Cricket wordle: guess the five-letter word

Five Letters is a free daily cricket wordle. Guess today's five-letter word in six tries: a cricket word or a player's surname, and a card above the board tells you which kind. A new word comes at midnight India time, the same for everyone.

How to play

  1. Read the clue card: a fielding word, a batting shot, a bowling word, the kit or the pitch, a match word, or a surname.
  2. Type a five-letter word and press Enter.
  3. Each letter shows whether it is in the right place, in the word elsewhere, or not in it.
  4. Use those colours to narrow it down within six guesses.

Scoring

Solve it in one and you score 100, with 10 less for each guess after that. A word that isn't on the list doesn't use up a guess.

Surname days

On a surname day, the clue names the country of the best known player with that name, and once the word is out you see a short card about him from the records.

Never twice in a year

No answer comes back within a year, so every day's word is new to you.

Questions

Is there a cricket wordle?

Yes. Five Letters is a daily cricket wordle: six tries at a five-letter cricket word or surname, free, and new at midnight India time.

What do the colours mean?

One colour marks a letter in the right place, another a letter in the word but elsewhere, and a third a letter not in the word.

Can I play old words?

A day you missed in the last week can be unlocked in Catch up and played as practice, which never counts towards your streak or points.

Cricket data from Cricsheet, used under the Open Data Commons Attribution licence. cricsheet.org