Word Guess

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Player’s guide

The same five-letter board as Word Guess, the same real words, the same green, yellow and gray grading — with one twist: nothing has been chosen. Instead of hiding one word, the host keeps every possible answer in play and only ever tells you what it must. Your job is to squeeze that field down to a single word and take it. Everyone plays the same field, with a fresh one at midnight UTC.

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    Make a guess

    Type with your keyboard or the on-screen keys and press Enter. Every guess must be a real five-letter word — the row shakes if the dictionary doesn’t know it, and the guess isn’t spent. Unlike Word Guess there is no limit: the board keeps growing until you win.
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    Read the colours

    The tiles grade every letter, the same three ways:

    Green — W is in the right spot in every word still in play.

    Yellow — I is in them, but somewhere else.

    Gray— U isn’t in any of them.

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    Mind repeated letters

    Exactly as in Word Guess: feedback counts each copy of a letter once. If your guess has two E’s but the words still standing hold only one, just one of them is coloured — the other stays gray. Two coloured E’s promise the answer really has two.
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    The twist: nothing has been chosen

    Here is where this stops being Word Guess. Each guess is checked against every word still in play, and those words are sorted into groups by the colours they’d produce. The host answers with the group holding the most words, then throws the rest away. It never lies — every colour you see is true of every word still standing — it just always picks the answer that keeps its options open.
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    Watch the count

    “Words left” is the whole game. A guess that barely dents it let the host off easy; a guess that halves it forced its hand. All-gray rows aren’t failures — they’re usually the host taking its biggest escape route, and they still narrow the field.
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    Win by cornering

    The host will never volunteer a solved row while it has anywhere left to hide. When the count reaches one, that word is the only answer left — guess it and the row turns green. Guesses are unlimited, so the score is how few you needed, with the clock breaking ties.
Tip: Splitting beats guessing. A word whose letters cut the field into evenly sized groups leaves the host no big bucket to hide in — which is why a bold, unlikely-looking guess often shrinks the count far more than a word that merely “fits” the clues.