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.