How to play Wordle Tournament
To play Wordle Tournament, press Play, join a lobby of 8 players, and in every round guess the same secret word as your opponent on a shared board, taking turns, with up to 6 turns of 30 seconds each
Step by step
- Press Play on the home page. A nickname is made for you, and you can change it in the settings
- Wait in the lobby. The tournament starts when 8 players are in, or after 30 seconds at the latest
- Check the pairs. Before each round a 6-second intro shows who plays whom
- On your turn, type a word of the right length and press Enter. The word must be in the game's word list, otherwise the row shakes and your clock keeps running
- Read the colors and use them for your next guess. Your opponent's guesses count too, because the board is shared
- Solve the word before your opponent to win the duel. If you lose, you lose 1 life. If both of you use all 6 turns, it is a draw and both lose 1 life
- Keep playing round after round. When you are out, or when you win, you see your place and your rating change at once
What the colors mean
| Color | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Green | The letter is in the word and in the right place |
| Yellow | The letter is in the word, but in another place |
| Gray | The word has no such letter, or all copies of it are already counted |
Repeated letters follow the usual Wordle rule: greens are counted first, then yellows from left to right while the word still has unused copies of that letter. So if your guess has two E's and the word has one, only one of them gets a color
The shared board
You and your opponent play on the same board with the same secret word. Every row is tagged with the player who made it, and the newest row is at the bottom
The on-screen keyboard shows the best state of each letter across both players' guesses, so every guess helps both players, yours included. While your opponent types, you see how many cells they have filled, but never the letters
Turns and the clock
- Turns alternate, and who moves first is random
- Each player has up to 6 turns, so a duel has up to 12 rows
- You have 30 seconds per turn
- If the time runs out, your turn is skipped: it counts as used and passes to your opponent
- There is no limit on skips, and skips alone never lose the duel
- A word of the wrong length or not in the word list shakes the row, and the clock keeps running
The secret word
Before each duel the game draws a word length of 4, 5 or 6 letters with equal chances, then picks a word of that length in the game language. Every pair of players gets a different word
Between rounds
When your duel is over, you wait for the other duels of the round to finish. You can watch them as they happen, but you only see colors, never letters. Then the next round starts with a 6-second intro that shows the new pairs
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