how to play fiver
Fiver is a free daily five-letter word game. You get six guesses to find the hidden word. After each guess, every letter tells you something: lime means it's in the right spot, yellow (with a small dot) means it's in the word but somewhere else, and grey means it's not in the word at all. There's a new word every day, and solo mode has unlimited practice words.
- Type any five-letter word and press enter.
- Lime letters are in the right spot. Yellow letters with a dot are in the word but in a different spot. Grey letters aren't in the word.
- Use what you learn to make your next guess. You have six tries.
- The keyboard keeps track of every letter you've tried.
- After the daily, your results show how many guesses your past dailies took, so you can see your streak of good days.
Keyboard: Type letters on your keyboard, Backspace deletes, Enter guesses, and Esc goes back to the menu.
tips
- Start with a word that has three vowels or common letters like r, s, t and n.
- A letter can appear twice. If a guess shows one yellow e, there might still be another.
- Hard mode makes you keep every hint you've found. Switch it on before your first guess.
- High contrast swaps lime and yellow for orange and blue, which is easier to tell apart for colorblind players.
faq
American or British spelling?
Daily answers skip words that are spelled differently in American and British English, like color, so nobody loses a day to spelling.
Is there a new word every day?
Yes, at midnight in your time zone. Everyone gets the same daily word, and it never repeats a word from the list until the whole list has been used.
Can I play more than once a day?
Yes. Solo mode deals practice words, and it never deals a word that's coming up as a daily in the next year.
Where do the words come from?
Any word in the ENABLE word list (public domain) is a valid guess. The answers are common words we picked by hand from SCOWL, Copyright 2000-2018 by Kevin Atkinson, used under its permissive license. We left out obscure, crude and grim words.
How does sharing work?
Your share shows each guess as a row of colored squares, so friends see how you did without seeing the word.