Kilordle

Kilordle takes the multi-board Wordle idea and scales it up about as far as it can go: instead of two, four, or eight hidden words, you are chasing 1,000 at once, with 1,005 guesses to catch them all. Every word you type is checked against all 1,000 hidden answers in the same pass, and the game has one crucial twist that makes the whole thing possible: you never have to guess a word exactly. Once every letter of a hidden word has shown up green somewhere in your guesses, that word clears on its own.

What is Kilordle?

Kilordle hides 1,000 five-letter words, drawn each day from a pool of roughly 2,300 answer words. Every guess you submit is applied to every word that is still unsolved. Rather than trying to draw 1,000 boards, the game shows you up to 32 boards at a time, sorted so the words closest to being solved appear first, with a counter like "+ 968 more" for the rest. A header keeps two running tallies: how many guesses you have used out of 1,005, and how many of the 1,000 words remain. The rule that makes 1,000 words playable is how a word gets cleared. Green marks accumulate across all of your guesses, and a word is removed the moment every one of its five positions has been matched green by some guess, in any combination. You do not need to type the exact answer. If a board shows four greens, any guess that happens to put the right letter in the last spot finishes it, even if that guess was aimed at a completely different board. Letters in the right position turn green, letters that appear in the word but in the wrong spot turn yellow, and invalid entries flash red. What sets Kilordle apart from the rest of the multi-Wordle family is scale. Dordle doubled the original Wordle to two boards, Quordle went to four, Octordle to eight, and Sedecordle to sixteen. Kilordle jumps straight to 1,000, and the math is tight: 1,005 guesses for 1,000 words works out to barely one guess per word, so the cumulative-green rule and lucky cross-board hits are what keep a run alive. The word set is picked from the current date, so everyone playing on the same day faces the same 1,000 words, and a fresh set arrives the next day. The game comes from a developer who goes by jonesnxt on GitHub (the in-game header credits "jones"), built as an open-source TypeScript and React project and published in early 2022. It has continued to receive commits and player-filed bug reports since. Finishing all 1,000 words brings up an end screen that generates a shareable image of your progress chart, captioned with how many guesses your run took. It is free, needs no login, and has no archive of past days. It also does not save your progress between visits, so a run is meant to be played out in one long sitting.

How to play Kilordle

1. Open Kilordle at jonesnxt.github.io/kilordle
2. Look over the boards on screen: the game shows up to 32 of the 1,000 hidden words at a time, closest-to-solved first, with a counter for the rest
3. Type a 5-letter word and submit it; the guess is checked against every unsolved word at once
4. Read the feedback on each visible board: letters in the right position turn green, letters in the word but in the wrong spot turn yellow
5. Remember that greens accumulate: a word clears once all five of its positions have been matched green by any of your guesses, so you never have to type the exact answer
6. Keep guessing until the Remaining counter reaches zero or you use up all 1,005 guesses

Tips and strategy

• Start with guesses full of common letters (vowels plus letters like R, S, T, L, N), since each guess is graded against hundreds of words and common letters land greens somewhere almost every time
• Work the front of the list: the game sorts the nearly-solved words to the top, so boards showing four greens are the cheapest points on screen
• Use the no-exact-guess rule on purpose: if several near-done boards each need one letter, look for a single word that drops the right letter into the right slot for more than one of them
• Do not assume feedback carries across boards; a letter that is green on one word can be absent from the next
• The budget is tight at 1,005 guesses for 1,000 words, so avoid words that mostly repeat letters and positions you have already confirmed
• Plan to finish in one sitting, because the game does not save your progress if you close or refresh the page

Good to know

Category

Word

Hidden words

1,000 per day

Guess limit

1,005 guesses

Resets

Daily; the word set is picked from the date

Cost

Free, no login required

Archive

None found

Creator

jonesnxt (GitHub), open source

Launched

February 2022

Kilordle FAQ

Is Kilordle free to play?

Yes. It is a free browser game with no login required, and its source code is public on GitHub.

How do you play Kilordle?

You type 5-letter guesses, and each guess is checked at the same time against all 1,000 hidden words. Letters in the right position turn green and letters in the wrong position turn yellow. You get 1,005 guesses to clear all 1,000 words.

Do you have to guess every word exactly?

No, and this is the trick that makes the game winnable. Green matches accumulate across all of your guesses, and a word clears as soon as every one of its five positions has been matched green by some guess. Many words fall as side effects of guesses aimed at other boards.

Does Kilordle reset every day like other -dle games?

Yes. The set of 1,000 hidden words is chosen from the current date, so everyone playing on a given day gets the same words, and a new set appears the next day. Your progress is not saved between visits, though, so a run needs to be finished in one sitting.

Is Kilordle like Wordle?

It uses the same core mechanic, 5-letter words with green and yellow feedback, but applies it to 1,000 hidden words at once. It sits in the same lineage as Dordle, Quordle, Octordle, and Sedecordle, scaled up much further, with the added rule that words clear from cumulative greens rather than exact guesses.

Who made Kilordle?

A developer known as jonesnxt on GitHub, credited as "jones" in the game's header. It is an open-source TypeScript and React project published in early 2022 that has kept receiving commits and bug reports from players.