Guess all sixty-four (yes, we’re not joking, 64) SEXAGINTA~QUATTUORDLE words in seventy (70) 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

C

H

O

M

P

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

R

A

V

E

D

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

F

I

N

K

S

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

When you type a guess in SEXAGINTA~QUATTUORDLE, you will guess that word for all sixty-four words that you are solving. All sixty-four words you are solving will be different.

Red and purple letters

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

1

2

3

4

Guess 1:

S

H

I

N

Y

S

H

I

N

Y

S

H

I

N

Y

S

H

I

N

Y

Guess 2:

T

R

A

C

E

T

R

A

C

E

T

R

A

C

E

T

R

A

C

E

Next guess:

Possible?

w?

R

I

S?

T?

S

o?

g?

g?

Y

f?

E?

R?

R?

Y

T

R

A

N

S

5

6

7

8

Guess 1:

S

H

I

N

Y

S

H

I

N

Y

S

H

I

N

Y

S

H

I

N

Y

Guess 2:

T

R

A

C

E

T

R

A

C

E

T

R

A

C

E

T

R

A

C

E

Next guess:

Possible?

S

p?

E?

l?

l?

v?

I?

p?

E?

R?

w?

R

o?

T?

E

f?

l?

u?

N

k?

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/orange 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

You can navigate between rows using the numbers at the top of the screen.

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

Once all sixty-four indicators are illuminated, the game is ready to be automatically completed and you may be able to finish the game immediately.

You have seventy (70) guesses to get all sixty-four (64) words correct, 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 SEXAGINTA~QUATTUORDLE is available each day!

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, 🟪 = 4–11, 🟣 = 12
• Blue: 💙 = 13, 🟦 = 14–23, 🔵 = 24
• Green: 💚 = 25, 🟩 = 26–35, 🟢 = 36
• Yellow: 💛 = 37, 🟨 = 38–47, 🟡 = 48
• Orange: 🧡 = 49, 🟧 = 50–59, 🟠 = 60
• Red: ❤️ = 61, 🟥 = 62–68, 🔴 = 70th guess, ❌ = word unsolved after end of game

The fewer red emoji, the better your score (it is very hard, but not impossible, to have fewer than four).

As to why I chose these emoji; at first, I wanted to use Unicode’s circled digit/number range (①, ②, ③, ..., ㊽, ㊾, ㊿), however these only extend as far as 50, so the last 20 guesses would need two characters, instead of one. The solution used by Sedecordle, of using two emoji digits for each guess, e.g. 6️⃣4️⃣, would mean the entire stats block would require 128 emoji rather than 64, which is way too much for Twitter. So brevity, colourfulness, and making pretty patterns are the reasons why the results summary is the way it is. If you obtain a good Wordle score it is possible to also share your Sexaginta-quattuordle game in the one tweet.

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 Sedecordle.)

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, ..., ⓲, ⓳ ⓴: these represent the final twenty 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 70.)

Why are there seventy (70) guesses? You do know this game gives you one extra guess?

Yes, I know. I could have followed the other multiple-values-of-n Wordles in having n+5 guesses, however this would have involved an unavoidably large degree of ribaldry in reporting scores. (At one point in testing the game had 72 guesses, however I soon concluded this made the game too easy.)

Like Quordle regarding 8 guesses as a “par” score, likewise you should regard 68 as the 64ordle par score. You’re permitted a double bogey, but beyond that point lies failure.

What is the best strategy for playing Sexaginta-quattuordle?

It may not be the best possible strategy, however if you consider the example on the help page, where guesses 1 and 2 are SHINY followed by TRACE, you could do a lot worse than using those as your first two starter words. You get three vowels plus a pseudo-vowel Y, along with a subset of six of the most common consonants, and in addition you have an approximate one-in-forty-two chance of either starter word being a solution.

From there, if you look over the sixty-four words of the puzzle, some words should start to be guessable, and solving these will gradually reveal more letters in the other words.

Will you add X feature, the same as Z-ordle? (What is your stance towards feature requests?)

Feature requests are fine. If the feature is easy to implement without complicating the codebase, I would need a good reason not to consider adding a requested feature. If the requested feature is sufficiently complicated that adding it would require a large amount of code and makes the game run slower, then I would need a compelling reason why I should add it. There are people who try playing this game on an Android 4, you know. (This isn’t the sort of game that you should try playing on a phone, but I am not inclined to prevent intrepid players from trying.)

Why does a letter that was previously coloured yellow (or orange) 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?

Global settings can be accessed at the end of the game, which determine whether you are asked (or not) when a game reaches a state where it can be automatically completed for you. The aim is that the dialog box asking you whether you wish to complete a game should only appear once per game; if you click Cancel, you should not be asked again. (If you click between modes however the dialog box can be made to reappear.)

When a game is auto-completed the score is counted the same as though you had correctly entered all of the remaining guesses by hand. If you have made too many incorrect guesses this may result in a losing score of 70.

If you wish to use the auto-completion feature to finish games in fewer than 64 guesses, you should pay attention to the green/yellow (or blue/orange) status lights in the navigation row. Words that have the yellow (or orange) light illuminated do not need to be solved immediately, as auto-completion will solve these when all sixty-four lights are illuminated.

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

Sexaginta-quattuordle

Version 1.03 ο ~ 6 August 2022, numeric score; auto-completion; red and purple letters; some minor tweaks such as version numbering.

Version 1.02 ξ ~ 5 June, active emoji map and guess helper; minor cosmetic fixes.

Version 1.01 ν ~ 15 April, light/dark and contrast modes; a variety of other minor changes.

Version 1.0 ~ first public release, 25 March

This Frankensteinian version of “Wordle” uses a wordlist about 370 words larger than the usual game, restoring some words Josh Wardle took out from the original Wordle prior to December 2021. Hard mode (denoted by an asterisk *) uses a very much larger wordlist comprising the entire five-letter subset of words from Collins Scrabble Words, some 12,902 possible solutions.

This hard, Frankensteinian version of “Wordle” uses the entire five-letter wordlist from Collins Scrabble Words. Scores obtained in hard mode are denoted with an asterisk (*).

Previous versions

• 0.9·9 ζ ~ hard mode & frequently asked questions; η ~ more cosmetic fixes; θ ~ reset to new seed counter; κ ~ 4 column variant; λ ~ daily stats; μ ~ widescreen 16 column variant
• 0.9·8 ε ~ keyboard background colour rendering and other css image-gradients
• 0.9·7 δ ~ turn counter (visible) and victory counter (behind the scenes); even more words
• 0.9·5 γ ~ navigation bar, victory lights, private release to testers
• 0.9·4 (& tweaks to 0.9.8) ~ thoroughly fixed emoji block image; more words
• 0.9·2 ~ tested on cloud, lots of cosmetic fixes, new colour emoji stats block
• 0.9 β ~ ramped up another 8 games to get to 24, then 64 games/20 guesses, then the full catastrophe: 64 games/70 guesses. Yikes.
• This is beyond ridiculous
• 0.8 α ~ first 8, then 16 games piggy-backing off Octordle at first, then Sedecordle; 8 Wordles across both game screen and score card, and lots of cosmetic bugs to be fixed.

Other comments

• If you’re not up with the Latin, you can simply call this silliness “sixty-fordle”.

Acknowledgements

Sexaginta-quattuordle was coded in Naarm and nipaluna, and 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.

Sexaginta-quattuordle (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.

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