The daily word
How to play Word
Word is Playabl's daily five-letter guessing game: you have six tries to land the hidden word. Each guess paints its tiles — coral means a letter is in the right spot, blue means it's in the word but somewhere else, dark means it isn't there at all. Everyone playing Playabl gets the exact same word each day, drawn from Playabl's own answer list, so your score sits on the same board as your friends'. Sign in with Google to play and keep your streak.
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Word
Guess the word in 6 tries
The rules
- 01Guess the 5-letter word in 6 tries.
- 02Colors show how close each letter is.
Example — Answer SLATE, guess SLEPT → S, L coral, E blue
- Right spot
- In word, wrong spot
- Not in the word
Why play
Word rewards the second guess more than the first. Because the answer is fixed for the day and identical for every player, the real contest is who reads the color feedback best and converges fastest — not who got lucky. It's one of seven puzzles Playabl drops every morning, all shared across the whole group, so a clean three-guess solve is something you can actually compare. Six tries is enough to recover from a cold open and tight enough to punish guessing twice on a hunch. Miss today's and you can still play it tomorrow for half points.
Tips & strategy
- Open with a word that front-loads vowels and common consonants — something like CRANE or SLATE covers A and E plus R, N, T in one move, so even a blank result eliminates a lot.
- Treat blue tiles as your most valuable clue: that letter is confirmed in the word, so your next guess should keep it but move it to a different position than the one that came back blue.
- When a letter turns coral, lock it into that exact column for every remaining guess and spend your other slots testing unknown letters rather than re-confirming what you already know.
- For repeated letters, watch the count: Playabl's two-pass coloring only lights up as many tiles of a letter as the answer actually contains, so two blues for the same letter means it appears twice.
- Any five A–Z letters are accepted as a guess — there's no dictionary check — so when you're stuck you can burn a guess purely to test five brand-new letters at once.
FAQ
- Is Playabl's Word the same as Wordle?
- No. The mechanic is the same five-letters-in-six-guesses format, but Playabl picks its own daily answer from its own list — it is not the New York Times puzzle, so the word and your stats are separate.
- Does everyone get the same word each day?
- Yes. The answer is generated from the date, so every Playabl player faces the identical word that day, which is what makes the shared leaderboard meaningful.
- What do the tile colors mean?
- Coral means the letter is correct and in the right spot, blue means the letter is in the word but in a different position, and dark means the letter is not in the word at all.
- Is Playabl Word free to play?
- Yes. Sign in with Google and you can play Word along with the other six daily puzzles at no cost.
- Can I play if I miss a day?
- You can play yesterday's Word for half points; today's puzzle always counts for full points, so it pays to keep up daily.
Seven puzzles a day, the same for everyone, scored, with a weekly champion.