🟩 Word Quad
17 playsWord Quad
Four hidden five-letter words, one shared keyboard, and nine guesses to find them all.
About Word Quad
Four five-letter words are hidden at once, and every guess is entered on all four boards together, each board colouring the letters against its own answer. Nine guesses are allowed to solve the lot. The pleasure is in managing four sets of evidence simultaneously: a guess that is poor for one board may be excellent for the other three, and the early guesses are best spent gathering letters across all four rather than chasing any single word. The keyboard divides each key into quarters, so the standing of every letter on every board is visible at a glance. A daily set is shared by all players, with unlimited practice alongside.
How to Play
Type any five-letter word and press Enter; it is scored on all four boards at once. Green marks a correct letter in the correct square, yellow a correct letter elsewhere, grey a letter absent from that board’s word. Solve all four words within nine guesses. Each solved board scores 100, with 50 more for every guess left over.
💡 Tips & Strategy
Spend your first two or three guesses as probes for all four boards at once. Two opening words with ten different common letters between them — no repeats, heavy on E, A, R, S, T, O, L, I and N — will usually leave every board with a letter or two of colour, which is worth far more than a lucky green on one board and nothing on the rest.
Read the keyboard in quarters. Each key shows its standing on each board separately, so a letter grey on three boards may still be the key to the fourth. Before every guess, glance across the keys for letters that are unknown on the boards you have not yet cracked; including them turns an ordinary guess into a probe.
Solve the most constrained board first. Once a board is down to one or two candidates, finishing it costs a guess but that guess also scores on the other three — so pick the candidate whose letters teach you most about them. Conversely, never spend a guess chasing a board that still has half a dozen possibilities when another board could be finished.
Keep a budget. Nine guesses for four words leaves room for roughly three probes and one guess per board with a single guess to spare. If you are at guess six with two boards untouched, stop guessing plausible words and choose one that splits both boards' candidates, even if it cannot itself be an answer on either.