Unwordle is a reverse Wordle puzzle that turns the usual five-letter word game around. Instead of finding an unknown answer, you are given the final word and a completed pattern of colored tiles. Your job is to work backwards: enter a sequence of valid guesses that recreates the exact grid.
A new daily puzzle gives you a known final row and a fresh grid to rebuild. The challenge is to make every row above it produce the required feedback, using the same letter rules that make a Wordle-style board work.
How to play Unwordle
Start with the known final word, then inspect the row immediately above it for fixed green letters and misplaced yellow letters.
Work upward through the board, using each row's color pattern to narrow the valid word for the row above.
Once the route is compatible with the whole grid, enter the guesses in the game's required top-to-bottom order while respecting its letter-history rules.
Tile colors
AGreen: the letter matches the final row in the exact column.
AYellow: the letter appears in the final row, but belongs in a different column.
AGrey: the letter does not appear in the final row.
Letter rules
Repeated letters follow the standard Wordle-style rule: only the appropriate number of tiles receives color. Exact matches are resolved first, then remaining matching letters are colored from left to right.
The order of your guesses matters too. Going from top to bottom, once you use a letter that exists in the final word, you must keep using it in later rows. Once you use a letter that is absent from the final word, you cannot use it again later in the grid.
A reverse-solving example
This CAPUT board shows why Unwordle is more than reading colors one row at a time. Every guess must match its own tile pattern and remain compatible with every earlier guess.
1. Start with what is fixed. In the row immediately above CAPUT, green C and U lock those letters into columns one and four. The yellow T confirms that T is in the final word, but not in column five.2. Treat yellow as a constraint, not a solution. The yellow U and C clues confirm that both letters exist in the final word, but they must avoid their marked columns. That narrows the next guess without solving the row outright.3. Check the whole history. UNDER proves U exists and rules out N, D, E, and R. MULCH keeps U, introduces C, and rules out M, L, and H. The next attempt keeps the useful C and U positions, but reuses L after it was grey in MULCH. That invalidates the route, so the board has to be solved again with a different word.
This is a failed-route walkthrough rather than a published solution. The puzzle is not just “find a yellow letter”: each new row has to preserve every known present letter, avoid every previously rejected letter, and still reproduce the exact green, yellow, and grey pattern.
More word games
Try Horsedle for a daily hidden-word challenge, or build a route to HORSE in Wordhorse, the daily word ladder.
FAQ
Why can a valid-looking guess still fail?
Every row must fit the whole history. A letter already shown as absent cannot be reused later, while a letter known to exist must continue to be used in later rows.
What if the player does not load?
Use the fallback link shown by the player to continue directly on Unwordle.
