Hello Wordl

Hello Wordl is a word-guessing game that takes the familiar six-guess Wordle format and lets you set the word length anywhere from 4 to 11 letters. You can play a shared daily puzzle or start unlimited random rounds, and a difficulty slider adds two harder tiers beyond the standard mode. It is free, open-source, and runs entirely in the browser with no account or download.

What is Hello Wordl?

The core loop will feel immediate to anyone who has played a five-letter guessing game. You type a word, press Enter, and each tile changes color to score your guess: green means the letter is correct and in the right spot, yellow means the letter is in the word but somewhere else, and gray means it is not in the word at all. You have six guesses to find the hidden word. The length slider is what changes the feel. Set it to 4 for a quicker puzzle or push it up toward 11, where longer targets give you more information per guess but a much larger space to narrow down.

The difficulty slider is the other feature that separates Hello Wordl from a plain Wordle clone. Normal mode only requires that each guess be a valid dictionary word. Hard mode adds Wordle's own rule: any green letter you have revealed must stay locked in place, and any yellow letter must be reused in later guesses. Ultra Hard goes further, requiring that a yellow letter move away from the spot where it was clued and that gray clues be obeyed, which forces you to use every piece of information the board has given you. Guesses are checked against a variation of the North American Scrabble tournament and club word list, so obscure but legal words are accepted while nonsense is rejected.

The game was made by a programmer and musician who goes by "lynn" (handle @chordbug), and the source lives in a public MIT-licensed repository at github.com/lynn/hello-wordl. The English word pool is drawn from a curated top-25,000 subset of Peter Norvig's word frequency list, with inappropriate language, very obscure words, plurals, conjugations, and British spellings filtered out. That filtering is why the answers tend to be words you actually know rather than deep Scrabble trivia, even though the acceptance dictionary is broad.

When you finish, the game builds a shareable emoji grid of your result, one row per guess, using the usual black, yellow, and green squares, or blue and orange squares if you turn on the high-contrast colorblind palette. The daily puzzle uses a seed made from the calendar date, so everyone who plays that day gets the same word, and it rolls over to a new word each day. Random mode has no timer and no reset: finish a round and you can immediately start another with a fresh word at any length. There is also a dark theme and a choice of keyboard layouts including QWERTY, AZERTY, QWERTZ, Dvorak, and Colemak, plus an option to move the Enter key.

How to play Hello Wordl

1. Open Hello Wordl at hellowordl.net in any browser, no account or download needed.
2. Set the word length with the slider, from 4 up to 11 letters, or leave it at the default of 5.
3. Choose a difficulty tier if you want a challenge: Normal, Hard, or Ultra Hard.
4. Type a valid word and press Enter to submit your first guess.
5. Read the tile colors: green is a correct letter in the correct spot, yellow is in the word but misplaced, gray is not in the word.
6. Use those clues to refine your next guess, and solve the word within six tries.

Tips and strategy

• Start with a word that packs in common vowels and frequent consonants so your first guess reveals as much as possible.
• At longer lengths (8 to 11 letters) spend early guesses testing letters rather than trying to solve, since the answer space is much larger.
• Once you have a couple of yellow letters, try a guess that relocates them to spots you have not ruled out yet.
• Turn on Hard or Ultra Hard only after you are comfortable, because they force you to reuse revealed letters and can trap you into wasting guesses.
• Use Random mode to warm up on a length before you commit to the shared daily puzzle at that length.
• If the colors are hard to read, switch on the high-contrast palette so green and yellow become orange and blue.

Good to know

Category

Word game

Guesses

6 attempts per puzzle

Modes

Daily (date-seeded) and Random (unlimited)

Resets

Daily puzzle resets each calendar day; Random has no reset

Cost

Free, open-source (MIT licensed)

Archive

No browsable back-catalog of past daily puzzles

Creator

"lynn" (@chordbug), github.com/lynn/hello-wordl

Feedback

Shareable emoji grid of your result

Hello Wordl FAQ

Is Hello Wordl free?

Yes. It is free to play with no account and no download, and the code is open-source under an MIT license.

How do you play Hello Wordl?

Guess a hidden word in six tries. After each guess the tiles turn green for a correct letter in the right spot, yellow for a letter in the word but misplaced, and gray for a letter not in the word. You can set the word length from 4 to 11 letters before you start.

When does Hello Wordl reset, and is there an archive?

The daily puzzle uses a seed based on the calendar date and rolls over to a new word each day. There is no archive of past daily puzzles, but Random mode lets you play unlimited fresh words at any length whenever you like.

Is Hello Wordl like Wordle?

It shares Wordle's six-guess format and green, yellow, and gray tile scoring. The differences are that you can pick the word length from 4 to 11, play unlimited random rounds, and use an extra Ultra Hard difficulty on top of Wordle's hard mode.

Who made Hello Wordl?

It was created by a programmer and musician who goes by "lynn" (handle @chordbug). The source code is public at github.com/lynn/hello-wordl.