How to Play Pixletters and What the Colored Pixel Clues Mean

Pixletters is a daily word-guessing game where you have five tries to guess a valid five-letter word, and each guess returns a grid of colored pixels instead of the usual green/yellow letter tiles. Blue pixels mark letters in the correct spot; green and red pixels tell you which pixels a letter must or must not contain; gray pixels are still unknown. You can play in the browser or via the Android and iPhone/iPad apps.

The Basic Rules

1. Type a valid five-letter word and submit it.
2. The game shows a pixel grid as feedback.
3. Use the pixel clues to narrow down which letters fit each position.
4. Repeat until you guess the word or use all five tries.

A new daily word becomes available on a countdown (the page shows the next daily words in a timer, e.g. 08:00:00). Your statistics — games played, win percentage, current streak, best streak, and guess distribution — are tracked on the same screen.

Reading the Pixel Clues

The feedback works on two levels: the letter and the pixels inside that letter.

Blue pixels: correct letter, correct spot

If a letter's pixels turn blue, that letter is in the right position. This is the strongest signal and the one to build around.

Green and red pixels: constraints on the letter itself

When a letter is in the wrong spot, the pixels in the top row of that letter get colored to describe what the correct letter in that position must contain:

How the clues accumulate

With every word you enter, more pixel rows get colored. Early guesses give you partial information (often just one corner pixel), and later guesses fill in more of each letter's pixel pattern. The game's own examples show the logic:

• Example 1: If the only clue is a pixel in the top-left corner, then any letter without a top-left pixel is incorrect for that spot.
• Example 2: If a letter must have three pixels in the top row and must not have pixels in the top corners, then any letter with a pixel in a corner is incorrect.

In other words, you are matching letter shapes (their pixel patterns) to positional constraints, not just matching letters.

Game Modes: Classic, PLUS, and PRO

The pixel coloring behaves differently depending on the mode:

• Classic: Pixels are colored individually, as described above.
• PLUS mode: Pixels are colored in rows or columns, according to arrows. Each entered word colors more rows or columns.
• PRO mode: Only one row or column is colored per guess, making the deduction tighter and harder.

If you are new, start with Classic to learn how pixel patterns map to letters before trying PLUS or PRO.

A Practical Approach for Your First Games

• Open with a word that uses five common, distinct letters to maximize the pixel information you collect.
• Treat blue pixels as fixed and avoid reusing that position for a different letter.
• When you see green pixels, think of letters whose shape includes that pixel in that spot; when you see red, eliminate letters with a pixel there.
• Remember that gray means "no information yet" — don't eliminate a letter just because its other pixels are gray.
• Check the guess distribution after a few games to see how many tries players typically need; five tries is tight, so each guess should test a specific hypothesis.

Where to Play

Pixletters is by Nebula Bytes and is available to play in the browser or through the Android and iPhone/iPad apps, linked from the game page. The site also points to a related game, Betweenle.