Free browser game
One five-letter word a day. Six guesses. Everybody in the world gets the same word — and unlike most daily puzzles, every day you missed is still sitting there waiting for you.
A cyan bar and a ▲ means the letter is in the word and in the right place. A violet bar and a ◆ means it is in the word but somewhere else. A dark cell means it is not in there at all. Every clue is a shape as well as a colour, so you never have to tell two colours apart. That is the whole game, and it takes about three minutes.
The bit other daily puzzles get wrong
Most daily word games give you one word and, if you were busy, nothing. Daily Five keeps every puzzle from the first day onwards. Press PAST and play any of them.
The archive deliberately does not feed your streak. Your streak only moves for the word of the day, so old puzzles are practice rather than a way to manufacture a number. That keeps the streak worth something and still lets you play as much as you like.
What is in it
Worked out from the date, so it is the same word for everyone and there is nothing to look up. A new one at your local midnight.
Games played, win rate, current streak, best streak, and how often you finish in one guess through six.
Share the coloured grid and your score. The letters are never in the share text, so you cannot ruin it for anybody.
Every clue you have been given has to be used in the next guess. Set it before you start a puzzle.
Every solved cell carries a ▲ or a ◆ as well as a colour, so nothing depends on telling two shades apart. A high-contrast option swaps the violet for orange on top of that.
1,049 puzzle words — common ones, no plurals, nothing you would have to look up — and about 6,500 words accepted as guesses.
No account, nothing stored
There is no sign-up, no email, no leaderboard and nothing sent anywhere. Your streak and statistics live in your own browser. That does mean they are per-device: your phone and your laptop keep separate streaks, which is the honest trade for not asking you to make an account.
Common questions
Yes. It runs in your browser with no download, no account and nothing to buy. Your streak and your statistics are stored on your own device.
Guess a five-letter word in six tries. Every guess has to be a real word. A green tile means that letter is in the word and in the right place, amber means it is in the word but somewhere else, and grey means it is not in the word at all.
Yes. The word is worked out from the date, so every player in the world gets the same puzzle on the same day. A new one arrives at midnight, your local midnight.
Yes. Press PAST and every puzzle back to the first one is there. Old days never touch your streak — that only moves for the word of the day, so the archive is practice rather than a way to catch up.
Every clue you have been given has to be used in your next guess. A green letter must stay where it is and an amber letter must appear somewhere. It is set in the settings and has to be turned on before you start a puzzle.
Colour is never the only clue: every solved cell carries a ▲ or a ◆ as well, so the board reads with no colour vision at all. High contrast mode in the settings also swaps the violet for orange, and the shared grid uses matching squares.
No. The share text is only the coloured grid, your puzzle number and how many guesses you took. The letters are never in it.
One thousand and forty-nine puzzle words, which is about three years of daily play before any of them comes round again. You can guess from a much larger list of about six and a half thousand words.
Yes. It is built for a phone first — a proper on-screen keyboard, tiles that scale to your screen, and nothing that needs a mouse.
No. Nothing to sign up for and nothing sent anywhere. Your streak lives in your own browser, which does mean it is per-device.