Unlimited five-letter word game, solo or with friends

How solo play works

Play solo puts you in a private room on your own and starts a Marathon of 15 words with a 10-minute timer straight away. Each word has six tries and the usual green, yellow and grey tiles. Solve it and the next word appears; you score 6 points for a first-try solve down to 1 point on the sixth try. When the time runs out or you finish the pool, you see every word with your tries and time on each.

Want something different? After a game, tap Choose another game to change the mode, from 1 to 50 words and from 1 to 60 minutes, then play again. There is no daily limit and no account.

Good ways to practise

• Sprint: 10 words in 3 minutes. Trains you to commit to a guess quickly, which is what wins Race and Blitz.
• Accuracy: 15 words, 20 minutes, Marathon. No time pressure, so aim to solve every word in four guesses or fewer.
• Nerves: Survival with 50 words. See how far you get before your first miss.
• Openers: try the measured best starting words for a few games and watch your average guesses drop.

Bring friends in

Every solo room is a normal room. Tap the room code at the top to share the link, and anyone who opens it joins the same game, even halfway through. For a proper contest, go back to the home page, create a room, wait for everyone and then start, so you all begin together. See the four modes.

The words

Answers come from about 1,000 everyday five-letter words, such as smile, beach and pizza, so practice is about technique, not vocabulary. Any real English word is accepted as a guess, and a word that is not real is rejected without using up a try.