mark and the other shows as not in the word.

Here you are not limited to one set. Press Next puzzle and a new set of four words appears at once, at the same level, with no sign-up. If you want one shared set a day, switch to Daily. As far as its own page shows, the original is built around a daily set, with practice games and extra modes alongside.

No. The Dles is an independent site. We wrote this game ourselves, with our own word list, board and levels, and it is not affiliated with or endorsed by the maker or owner of the original Quordle.

The original page credits Freddie Meyer as its creator, and says the idea came on 29 January 2022 with a first prototype the next day (Merriam-Webster). It is now run by Merriam-Webster. This site is not run by them.

On the original's own page, the main mode gives 9 guesses, and its other modes change that number (Merriam-Webster). Here the count depends on the level: 10 on Easy, 9 on Medium and 8 on Hard.

The list comes from SCOWL (Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists, by Kevin Atkinson, 2000 to 2016), which is free to use under a permissive licence. We kept 4,311 common 5-letter words and left out names and words that do not belong in a family game. A word outside that list is refused with the note Not in the word list, and it costs no guess. The list is our own, so it is not the same as the original game's.

Yes. Hint shows one letter in its right place on the open board where you know the least, and it does not cost a guess. You can use it 3 times in a game; after that it has nothing more to show.