6-letter words, 7 guesses, and a hint system with real costs
Same color feedback as Classic, but the answers are six letters long and you get seven guesses. The sixth letter changes the texture of the puzzle more than you would expect: there are more candidate words, but they are also more structured — prefixes, suffixes, and double letters appear far more often.
Six introduces hints. You can reveal one vowel and one consonant from the answer; each reveal appears as its own row on the board showing the letter in its correct position, and each costs 150 points from your final score. A hint row also consumes nothing from your seven guesses — the price is purely in points.
Win base 1,000, plus one point per second under the six-minute cap, plus 200 for completion. Six also pays a guess bonus that Classic does not: 90 points for every unused guess. Solve in four and you bank 270 on top of everything else.
Hints subtract 150 each at the end. The math matters: a hint that saves you two full guesses usually nets positive (180 guess bonus plus faster time vs. 150 cost), while a hint taken out of mild frustration on row two almost never pays for itself.
Six-letter answers are full of -ING, -ED, -ER, -LY, RE-, UN-, and double letters. Once you have two or three placed letters, ask which prefix or suffix frames fit before brute-forcing letter positions. RELOAD, HONEST, BRIGHT — most answers decompose into a familiar chunk plus a stem.
Six-letter words usually carry two or three vowels. An opener like SOIREE or AROUSE maps the vowel skeleton immediately, and the consonant frame falls out from there.
By mid-game you usually know the vowels from normal play — they are only five letters and appear constantly. The consonant reveal eliminates a much larger candidate space, so if you are taking exactly one hint, take that one.
With seven guesses and a 90-point-per-guess bonus, rows one and two can be pure information plays. Burning both on coverage words still leaves five solving rows — a luxury Classic never gives you.
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