Quordle felt manageable. Octordle pushed you harder. Duotrigordle is where sanity waves goodbye. The premise is the same as every multi-board Wordle variant — guess five-letter words using colour-coded clues — except here you’re solving thirty-two boards at once. Every single word you type applies to all 32 simultaneously, and you have 37 guesses to crack all of them before the game ends. It is, by any reasonable measure, completely ridiculous. It’s also brilliant.
Built by developer thesilican and released in 2022, Duotrigordle is open source and has gathered a devoted following of puzzle masochists who consider Octordle a warm-up. The 32 boards are displayed in a scrollable grid, each one tracking its own independent colour feedback for every guess. You can scroll between them freely, which means part of the challenge is just mentally tracking where you are with each board and which letters you still need to crack. The sheer information density is overwhelming at first and deeply satisfying once you develop a system.
The game offers three daily modes to match different kinds of madness. The standard mode shows all 32 boards at once from the start. Sequence mode unlocks boards one at a time — you only see the next board after solving the previous one, which demands a different approach entirely. Jumble mode randomises the first three target words, throwing another variable into the chaos. Practice mode removes the daily limit, letting you work through additional puzzles whenever you have time and energy to spare.
Despite the seemingly impossible scale, the mathematics of 37 guesses across 32 boards is more forgiving than it sounds. Early guesses serve as broad reconnaissance, eliminating letters across all boards simultaneously. The real skill is recognising when a board is nearly solved and pivoting to prioritise it before running out of guesses, while keeping enough flexibility to finish the trickier boards. It’s multi-tasking taken to a logical extreme, and somehow it works.
How To Play Duotrigordle
Type any valid five-letter word and press Enter. That guess applies to every one of the 32 boards simultaneously. Each board shows its own colour feedback: green for correct letter in the correct position, yellow for correct letter in the wrong position, grey for letters that don’t appear in that board’s word. The keyboard at the bottom tracks the best result each letter has achieved across all boards.
Start with information-gathering words that cover a wide spread of common letters — CRANE, SLOTH, WIPED are popular openers that eliminate large chunks of the alphabet quickly. Use your first few guesses to build a picture across all 32 boards before targeting specific words. Scroll through the grid regularly to check your progress and spot which boards are close to solved.
You have 37 guesses to solve all 32 words. Prioritise boards where you’re close to a solution but don’t neglect the trickier ones — leaving difficult boards for last with few guesses remaining is how runs end. When you finish (or run out of guesses), share your result and see how your attempt compares to the rest of the daily leaderboard.
