Daily Word Game — 5-Letter Word Puzzle

This is a genuine daily word-guessing game in the Wordle style, not a random shuffle: the secret word is picked by a deterministic pseudo-random generator (mulberry32) seeded from the number of days since the Unix epoch for today's calendar date, then used to index into a curated answer list. That means every visitor who opens this page on the same calendar date gets the exact same secret word — the seed never depends on the time of day or your device, only the date — so results are genuinely comparable with friends, exactly like the original format.

Guesses are checked against a real bundled dictionary of thousands of valid 5-letter English words; anything that is not an actual word is rejected with a clear message instead of silently accepted, just like the real thing. The color feedback uses a proper two-pass algorithm: the first pass marks every exact-position match as correct and removes those letters from the answer's remaining letter pool, and only then does the second pass mark any remaining guessed letters as present, decrementing that pool as each one is consumed. That two-pass order is what correctly handles duplicate letters — for example, guessing two of the same letter when the answer contains only one of them marks just a single tile as a match, never both, which is the detail most home-made word game clones get wrong.

You get six guesses, an on-screen keyboard that accumulates green, yellow, and gray state across your whole run, and full physical keyboard support (type letters, Enter to submit, Backspace to delete). Today's progress is saved to your browser's local storage keyed by date, so reloading the page never costs you your guesses — tomorrow's puzzle simply starts fresh. On finishing, you can copy a spoiler-free emoji grid of your run to paste anywhere. The answer list is a curated set of a few hundred common, recognizable words rather than an exhaustive dictionary, and both word lists are English-only by design in every language version of this page — everything runs locally in your browser with no accounts, no downloads, and no server involved.