Puzzle Cottage
Why these are educational, not cheating tools
The Wordle Starter Ranker shows you which opener is best and why — not what today’s answer is. Use it to internalize the math, then play with confidence. Knowing SALET wins by 0.04 bits over CRANE doesn’t change today’s puzzle; it changes how you think about openers.
The Anagram Explorer is for vocabulary learning. Plug in letters from a puzzle you’ve already attempted, see what you missed, learn the patterns. Don’t use it to brute-force a daily puzzle — you’ll skip the actual cognitive workout that makes word games worth playing.
What we deliberately don’t build
- Wordle solvers. Tools that take your guesses and reveal the answer remove the entire point.
- Sudoku solvers. Same logic.
- Connections cheat tools. Same.
- Crossword answer lookups. Use a dictionary; that's a different category of tool.
Our position: brain games are interesting because of the cognitive work, not the answers. Tools that bypass the work bypass the point.
Roadmap
- Letter-frequency visualizer (English, by position, with word-game-specific filters)
- Sudoku difficulty rater (paste your puzzle, get a rated difficulty score)
- Standalone typing-speed test (separate from the Type Racer game, no daily-puzzle constraint)
- Crossword fill-helper (different from a crossword solver — suggests themes for crossword constructors)
Related
- Word lists — the underlying data
- Open data — downloadable JSON/text exports
- Strategy tips — in-depth game guides
- Wordle statistics — data deep-dive