How to play Wordhunt
There is a hidden word. You have 6 attempts to find it, and every attempt has to be a real word — the board will not take a jumble of letters, which means a guess is never wasted on a spelling.
Before you start you choose how long the word is: 4, 5, 6 or 7 letters. That is a choice of shape rather than a ladder of difficulty. A four-letter word has fewer places to hide a letter, and also far fewer clues in each guess; a seven-letter word gives more away every time you try.
What the board tells you
Each letter of your guess comes back marked one of three ways. A letter may be in the word and in the right place; in the word but somewhere else; or not in the word at all. The marks are shown as three different tiles, and each one also says which it is out loud, so the game can be played without relying on colour.
A repeated letter is where most boards are won or lost. If the answer holds one E and your guess holds two, exactly one of them is marked — the one in the right place if either is, and otherwise the first. The board never reports a letter more times than the answer actually contains it, so two marks on the same letter is real information and not a glitch.
The keyboard remembers for you
Every key you have used carries the best thing you have learned about that letter, and it only ever improves — a letter shown to be in the word never goes back to looking untried. You can type on your own keyboard or press the keys on screen; both do the same thing.
A good first guess
Spend the first attempt on letters rather than on a hunch. A word with several different common letters and no repeats tells you more than a word you half believe in, because every letter it rules out narrows the field. The second guess is where a hunch belongs.
The other habit worth having is to read what you already know before typing. It is easy to guess a word that contradicts a mark from two rows up, and the board will accept it — it only checks that a guess is a real word, never that it is consistent with what you have been told.
Playing here
Boards are unlimited and nothing is timed. Finish one and the next is a button away; the number of attempts it took is kept, and your best for each length is shown beside it. There is no account, no streak to break, and no day on which you have to come back.