Frequently Asked Questions

Answers about the site's word and puzzle tools.

The word tools can search the dictionaries available in your application's data directory, including NWL, CSW/SOWPODS, ENABLE and TWL06.

An asterisk represents an unknown letter. For example, CRAN* gives the solver one wildcard tile.

No. The Wordle solver works from the clues you provide and filters its five-letter word list accordingly.

The current helper calculates the normal letter value of each word. It does not calculate board-square multipliers because it does not know your board layout.

WordQuest uses the familiar five-letter, six-guess format, but it is its own game running from your application's word list.

The server validates the puzzle and uses a backtracking solver to find a valid completed Sudoku grid.