How to Play Reversle

At the start of the game, you will see a target answer word at the top and a pre-colored board grid with 3 rows of green, yellow, and gray tiles. You must enter valid five-letter words in each row that match the color requirements. For example, if a tile in row 1 is yellow, your word for that row must contain that letter from the target word, but not in that position. You win when all rows are filled with words that perfectly match the grid's color distribution.

Reversle vs Regular Wordle — The Logic Is Completely Reversed

You Are Given the Answer and the Color Board

In standard Wordle, the grid starts blank and you guess to find the word. In Reversle, the final word is public, and the color grids are predetermined.

Your Job Is to Work Backwards From the Clues

Reversle is a game of deduction, testing your spelling and grammar construction in reverse. You must work backward from the final answer to find matching vocabulary words.

What Makes Reversle Unique?

Tests Deductive Reasoning in a New Direction

By shifting from word solving to puzzle matching, Reversle exercises a different region of the brain, forcing you to think about letters' positions relative to the target word from the start.

Speed Is the Challenge — Solve It as Fast as Possible

Since there are only three rows to fill, the main challenge is speed. Experienced players compete to find valid words in the shortest time possible.

Reversle Strategy — How to Fill In the Grid Efficiently

Start From the Last Row and Work Backwards

Often, the row closest to the target word contains the most green tiles, which restricts your letter choices. Solving this row first locks in key consonants and helps clarify your choices for the upper rows.

Match Colors to Constrain Possible Guesses

Pay close attention to gray tiles. If a letter in your guess is gray, it must not exist anywhere in the target word. Use this constraint to filter your mental dictionary.

Use Word Frequency to Pick Likely Guesses

Stuck on a tricky row? Think of common prefix/suffix letter patterns (like -ING, -ED, -CH, -SH) that align with the color grid structure to narrow down candidates.

Reversle Daily vs Practice Mode

Quardle.org offers unlimited practice plays of Reversle, allowing you to train your brain on reverse spelling rules and speed up your logical deduction.

Try Other Wordle Variant Games

Interested in more logic twists? Avoid guessing the word entirely in Survivle, try playing without the letter E in QWRTL, or play standard Wordle Classic!

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