Free five-letter word game, daily and unlimited

Your own five-letter word game

You'll describe the game to a free AI assistant, paste what it writes into a file, and open it in your browser. No coding needed, and once it works you can change anything about it just by asking.

• A six-row grid of letter tiles that flip to green, yellow or grey
• Repeated letters coloured correctly, the part most home-made versions get wrong
• An on-screen keyboard that shows which letters you've used, so it works on a phone
• A word of the day that's the same for everyone, plus unlimited play
• Stats, streaks and a spoiler-free grid of coloured squares to share

Good for: a daily puzzle for the family group chat, a game using this week's spelling words, a word game in another language, or a first project that's more than a toy.

What you need

Build it in five steps

Step 1 gives you a simple version that works, and each step after it adds more. Yours will look a bit different from the one above, because the AI writes its own version each time.

1. Ask for the basic game

   Copy this prompt into your AI assistant:

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   I don't know how to code. Please make me a five-letter word guessing game that runs in a web browser.
   
   Requirements:
   - ONE single HTML file (HTML, CSS and JavaScript together), no external libraries. I will save it and double-click it.
   - The game secretly picks a word from a list of about 300 common five-letter English words that you write into the file. No names, no plurals and nothing rude.
   - The player has six tries. Show a grid of 6 rows of 5 big square tiles.
   - The player types with their keyboard: letters fill the current row, Backspace deletes, Enter checks a full row.
   - After each guess, colour every tile: green if the letter is in the right place, yellow if it's in the word but somewhere else, grey if it isn't in the word.
   - Get repeated letters right: colour all the green letters first, then only colour a letter yellow if the answer still has an unmatched copy of it.
   - When I win, say well done. If I run out of tries, show the word. Then offer a Play again button.
   
   Please give me the complete file in one code block, then tell me in simple steps how to save and open it.

   Copy the code, paste it into your text editor and save it as word-game.html. Double-click it and type your first guess.

   Test the tricky bit: guess a word with a double letter, such as SPEED or LLAMA. If the answer only has one E, only one of your Es should light up.

2. Add an on-screen keyboard

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   That works, thank you. Please add an on-screen keyboard under the grid, in QWERTY order with Enter and Delete keys, so the game works on phones and tablets without opening the phone's own keyboard. Colour each key like the tiles so I can see which letters I've used (green beats yellow, yellow beats grey). Flip the tiles over one at a time when a guess is checked, and shake the row if a guess isn't allowed. Make everything fit on a phone screen without scrolling sideways. Send me the complete updated file.

   Always ask for the complete file. Replace everything in word-game.html, save, and refresh the tab (F5 or Cmd+R).

3. Only accept real words

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   At the moment any five letters are accepted. Please only accept real English words. Check each guess with the free dictionary at https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/api/v2/entries/en/ followed by the word (it needs no key). If the word isn't found, shake the row and show "Not in the word list" without using up a try. Always accept words from my own answer list. If the dictionary can't be reached or takes more than 3 seconds, accept the guess anyway so the game still works offline. Send me the complete updated file.

   Why a dictionary website? The game at the top of this page has 12,500 words built in, so it works offline. An AI assistant can't type out that many words in one reply, so checking a free online dictionary is the easy way to get the same result.

4. Add a word of the day and unlimited play

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   Please add two modes, with a button for each at the top:
   - Today's word: everyone gets the same word on the same day. Work it out from today's local date (count the days since 1 January 2026 and use that to pick from the list), so there's no server and the word changes at midnight. Number each day's puzzle. Save my guesses in localStorage so refreshing the page doesn't lose them, and only allow one game per day.
   - Unlimited: a random word each game, with a New word button.
   Remember which mode I last used. Send me the complete updated file.

   Tip: before this step, ask the AI to shuffle the order of the word list once. Otherwise days next to each other can give words that start with the same letter.

5. Add stats and a result to share

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   Please add a stats panel, saved in localStorage, with games played, win percentage, current streak, best streak and a small bar chart of how many guesses each win took. Keep separate stats for Today's word and Unlimited.
   
   At the end of a game, add a "Copy result" button that copies a spoiler-free grid of coloured squares (🟩 🟨 ⬜), one line per guess, with the puzzle number and my score at the top, like "Word game #12 4/6", so I can paste it into a message. Send me the complete updated file.

   Share it: put the file online for free with our free hosting guide, and the whole family can play the same word each day.

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