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Warmer
Find the hidden word. Closeness here means closeness in the alphabet, not in meaning: a guess is warmer when fewer words sit between it and the answer in our A to Z list.
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Guess any everyday word. Distance here means distance through the alphabet.
Warmer
Find the hidden word. Closeness here means closeness in the alphabet, not in meaning: a guess is warmer when fewer words sit between it and the answer in our A to Z list.
- Guess any everyday word and send it.It comes back with a count: how many words of our list lie between your guess and the answer. Small is close.
- Read whether it says warmer or colder.That is only ever a comparison with your previous guess. Warmer means this one has fewer words between it and the answer than the last one did.
- Move through the alphabet towards the warmth.The count never says which side you are on, so warmer after a jump backwards means the answer is behind you. That is the thing people get wrong: they read a big count as a bad word rather than as a direction to walk in.
Scored on guesses.
What the words mean
- The word:
- the hidden word. Everyday English, four to seven letters. That is what you are looking for
- Our list:
- the 7,225 everyday words we accept, sorted A to Z. Every word in it has a place in that order, and all the maths here is done on those places
- Distance:
- how many words of the list sit between your guess and the answer. Nothing to do with meaning: BAKER and BAKERY are neighbours, BAKER and OVEN are thousands apart
- Warmer:
- ▲, closer to the word than your last guess
- Colder:
- ▼, further from the word than your last guess
- Guess:
- one word, typed in. You get 50, which is far more than you will need