What is a Dordle?
Dordle is a word puzzle in which you solve two hidden five-letter words at once, with every guess applied to both boards and seven guesses to finish them.
Also known as: double Wordle, two-board word game.
How do you solve a Dordle?
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Open as if there were one board
With two boards the first guess is still a letter-coverage word played blind. Both boards score it independently, so one opener gives you two rows of information. Look at both before choosing the second word, because a letter that is grey on one board may be green on the other.
- 02
Solve the easier board first
After two guesses one board is usually further along. Commit to it: a solved board stops taking rows, and every guess after that is spent on a single board with two spare rows already in hand. Splitting attention evenly is the way to finish neither.
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Read the other board while you do
A guess aimed at board one still scores on board two. Where you have a free choice between two candidates for board one, pick the one whose letters also test something on board two, so that the finishing guess doubles as an opener for what is left.
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Keep one spare row
Seven guesses for two boards is five for the first plus two for the second only if the first is solved cleanly. Track how many rows the second board will need from its current state, and if it needs three, use a guess now that narrows both boards rather than committing to one.
Common Dordle mistakes
- Ignoring the second board's colours. Every row lands on both boards, and information you do not read is a guess you have effectively thrown away.
- Reading the keyboard as if it were about one board. The shared keyboard shows the best result a letter has earned on any board, so a green key may be green only on the board you are not working on; read the rows themselves before you type.
- Alternating boards each row. Half-finishing two boards spends the budget without closing either; finishing one frees the rest of the rows for the other.
- Forgetting that a solved board stops scoring. Once a board is green it takes no more rows, so only the unsolved board's colours matter from then on.
Where does Dordle come from?
Dordle was made by Guilherme Töws in early 2022, weeks after Josh Wardle's Wordle had become a daily habit for millions and shortly before its sale to The New York Times. It was the first of the multi-board games: the same rules, the same colours, but two answers sharing one list of guesses. Quordle, Octordle and Sedecordle followed as the idea was pushed to four, eight and sixteen boards.
Dordle on this site is the site's own implementation of that puzzle type, and it is the same engine as its larger siblings at the smallest size. The words are drawn from the published answer list, a board stops taking rows the moment it is solved, and the guess budget is the board count plus five, which for two boards is seven.
How many guesses do you get in Dordle?
Seven. Every multi-board game here gives the number of boards plus five, so two boards get seven rows, shared between both words.
Is Dordle free, and when do the words change?
Dordle is free and needs no sign-up. A new pair of words is set every day at midnight UTC. There is no timed mode for the multi-board games; the timed runs use single-board variations only. An account is only needed for the leaderboard. It plays on a phone as well as a desktop.