Daily word puzzle that took the world by storm
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The definitive daily word puzzle — short enough to finish before your morning coffee, with enough deduction depth to keep it interesting long-term. Nothing else matches its combination of brevity, fairness, and community synchrony.
Yes. The New York Times hosts it at no cost, though creating a free NYT account is now required to save your streak.
Yes. Every player worldwide receives the same word on the same day, which is why sharing results as colored grids became so popular.
Hard Mode requires every subsequent guess to use all letters already confirmed as correct (green or yellow). It removes the strategy of using throwaway guesses to probe new letters.