THE DAILY DON DILEMMA
To Don, or not to Don.
Ten letters. Four guesses. A deeply unnecessary gamble.
50% DONCHEADLE/ 50% real word
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A new day. Another chance at Don. Next puzzle in --:--:-- · Midnight Eastern
THE ENTIRE PREMISE
One man.
Every day, it's a coin flip: DONCHEADLE or a real, ten-letter English word. You get four guesses either way. Spend your first one on Don? That's between you and Don.
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AN EXTREMELY SPECIFIC WORD GAME
How to Don.
Find the ten-letter answer in four guesses .
Half the odds are on DONCHEADLE — his name, without a space. The other half are on a real 10-letter English word . After each guess, the tiles tell you how close you are. D Right letter, right spot.
O Right letter, wrong spot.
N No matching letter left.
Valid guesses are ten-letter dictionary words or DONCHEADLE. Invalid and repeated guesses don't use an attempt. A fresh puzzle arrives at midnight Eastern, and everyone gets the same answer. The 50/50 draw doesn't strictly alternate.
Let's Don this
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YES, THIS IS THE WHOLE IDEA About Donchea-dle.
A tiny daily word game with a very large commitment to one joke. It's free to play. The answer is selected once per day, with an even chance of DONCHEADLE or a word from our checked ten-letter answer list.
Your data Game guesses, statistics, and settings are stored locally in your browser. This version includes Google AdSense code for site verification and advertising setup. The Google script may make requests to Google; see Google’s privacy policy for its data practices. There are no game accounts or forms that collect personal information. The hosting service may process technical request data such as IP addresses and access logs. Local data isn't synced between devices.
The word list We use a curated set of 568 answers and a broader dictionary of more than 35,000 ten-letter guesses. The guess dictionary comes from an-array-of-english-words .
Word list MIT license (The MIT License)
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