Instructions
The goal is to guess 8 five-letter words in 16 or fewer tries (but you can keep guessing past 16 to try to figure out all of the words). You start with 4 words to guess, and as you finish each of the first 4 words, you get another word to start guessing. All guesses must be valid five-letter words.
Use the keyboard to enter your guess:
G
U
E
S
S
Press the enter key (⏎) to complete your guess. Use the backspace key (⇦) to delete a letter, or just click on a letter to delete the letter and move the entry cursor to that position.
G
U
S
S
When you complete a guess, the letters are colored to indicate how close your guess is to the correct word.
G
U
E
S
S
A green letter (S) indicates a correct letter in the correct position. A yellow letter (U) indicates a letter that appears in the word, but in a different position. In this case, the correct word might have been “UNITS”.
The keyboard will show you which of the four puzzles have green, yellow, or no matches for a letter. After this guess, the “U” key might look like this:
U
This indicates that the best match in the upper-left puzzle was yellow (as in the example above), the best match in the upper-right puzzle was green, there was no match in the lower-left puzzle, and the letter “U” has not been guessed for the current word in the lower-right puzzle. If you click on the already-active cursor position in one of the four puzzles, the keyboard will “zoom up” on that one puzzle.
U
When you guess a letter that must be wrong because it has already been shown not to appear in the puzzle, because a different letter was already green in the same position, or because the same letter has appeared yellow in the same column, the letter will appear red. Note that not all ways a guess can be wrong will cause a letter to turn red.
G
U
E
S
S
F
U
N
G
I
If the your guess is not a valid word, the letters will all turn red, and you cannot enter that word.
W
O
R
D
X
A new “daily” puzzle is available each day, and you can play as many “free” puzzles as you want. Click
to see how well you have been playing.
About
I wrote 2x4dle for fun and wanted to share it with the world. I am not trying to make any money from this project.
Insipired by Quordle by @fireph and Octordle by Kenneth Crawford.
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© P. Lisiecki 2022
Privacy
My server keeps standard web access logs (including IP addresses) to help me understand traffic patterns.
The game shares with me how many moves were needed to complete each puzzle.
All other game data and statistics are kept only on your device.
Shared data will be used only to administer and improve the game itself and understand its usage patterns.
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