About Fivestring
Fivestring is a free daily five-letter word puzzle from Infinity Studios. Every device gets one new word a day, chosen from a curated list of common, everyday English words — no obscure trivia, no proper nouns, just words a general adult would recognize on sight. You get six tries to guess it, with color-coded feedback after every guess to steer you toward the answer. When you're done for the day, switch over to Practice mode for unlimited rounds with fresh random words, any time you like.
How to Play
Type any valid five-letter word and press Enter (or tap Enter on the on-screen keyboard) to lock in a guess. Each of your six rows gets its own attempt, and after every guess the tiles flip to reveal how close you were:
- Green means that letter is correct and in the right spot.
- Gold means that letter is in the word, but in a different spot.
- Grey means that letter isn't in the word at all.
Words with repeated letters are scored carefully: Fivestring first marks every letter that's in the exact right position green, then works through the rest of your guess to color any remaining correct letters gold — so a repeated letter only lights up as many times as it actually appears in the answer. The on-screen keyboard remembers what you've learned, coloring each key by the best result you've seen for that letter so far. Solve the word within six guesses to win; if your sixth guess isn't a match, the answer is revealed and your run ends there. There's no "hard mode" restriction — feel free to guess any valid word at any point, whether or not it uses hints you've already uncovered.
Streaks & The Curve
Fivestring runs entirely in your browser with no account and no server, so "today's" puzzle is based on your own device's local date rather than a shared server clock. That means players in different time zones — or anyone who changes their system clock — may occasionally see a different word on a given calendar day. It's a deliberate tradeoff for keeping the game simple, fast, and free to run, and we wanted to state it plainly rather than pretend otherwise.
Your streak counts how many days in a row you've successfully solved the daily puzzle. It grows by one every time you solve that day's word, and resets to zero if you fail a puzzle — or if you leave a puzzle unfinished and a new day begins before you come back to it. Your max streak, games played, win percentage, and guess-distribution chart are all tracked locally in your browser's storage and never leave your device.
After each daily puzzle, you'll see a panel called The Curve with a small bar chart labeled "How this puzzle typically plays out." To be fully upfront: this chart is simulated, not real player data. Fivestring has no backend and no way to see how anyone else is actually doing, so instead we generate an illustrative distribution — loosely modeled on how a word-guessing game like this tends to play out — with a small deterministic wobble tied to the day's puzzle number, so the chart looks the same to everyone checking it on the same day, without pretending to be a live scoreboard. Your own results, shown right below it in Your Stats, are the only real numbers on the page.