Wordle Tournament FAQ

Wordle Tournament is a multiplayer Wordle game where 8 players start with 3 lives and play 1v1 word duels on a shared board, round after round, until one player is left. You play in the browser, and you do not need an account

A tournament usually takes 8 to 10 rounds, and the finalists play for about 15 to 20 minutes. Before it starts, the lobby waits up to 30 seconds for players, and it starts at once when 8 are in

In a duel you and your opponent guess the same secret word on one shared board and take turns, with up to 6 turns each and 30 seconds per turn. The first player to solve the word wins. If both players use all 6 turns and nobody solves it, the duel is a draw

Your turn is skipped: it counts as used and passes to your opponent. There is no limit on skips, and skipping alone does not lose the duel

Each player starts with 3 lives. Losing a duel costs 1 life, a draw costs both players 1 life, and at 0 lives you are eliminated. The last player alive wins the tournament

A bye is a round without a duel. When an odd number of players is left, one of them gets a bye and loses no life, and nobody gets a bye in two rounds in a row

Everyone starts at 1000, and the rating changes by your final place, as if you had played each of the other 7 players: finishing above a player is a win, below is a loss, and the same place is a draw. In a lobby with equal ratings, first place gains 25 points and last place loses 25

Yes: create a party, send the invite link, and up to 8 friends join the same tournament. The party leader starts the game, and matchmaking fills the remaining seats. Party games are rated like any other

Leaving before the start costs nothing. Leaving after the start counts as an automatic defeat: you lose the current duel and you are eliminated. If your connection drops, your turns run out as skips, and you have 60 seconds to come back before you are treated as having left

You can play in 13 languages: English, Indonesian, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Uzbek, Polish, Portuguese, Kazakh, Russian and Ukrainian, and each lobby plays one language. The word length is drawn for each duel: 4, 5 or 6 letters with equal chances

No. You play as an anonymous player with an automatic nickname that you can change, and your profile is kept in one cookie on your device

No. Wordle Tournament is independent and has no connection with The New York Times. Wordle is their game and their trademark