Guess all two hundred and fifty-six (yes, we’re not joking, 256) DUCENTI~QUINQUAGINTA~SEXORDLE words in sixty-four (64) tries.

Each guess must be a valid five letter word. Hit the enter button ⏎ to submit.

After each guess, the color of the tiles will change to show how close your guess was to the word.

Examples

The letter C is in the word and in the correct spot.

The letters R and V are in the word, but each is misplaced in the wrong spot.

The letters F, I, N, K, and S are not found anywhere in the word.

When you type a guess in DUCENTI~QUINQUAGINTA~SEXORDLE, you will guess that word for all two hundred and fifty-six words that you are solving, and any words which match all five letters of your previous guesses will be solved without using up any further guesses. Words may appear as solutions more than once in the one game, but you only need to solve a repeated word once.

Red and purple letters

There is one other small difference between DUCENTI~QUINQUAGINTA~SEXORDLE and other Wordle games: red and purple letters. These periodically appear and disappear during the game; an example is shown below:

For the guesses SHINY followed by TRACE:

• Word 1: I in SHINY and R in TRACE are correct. S in SHINY and T in TRACE are misplaced.
• A possible guess might be WRIST
• Word 2: S and Y in SHINY are correct. None of the letters in TRACE are correct.
• Word 3: Y in SHINY is correct. R and E in TRACE are misplaced.
• Word 4: four letters, N in SHINY, and T, R, and A in TRACE, are correct. The S in SHINY was originally coloured yellow/blue and is now coloured red as it is the only misplaced letter required to complete the word. A previously guessed letter will only turn red when it is the only letter needed to successfully guess a word.
• The only possible solution is TRANS

• Word 5: S in SHINY is correct. E in TRACE is misplaced.
• Word 6: I in SHINY, and R & E in TRACE, are each misplaced.
• Word 7: T in TRACE is misplaced but R and E are correct. None of the letters in SHINY are correct.
• Word 8: N in SHINY is correct. None of the letters in TRACE are correct.

If a letter is purple, it is a repeated letter that you might have overlooked. Like red letters, they will only appear in the game if you have discovered four out of five letters and made a previous guess with the requisite number of repeated letters.

Red and purple letters can be disabled from appearing by clicking on the emoji icon 💖 in the top right-hand corner of the game.

Other

?	Help, frequently asked questions, and game information.
▦	Calendar, and lists of previously played games.
⏾	Cycles between light and dark modes, normal colours and high contrast colours.
💖	Toggles red and purple letters on or off (during game), or displays emoji or numbers (after game).
+	Enter full screen mode, if available.
−	Exit full screen mode.

You can navigate between rows using the numbers at the top of the screen, e.g. the button marked ‘49 – 56’ will jump to the row containing words 49 to 56.

When you solve a word, or if all five letters in a word have already been found in their correct locations, a green (or orange) indicator will appear in the navigation row.

Once all two hundred and fifty-six (256) indicators are illuminated, the game is completed automatically.

You have sixty-four (64) guesses to solve all two hundred and fifty-six (256) words, and the game will show your current number of guesses in the top-left-hand corner. Clicking on this number will provide you with more information about your current game, such as the exact number of words solved and unsolved.

You can swap between dark and light mode, or between the normal colours and contrasting colours, by pressing the crescent button ⏾.

Good luck! YOU’LL NEED IT!

A new DUCENTI~QUINQUAGINTA~SEXORDLE is available each day!

Help?!

This is the debug mode of Ducenti-quinquaginta-sexordle. If you are here, you have been directed to click a URL by Catherine for the purposes of obtaining, resetting, or deleting your statistics.

None of these options have an “undo” feature; if you destroy your settings there is no recovery, besides deleting and resetting from scratch.

State variables

Ducenti-quinquaginta-sexordle runs entirely client-side, with only anonymised IP addresses being logged by the Apache webserver on the server-side. The game uses local storage on your web browser to track persistent variables:

• calendar: { cal,true | cal,false | num,true | num,false | lst, true | lst, false }
• cal | num | lst: 256ordle remembers whether it was displaying old games by calendar date (default), or by the number of each game, or viewing the list of games played.
• true | false: whether 256ordle is selecting normal (true, default) or hard games (false).
• colour_mode: { 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 }
• 0 or 1 (default): green/yellow colours; 2 or 3: orange/blue colours.
• 0 or 3: white on black (dark mode); 1 (default) or 2: black on white (light mode).
• emoji_mode: { true | false }
• during the game: toggles red and purple letters on (true, default) or off (false).
• after the game: toggles between using emoji (true, default) or Unicode numbering (false) for the results summary.
• 256grid: {square | narrow | wide}
• square (default): 256ordle initialises the game in a square grid of 8 rows by 8 columns. Recommended for most computers.
• narrow: 256ordle initialises the game in an oblong grid of 16 rows by 4 columns. This layout is slightly better for phones and tablets.
• wide: 256ordle initialises the game in a rectangular grid of 4 rows by 16 columns. This layout may be preferable on wide-screen monitors.
• help: { tutorial | faq | version }
• 256ordle remembers which of the help sub-menus it was previously displaying.
• 256version: { 1 (31 October 2022) }
• Used to notify the user if a new version is loaded from the server, or of any noteworthy new features requiring explanation.

The button ‘delete state variables’ removes all of these from local storage. None of these variable are unrecoverable; they can all be reset in game.

Game variables

Ducenti-quinquaginta-sexordle retains guesses for the current daily and the most recent free games, both for the normal and hard modes; these are also stored locally. To generate the puzzles, a seed number is required; last_daily is used for the daily and daily + hard modes, while each of the free modes use a separate number. Finally, the game stores guesses of previous games for later recall.

• 256daily_guesses, 256daily_guesses_hard, 256free_guesses, 256free_guesses_hard
• These four variables are used for each of the four game modes. The two daily modes are re-initialised automatically, and each of the free modes are cleared individually when a new free game is selected.
• 256last_daily
• This variable corresponds to the number of days after 30 October 2022, which is used to generate a unique puzzle for the daily and daily+hard modes.
• 256last_free
• Seed number for the most recent free mode game, either randomly selected or from version 1.04 onward, corresponding to a previously played daily game.
• 256last_free_hard
• Seed number for the most recent free+hard mode game.
• 256saved: ["batch","short_key"]
• 256gamesbatch: ["key","value"]
• These fields retain indices and a compressed numeric list of partially played or completed games, saved as key/value pairs:
• batch: Games are indexed in groups of 10 (actually 20, if both normal and hard modes are saved) by taking the seed number (not the game number) and removing the last digit;
• short_key: { d_ | h_ } Within each index a game is referenced by the game mode and the final digit of the seed number;
• key: { d___ | h___ } In the actual games results there is less need for brevity so a game is referenced by the full seed number (not the game number);
• value: { 1, 2, 3, -1, ... } Correct guesses are assigned positive numbers corresponding to location in the puzzle (1–64); incorrect guesses use a negative number and are indexed against the complete list of allowable words.
• In theory the “compressed” results for a game can actually expand from a maximum of 320 comma-separated alpha characters to 384 numeric characters, however it is more typical for the game to be around 200 characters (including commas); thus 10 to 20 games in one games batch will be approximately 2 to 4 kilobytes in size (depending on browser, local storage can accomodate up to 5 megabytes).
  Previously these two fields were combined as a single monolithic index named saved_games, until it was realised this could quickly become hugely unwieldy.

The button ‘delete game variables’ removes all of these from local storage. If you do so, the data is gone for good. You are strongly recommended to use the ‘save local storage as text’ option before deleting these variables.

Statistics

Ducenti-quinquaginta-sexordle only records statistics for daily mode games, and uses a variable to indicate whether the statistics have been updated on a given day.

• 256completed: {none | daily | hard | daily,hard }
• none: no daily games have been completed yet;
• daily: the normal mode game for the day has been completed;
• hard: the hard mode game for the day has been completed;
• daily,hard: both daily modes have been completed.
• 256statistics: {
• dCurrentStreak, hCurrentStreak: the current number of games won in a row in the daily or daily + hard modes. Cannot exceed the total number of games played. Games need not be sequential.
• dMaxStreak, hMaxStreak: the maximum number of games won in a row in the daily or daily + hard modes. Cannot be less than the corresponding variables for current streak.
• guesses: {d1, d2, d3, ..., d65, h1, h2, h3, ..., h65}
• Each variable records the number of games won with a certain number of guesses in the daily or daily + hard modes. Losing games are recorded using d65 and h65.
• winPercentage: percentage of gamesWon divided by gamesPlayed. Derived by calculation from guesses variables.
• gamesPlayed: sum of all 130 variables in guesses {d1, ..., h65}. Also derived by calculation.
• gamesWon: sum of all but d65 and h65 variables in guesses. Also derived by calculation.
• averageGuesses: average number of guesses taken across all games. Also derived by calculation. }

The button ‘reset statistics’ deletes completed from local storage and resets all of the statistic variables to zero. If you have a previously saved screenshot of your statistics you can restore them using the modifiers on the left of the debug screen.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the meaning of the emoji in the results summary? Why did you do this?

These are very good questions! First, the six colours represent a band of successive, correct answers after a certain number of guesses. Each colour band starts with a heart, continues with squares, and usually finishes with a circle.

• Purple: 💜 = 3rd guess, 🟪 = 4–9, 🟣 = 10
• Blue: 💙 = 11, 🟦 = 12–19, 🔵 = 20
• Green: 💚 = 21, 🟩 = 22–29, 🟢 = 30
• Yellow: 💛 = 31, 🟨 = 32–39, 🟡 = 40
• Orange: 🧡 = 41, 🟧 = 42–49, 🟠 = 50
• Red: ❤️ = 51, 🟥 = 52–62, 🔴 = 64th guess, ❌ = word unsolved after end of game

No... why, oh why, did you do this?!

I’m sorry you feel that way. It’s only a game. (Also, it was a bit of a joke, to go not merely twice, but four times better than as many words as Sexaginta-quattuordle.)

What if I really like having circled numbers in my results summary rather than emoji?

Then you should click the emoji icon in the top right-hand corner (which may look like 🟥 after the game), which will toggle between emoji and circled numbers.

• 1️⃣, 2️⃣, 3️⃣, ..., 🔟, ⑪, ..., ㊽, ㊾, ㊿: these represent the first to fiftieth guesses, as shown.
• ❶, ❷, ❸, ..., ⓬, ⓭ ⓮: these represent the final fourteen guesses, so fifty should be added to each of the numbers shown. (Come on Unicode, get your act together and give me emoji up to 64.)

This game runs very slowly on my phone.

That’s not a question? Please don’t play this on a phone, it runs a lot slower than Sexaginta-quattuordle.

Why does a letter that was previously coloured yellow (or blue) occasionally turn red? Or purple?

This only happens once four letters have been correctly discovered, to indicate a distinct or repeated letter that you might otherwise have overlooked. (If you solve the word in question, they’ll disappear. Or you can click the emoji icon ◻️ in the top right-hand corner of the game, to turn this feature off.)

And yes, it’s deliberate for these to only appear in guesses before your most recent guess, rather than for them to appear immediately.

How do I take advantage of the auto-completion feature?

You don’t need to! The game will automatically complete when you’ve solved enough words to determine the status of every other word.

The game only counts the guesses you made, so other words automatically solved do not count as additional guesses (this is the opposite of Sexaginta-quattuordle).

You should pay attention to the green/blue status lights in the navigation row. Words that do not have the light illuminated need to be solved by the end of the game.

Having said all that, it will usually take more than half the game to discover all of the possible letters in their correct positions, rather like the minimum number of moves in the game kilordle being around thirty guesses.

Ask me more questions on Twitter!

Patch Notes / change log

Ducenti-quinquaginta-sexordle

Version 1 ~ 31 October 2022

• based on version 1.04 of Sexaginta-quattuordle
• minor bug fix, 30 December 2022 (calendar-related fix)
• minor bug fix, 29 February 2024 (and not to do with leap years)

Acknowledgements

Ducenti-quinquaginta-sexordle was coded in Naarm; 64ordle.au is hosted on traditional Wurundjeri lands of the Woi wurrung people of the Kulin nation. I wish to acknowledge the traditional owners of these lands and pay my respects to elders past and present.

Sedecordle, Octordle, Quordle, Dordle, Wordle

Many thanks to the creators of other powers-of-2 Wordles, especially the creator of Sedecordle for advice, and the creator of Dordle, for such a beautiful-looking interface design.

Copyright

As this software project has inherited large sections of code from its predecessors it likewise inherits the same Creative Commons non-commercial share-alike licence that other N-ordles have been released under.

Ducenti-quinquaginta-sexordle (64ordle.au) is copyright © 2022, Catherine Cowie, under the Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike International 4.0 Licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) with contributions by Brad Bednar, Kenneth Crawford, Freddie Meyer, Guilherme Stutz Töws, and others.

The Mersenne Twister algorithm is copyright © 1997 – 2002, Takuji Nishimura and Makoto Matsumoto. All rights reserved.

Privacy policy

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As such 64ordle.au does not retain any user data besides automated, anonymised IP transaction data logged by the web server Apache, which is not used for any further purpose.

Nota bene, games may or may not be playable depending on their scheduled date, which fall into three ranges corresponding to past, present, and future:

• past: games four or more days in the past are playable;
• present: today’s game is playable today, or else you need to wait four days for it to become playable in free mode;
• future: any game scheduled more than two years in the future is playable.