Pick a word. Bet they cannot get it. Six seats, six hands, the deal rotates — and on your hand you choose the secret word, give the table one clue, and name your price.
The button moves one seat every hand, so everybody sets the word exactly once.
Five cards of four, five or six letters, each with the measured odds that a table cracks it in three. A soft word is safe and cheap. A mean one scares everybody off and wins you nothing.
A letter pinned to a position, or a letter ruled out. Generous clues draw callers and lower your price. The edge is in a word that looks beatable and is not.
Callers get four guesses but only beat you in the first three. Crack it and you pay them. Miss and they pay you. Fold and it costs them the ante — and whatever the table thinks.
In a normal word game a bad puzzle is bad luck. Here it is a decision you made. The best players are not the ones with the biggest vocabulary — they are the ones who know when a clue is a trap and walk away from it.
Hand length is mixed inside a single match, and it is the first thing to read. A four-letter word hides less, so there is less for a guess to grip: tables crack them about a third of the time, while six-letter words fall about two thirds of the time. You already know something about the hand before you have seen the clue.
The deck is 3,576 words, each carrying a pronunciation and a plain-English meaning shown when the hand ends, so a word that beat you is a word you keep. Guesses have to be real words too: 20,429 are accepted, and nonsense probes are refused.
Every tile state carries a shape as well as a colour — a dot for an exact letter, a diamond for one in the wrong place, a cross for one that is not there — so the clue on the board never depends on colour vision.
Every day, the daily table deals identical cards, clues and prices to every player alive. The board ranks decisions, not luck — what you cracked, what you held, and what you were right to refuse.
Top of the daily board, every day.
Standings final at midnight UTC.
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