Unlimited Wordle. Six guesses to find the word, then another six right now, because I never built the bit that tells you to come back tomorrow.
Boss walking over? Hit Esc twice. Go on, try it.
Fine, show me some hints
If you want to win
- ALERT then SONIC. Ten letters, four vowels, zero overlap.
- Don't chase a single yellow. Spend guess two on five new letters.
Things this board does
- One answer in seven starts with S.
- One in five ends in E.
- Nearly a third repeat a letter, which catches me out constantly.
If you want to lose slowly
- Try to win on guess two. It feels great about 8% of the time.
- Open with a word full of J, Q, X and Z. Bold. Wrong, but bold.
Today's riddle
Come back in a moment - this one loads with the page.
Answer goes up tomorrow. No cheating, it's in the source and I'll know.From Conundrums, Riddles and Puzzles, Penn Publishing Company, around 1900. Public domain, via Project Gutenberg. A new one every day, and 397 of them before it starts repeating.
Play a word game with no daily limit
You already know how this works. There's a hidden word, you get six tries, and after each guess the tiles tell you how close you were. Same as Wordle.
The difference is what happens next. Round over? Press play again. There's a new word sitting there waiting. No countdown, no "come back tomorrow", no little clock ticking away while you sit there wanting one more go. I built this because I kept finishing the famous one in ninety seconds and then having nothing to do with my hands.
If you do want the shared-puzzle thing, switch to Daily challenge. One word per calendar day, the same word for everyone, and a streak you will absolutely forget to defend on day nine. Practise in Unlimited, panic in Daily.
Board sizes run from three letters to seven. The 3-letter game is over before you've settled into your chair. Four is a coffee-length round. Six is meaner than it looks. Seven is genuinely horrible and I don't know why I keep going back. New here? Read how to play, or just steal my starting words.
Want the opposite problem? Don't Wordle Unlimited is the same tiles with the goal flipped: make six valid guesses and try hard not to land on the word. It's harder than it sounds and it ends careers.
What the 5-letter answer list actually looks like
861 answers. 15,909 words you're allowed to guess. I counted every one of them, which took an evening I'm not getting back, so you may as well have the numbers. These are specific to the list this board uses, not general English averages.
| Measurement | Value | What to do about it |
|---|---|---|
| Answers starting with S | 14.3% | One word in seven. Nothing else comes close |
| Answers ending in E | 19.9% | The likeliest last letter, ahead of T at 11.8% |
| Answers with exactly two vowels | 64.1% | The default shape. Only 27.3% have a single vowel |
| Answers with a repeated letter | 28.8% | Almost a third. Far more than people expect |
The letters covering the most answers are E (51.2%), A (41.2%), R (40%), T (31.7%) and O (31%). E turns up in more than half of them. If your opening word hasn't got one, you're making this harder on purpose.
Position matters as much as raw frequency. The first slot leans hard on S, then C at 8.5% and B at 8%. The middle is vowel country. The last slot is E almost a fifth of the time. Endings carry real signal too: -ER closes 6.5% of answers and -ED another 4.3%.
Best starting words for the 5-letter board
Rank all 861 answers by how much of the list their distinct letters cover and you get ALERT, ALTER and LATER at the top. Same five letters, three arrangements. Then ARISE, RAISE and LASER.
The strongest two-guess opening is ALERT then SONIC. They share nothing, so between them they test ten distinct letters and four of the five vowels. Play both regardless of what the first one tells you and guess three arrives with a very short list of candidates. The full breakdown for every board size is on the word statistics page, and the strategy guide covers what to do with the clues once you've got them.
Questions people actually ask
Can I really play as many rounds as I want?
Yes. Unlimited mode deals a new hidden word the second a round ends. Press Play again, or just hit Enter, and you're off. No daily cap, no cooldown, no account, no email address. If you got here searching for a way to play more than one puzzle a day, this is it.
Is it free?
Free. No sign-up, no download, no subscription. It runs in the browser on a phone, a tablet or a desktop, and it keeps working offline after your first visit. There are a couple of ads, and that's the whole business model.
How is this different from the daily Wordle?
The famous one gives everybody a single shared puzzle per day and then closes the door. This has that too, as Daily mode with a streak, but it also has an Unlimited mode that never runs out and boards from three to seven letters. It's an independent game and it isn't affiliated with Wordle or The New York Times. If you're shopping around, here's my list of Wordle alternatives, including the ones I like better than mine.
Can I change the word length?
Yes. Three letters is the gentle one and works well with kids. Four is quick. Six is meaner than it looks. Seven is genuinely horrible. Each board has its own curated answer list rather than a chopped-up version of the same one.
Is there a hard mode?
There is, in Settings. Hard mode makes you reuse every clue the board has already given you, which is the classic rule and is explained properly in the rules guide. It stops you throwing away a guess on ten fresh letters, and it will annoy you at least once.
Are my statistics saved?
Games played, win rate, current and best streak and the full guess distribution all live in your browser, on your device. Nothing is uploaded and there's no account to make. Clear the site data and they're gone, which has happened to me.
Where do the daily riddles come from?
A book called Conundrums, Riddles and Puzzles, published by the Penn Publishing Company around 1900 and now in the public domain via Project Gutenberg. I didn't write them. I read the whole thing, threw out about seven in ten for being unusable in this century, and kept 397 that still land.