📮Letterbox

Guess the daily five-letter British word in six tries. After each guess the tiles colour-code your accuracy:

• Green, letter is correct and in the right spot.
• Yellow, letter is in the word, but in a different spot.
• Grey, letter is not in the word at all.

Every guess must be a real five-letter word in our British dictionary (so COLOUR-style spellings welcome, color-style won't pass).

Standard mode: any valid 5-letter word as a guess.

Hard mode: every guess must use all your green letters (in their revealed positions) and all your yellow letters (somewhere). No wasting hints.

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The goal

Deduce the target word with as few guesses as possible. Each guess gives you information: which letters are right, which are right-but-misplaced, and which aren't in the word at all. Six guesses total; if you don't get it, the puzzle ends and the answer is revealed.

How to enter a guess

• Type on your physical keyboard, or tap letters on the on-screen one.
• Press Enter (or the green Enter key) to submit a complete row.
• Backspace (or the ⌫ key) clears the square the caret is on if it has a letter, and otherwise steps back and clears the one before. So tapping a square and pressing it deletes that letter, not its neighbour.
• Tap any square to type into it, in any order. If you know the word ends in CKS, put those in and fill the rest around them; squares can be left blank while you work it out. A full word is needed to submit.
• Fixing a letter: tap any cell in the row you're typing to move the caret (the underlined cell) there, then type to replace just that letter. There is no need to delete the rest of the word.
• Only valid five-letter British words are accepted. Wrong spellings, made-up words, and proper nouns get rejected without using a turn.

Worked example

Say the target is PLOUGH. (Hypothetical, six letters here just to illustrate, the real game is exactly five.) After guessing STAGE, you'd see something like:

You'd then use that information. G appears in the word, to constrain your next guess. Repeat until you crack it.

Standard vs. Hard mode

• Standard. Each guess can be any valid word; you don't have to use the hints you already revealed. Useful when you want to probe new letters.
• Hard. Every guess must respect what you've already learned: any green letter must stay in its position, and any yellow letter must appear somewhere in the new guess. Forces you to deduce, not probe.

Scoring

• Your score is the number of guesses you took. Fewer is better.
• Get it in 1: extraordinary luck. In 2-3: very strong. 4-5: solid. 6: phew.
• Both modes count toward your daily streak.

Tips

• Start with a word rich in common letters: RAISE, ARISE, STARE, SLATE are classics.
• If your first guess scores zero hits, your second should cover a totally different letter set, POUND, MULCH, to maximise information.
• Watch for British spellings: COLOUR, FAVOUR, TYRES, MOULD. The dictionary is British, so American-only forms aren't valid guesses.

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