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How to play Cascadle

Five words, three letters up to seven. All your previous guesses become clues to the next word.

What's this all about?

Cascadle is a daily word game.

Each game is five answers long. Three letters, then four, five, six, seven. Solve the three letter word, then four letters and so on.

The colours

Each letter of a guess is coloured to say how close it landed. Guess CAT at COAT and you get one of each:

C
A
T
An example — not a real puzzle.
  • Green — right letter, right spot.
  • Yellow — right letter, wrong spot.
  • Gray — letter not in the word.

Doubles are counted, not just noticed. A letter lights up only as many times as the answer really holds it, and the ones already in the right spot get settled first.

Completed words are clues

Say the three-letter answer is CAT and you got there via BAT and HAT — three rows, one solved, two apparently squandered.

B
A
T
H
A
T
C
A
T
Level one, done.

Then COAT arrives, and the board adjusts to the next word to guess.

B
A
T
H
A
T
C
A
T
The same three rows, measured against COAT.

A new game daily

There's one puzzle a day, the same one for everyone playing that day. It changes at midnight where you are.

Your progress and your statistics live in your own browser. No account, nothing to install, nothing sent to us.

More

The questions page covers offline play, statistics and which words count. About Cascadle covers who builds it and where the word lists come from.

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