English Anti-Wordle

How to play

1. Open a room or play solo from the home page. In the Wordle category, pick the "Anti-Wordle 5" or "Anti-Wordle 6" tile (red A5 / A6 badge with EN marker).
2. The same hidden 5 or 6-letter English word is dealt to everyone in the room.
3. Every guess must respect previously learned clues: green letters stay locked in position, yellow letters must appear (but not in the slot they came up yellow), grey letters can never be reused.
4. Guesses must be in the dictionary. The valid pool is the same broader set used by English Wordle: ~16k words at 5 letters, ~30k at 6 letters. The "Valid Words" counter on the board tracks how much it has shrunk.
5. Fill all 6 rows without typing the target and you win the round for +3 points. Type the target and the round ends for you with 0.

5 and 6-letter variants

Both lengths share the same rules; only the target word's length and pool size differ. Anti-Wordle 5 is the tighter puzzle: ~16k starting pool collapses fast. Anti-Wordle 6 starts from a much broader ~30k pool, which leaves more legal moves through the late guesses; surviving to row 6 feels more achievable. Veterans usually prefer 5; newcomers often start with 6.

Key strategy

• Open with rare letters. "STARE" wins classic Wordle — it loses Anti-Wordle. Lead with J, Q, X, Z dense words like "fjord", "jazzy", "vixen", "pizza".
• Watch the Valid Words counter. Below 30 slow down. Below 5 the chance of accidentally typing the target gets dangerous.
• Greens lock you in. A green pin chains every future guess to that slot — once you have one, fill remaining slots with maximally different letters to collapse the pool quickly.
• Multiplayer is parallel. Same target, separate decision trees. Survival ties at +3 pts each; only typing the target zeroes you out.