4 boards, 9 shared guesses — every word you type hits all four
Four hidden words, one shared keyboard. Every guess you submit is applied to all four boards simultaneously, each board coloring its own feedback. Solve a board and it locks with a checkmark; the rest keep accepting your guesses. Win by clearing all four within nine guesses.
A dedicated quadrant keyboard shows each key split four ways — one sub-cell per board — so you can see at a glance that R is placed on board two, present on board three, and dead on the others.
Win base 1,000 plus one point per second under the ten-minute cap. The completion bonus scales: each solved board contributes 50 points (4/4 = 200), and you keep that partial credit even on a loss — solving three of four scores far better than solving one.
Nine guesses for four words means your average solve must take 2.25 rows. The information you extract per row, not your vocabulary, is what decides QuadWord games.
Open with three preplanned words that share no letters — a classic trio covers 15 distinct letters. After those three rows you will usually see most of every board’s skeleton, and the remaining six guesses become four short endgames.
Always attack the board with the most purple tiles. Each solve shrinks the problem: your subsequent guesses stop "wasting" rows on a finished board, and the quadrant keyboard gets visually simpler.
Every solving guess is also an information guess for the other boards. When two candidate words would both solve board one, pick the one whose letters tell you more about boards two through four — that free information is the entire skill ceiling of this mode.
With nine rows there is no budget for a coin-flip guess that only one board cares about. If a board has you stuck between three candidates, leave it and work elsewhere — a later solve elsewhere often disambiguates it for free.
Every mode ships a fresh daily puzzle at your local midnight — the same words for every player worldwide, with a daily leaderboard per mode. Play today's QuadWord puzzle.