Make a five-letter guess
Type five alphabetic letters and submit. The game rejects incomplete entries and characters outside A to Z before scoring. Green means a letter is in the correct position, gold means one unmatched copy belongs elsewhere, and grey means that guessed copy is not available after exact and present matches are counted. You have six accepted guesses, so an invalid entry does not become evidence about the answer. Begin with a word you know is accepted and read the whole row before entering the next guess.
Read repeated letters correctly
The board scores exact positions first. It then compares the remaining guessed letters with the remaining answer letters and marks only the available quantity as present. Suppose the answer contains one E and a guess contains two. If one E is green, the second cannot also be gold because no unmatched E remains. A grey duplicate therefore does not always mean the letter is absent from the answer. It can mean the guess used more copies than the answer contains. Track a minimum and possible maximum for repeated letters instead of treating each tile independently.
Choose a useful next guess
Keep confirmed green positions, move gold letters into untested positions, and avoid a grey letter when its quantity is already exhausted. When several positions remain uncertain, prefer an accepted guess that tests multiple unresolved letters while respecting everything already learned. Do not move a green letter simply to include more new letters unless you are intentionally using a probe and understand that it cannot be the answer. Before submitting, state what the guess will distinguish. A useful guess should separate at least two remaining word patterns rather than merely resemble one favorite candidate.
Use practice deliberately
After the reveal, find the first guess that failed to reduce uncertainty. Write the known pattern before that turn, the candidate you chose, and one alternative that would have tested more positions or letter quantities. Replaying immediately is useful only when you carry that named decision into the next round. A short session can focus on one skill, such as tracking duplicate letters or protecting confirmed positions. Stop when guesses become automatic, then review the saved board instead of treating more rounds as proof of learning.
What the result means and what is stored
A win records that this browser solved one Wordmap practice answer within six accepted guesses. It is not a vocabulary score, reading assessment, or official Wordle result. Rounds played, wins, and best streak stay in local storage on this browser. Clearing site data removes them, and another device will have a separate record. Solo results do not enter public Duel rankings. Wordmap does not require an account for practice and does not claim access to another publisher's answer schedule.