QURDAL

Five letters. Six guesses. British English.

HARD MODE · Green letters stay locked

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How to play Qurdal

Find the hidden five-letter word in six guesses. Each guess must be in the built-in dictionary.

A Green: correct letter, correct position.

A Orange: correct letter, wrong position.

A Grey: no unmatched copy of this letter remains.

Hard mode is always on

Green letters are automatically filled and locked in later guesses.
You must reuse every revealed orange letter. If two copies have been confirmed, you must use both.
Grey letters are not automatically banned: a duplicate may have been marked grey even when another copy is in the answer.

Type on your keyboard or use the buttons. Press Enter to submit and Backspace to delete. Locked letters are skipped.

Words can contain repeated letters. Green matches are counted first, then orange matches, so extra copies are not incorrectly highlighted.

The dictionary includes British spellings, inflections and some less common words. It is curated, not exhaustive, and is not the official NYT dictionary. Answers are selected from a smaller, familiar-word pool. A random new word is available whenever you want.

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