Word to your Mother

One pattern, several answers

The opening row looks familiar, but it describes a set rather than one secret word. A fixed-position letter must appear in that position in every target. A present letter belongs in every target but not where the clue placed it. An excluded letter belongs in none of them. The round ends only after the whole target set has been found.

That change makes possibility management more important than information hunting. In Wordle, a broad probe can be useful because it tests several letters at once. Here, every submitted target has to obey the conditions already on the board, so the useful move is one that both qualifies and helps organize what could remain.

Normal Mode keeps rewriting the problem

After a target is accepted in Normal Mode, its colors are reformatted around the missing answers. A letter can show that all remaining targets share one position, that at least one remaining target uses it elsewhere, or that the letter no longer appears in the unsolved set. The board therefore becomes more specific after each success.

Read those updated rows as new constraints, not as a score for the word just entered. Before trying another candidate, combine the opening row with every condition revealed by accepted targets. This is the main shortcut the interface gives you.

Hard Mode removes the accumulating hints

Hard Mode leaves earlier entries uniformly colored instead of converting them into clues for the remaining targets. The objective does not change, but the external memory aid does: you must remember which compatible answers you have already exhausted and search the original possibility space more systematically.

Start in Normal Mode if the multi-answer rule is new. Hard Mode is the better second step once you can translate one Wordle-style row into a list of candidates without relying on the board to summarize the remaining set.

Bonus words and return modes

The game recognizes some less-common words from an extended list. They appear as starred bonus words, can contribute letter clues in Normal Mode and are not required for completion. This avoids punishing a valid obscure find while keeping the target list finite.

The daily board is only one return path. Unlimited random games are available for practice, and a separate decaleptical game changes every ten minutes. Statistics track completion times for Normal and Hard play, while the completion panel can copy a result to the clipboard.

A practical first-round strategy

1. Translate the opening colors into a written set of fixed, required and excluded letters.
2. Prefer a common qualifying word before searching the extended vocabulary for bonus possibilities.
3. After every Normal Mode success, reread its colors from the perspective of the answers still missing.
4. When several candidates differ by one position, test the one that separates the largest number of remaining letter patterns.
5. Switch to Hard Mode only when remembering previous candidates is part of the challenge you want.