Five Letters.
Guess the 5-letter word in 6 tries. You already know how this works. You're addicted.
Five Letters is a word game built for the short window between meetings. The round is self-paced, with 1 attempt before the score locks. Letters, language, the occasional pangram. The team-wide leaderboard rebuilds itself daily, so the only thing carrying from yesterday is bragging rights.
- 01GoalGuess the 5-letter word in 6 tries.
- 02How it worksType a word and press Enter. Green = correct letter in the correct spot. Yellow = correct letter, wrong spot. Gray = letter not in the word.
- 03ScoringFewer guesses = higher score. Guess in 1 = 100pts, 2 = 90pts, 3 = 75pts, 4 = 60pts, 5 = 40pts, 6 = 25pts. Fail = 0pts.
- 04TipStart with a word that has common letters like E, A, R, T, S. Use the color feedback to narrow down your next guess.
Cipher
Crack the substitution cipher. Every letter has been swapped — figure out the mapping. Fastest solve wins.
Read about it →Word Scramble
90 seconds. Scrambled letters. Unscramble as many as you can before time's up.
Read about it →Common Thread
16 words, 4 hidden groups. Sounds easy until you realise "bass" could go in three of them.
Read about it →Common questions
Is Five Letters free to play?+
Five Letters is part of Halftime's paid game library. Halftime is free for up to six players, and the full game library unlocks on paid plans starting with Starter.
Do I need to download anything to play Five Letters?+
No. Five Letters runs in any modern browser on desktop or mobile. The version on Halftime is the full game, with no app to install.
Can my whole team play together?+
Yes. Halftime gives every teammate the same daily game and lines up their scores on a shared leaderboard. Connect Halftime to Slack or Microsoft Teams to drop scores into your channel as they come in.
There are plenty more waiting.
Set up your team in under a minute. One daily slot, all six categories, your record book starts the second you arrive.