About Word Circuit
Word Circuit gives you six tries at a five-letter answer drawn from a word list we wrote ourselves, leaning on workshop and signal vocabulary — cable, forge, prism, relay. After each guess, every letter comes back marked one of three ways: in the right place, present but positioned wrongly, or not in the answer at all.
Guesses have to be real words from our accepted list, which is deliberately wider than the answer list. That distinction matters: you can spend a turn on a word that could never be the answer purely to test five new letters, and against a stubborn board that is often the right move.
How to play
Type a five-letter word and submit it. Read the three signal colours, narrow the field, and go again. Six rows is the whole budget, and the answer resets at midnight UTC.
Controls
- Type on a physical keyboard, or use the on-screen letters on a phone.
- Backspace clears the last letter; Enter submits the row.
Tips
- Open with a word carrying three or four different vowels. Knowing which vowels are out narrows the field faster than any consonant does.
- A misplaced letter is more informative than an absent one, because it rules out a specific position as well as confirming presence.
- If two candidates remain and you still hold three guesses, spend one on a word containing the letters that distinguish them rather than gambling on either.
- Watch for repeated letters. A word with a doubled letter will show one exact and one absent for the same character, which reads as contradictory until you expect it.
