Word Guess Game (Wordle-Style) with Daily Word & Levels

Word Guess is a Wordle-style game: you have a limited number of tries to find a hidden word, and after each guess every letter is marked green (right letter, right place), yellow (the letter is in the word, but somewhere else) or grey (not in the word). This version is a complete game with real word lists, a Daily Word with a streak, 20 levels in four tiers, words of four, five and six letters, hard mode, hints, statistics and an emoji result you can copy and share. It is plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript with no libraries, images or audio files.

Scoring repeated letters correctly

The classic bug in word games is how repeated letters are coloured. scoreGuess() works in two passes. The first pass marks every exact match green and counts the letters of the answer that are still unmatched. The second pass then gives a yellow only while an unmatched copy of that letter remains. So guessing "SPEED" against "ABIDE" colours only one E, exactly as the original game does, and the on-screen keyboard keeps the best status each letter has ever had (green beats yellow beats grey).

Word lists that scale

The RAW object holds three lists, one per word length. Each has "answers" (common words that can be the hidden word) and "extra" words (valid guesses that will never be the answer, so rare words never feel unfair). A guess must be in the list, otherwise the row shakes and a message tells you. Plurals of the shorter answer lists are accepted as guesses automatically. words() normalises, de-duplicates and checks the length of every entry at start-up, so adding a word is just adding it to the string.

The same word for everyone

Levels and the Daily Word pick their answer with a small seeded random generator (mulberry32). Level i always uses the same seed, so level 7 is the same word for every player, and the Daily Word uses the day number, so everyone plays the same word on the same day. Clearing the daily word on consecutive days builds a streak, and the Practice buttons give you an endless supply of random words of any length.

Hard mode and hints

In hard mode, hardViolation() checks your guess against every earlier row: a green letter has to stay in its position, and a yellow letter has to appear in the guess (with the right number of copies). Four of the five-letter levels and the later six-letter levels force it. The Hint button tells you the letter at one position you have not found yet and shows it faintly in your next row. You get three hints per game and each one costs a star.

Stars, stats and sharing

Solving a level in the par number of guesses or fewer earns three stars, one more guess earns two, and any win earns one, minus one star when a hint was used. Solving a level unlocks the next. A statistics screen tracks games played, win rate, the current and best win streak and a guess-distribution chart that highlights your result. Copy result builds the familiar grid of green, yellow and black squares (orange and blue in high contrast mode) so you can share it without spoiling the word.

Feel and accessibility

Tiles pop as you type, the row shakes on an invalid word, tiles flip one by one to reveal their colours and bounce when you win, with matching sounds from a Web Audio synth. A high contrast colour option replaces green and yellow with orange and blue for colour-blind players. The game works with the physical keyboard and the on-screen keyboard, scales to short preview areas, and stacks on phones. Progress, statistics, the streak and your settings are saved to localStorage inside try/catch.