Dutch word gameNederlands woordspel
Elke dag een nieuw Nederlands woord. Zes pogingen. Vijf letters. Geen account, geen kosten.
Play today's Dutch word →How a Dutch board works
One tile holds one letter. PLAAT is five tiles.
Every guess is answered colour by colour: green where a tile is exactly right, gold where the tile belongs in the word but not in that place, and grey where it does not belong at all. Six guesses, one word a day, and the same word for everyone playing in Dutch that day — it is generated from the date, not fetched from a server, so it is the same on every device and it works with no connection.
What is different about Dutch
Dutch is spelled with a Latin alphabet but plays quite differently from English, because its vowel doubling is systematic: AA, EE, OO and UU are ordinary, so a confirmed vowel is worth far less here than it is in an English board. IJ is typed as two letters, which is how it is written and how it is counted.
The keyboard and the word list
The keyboard is the standard Dutch layout, and it colours itself as you learn which letters are out.
The Dutch list is five letters throughout, from public frequency data, hand-checked. Five letters — the Dutch list has one size.
Ten more word games, four of them in Dutch
The day's word is the start. Four other games meet it in Dutch itself: Search Wordz is a word search with no empty box — swipe the hidden words across, down, diagonally and backwards — Wordz Hunt hides its letters in a drawn scene to tap around in, Set Wordz is a sliding-tile puzzle you push into shape until the words appear, and Chill Wordz is a blast board with no clock and no way to lose. Six more play in English — a crossword, a letter sudoku, snooker, archery, an arcade catch and a bunny maze.
And no reading needed for the rest: three brain games with ten levels each (Hide & Seek, Wall Rush, Cube Fold), the board games Ashta Chamma, Wagh Bakri — tigers and goats, also called Puli Meka and Aadu Puli Aattam — and Paramapadam, the Indian Snakes & Ladders (slangen en ladders), to play against a bot or with family by room code and a group call, and the festival games, newest the Target Ravan, Block Blast, Tower Stack and Road Rush specials for Dussehra, Diwali and Halloween. Weekly leaderboards, with an avatar of your choice. Full rules are on the how to play page.
No account, nothing collected
There is no sign-up. Your streak, statistics and settings live in your own browser or phone and are never sent anywhere; the privacy policy sets out exactly what is and is not counted. Padamz installs to a home screen and keeps working offline, and there is an Android app as well. Both are free.
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