The brainteaser was launched by The New York Times in 2023 and has since gone on to become the newspaper's second-most played game behind Wordle, another word-based puzzle. In an interview with Newsweek in June,

If you get a letter in the right place for any of the four words, it will light up in green. If a word contains a letter from one of your guesses but it’s in the wrong place, it will appear in yellow. You could always check out the practice games before taking on the daily puzzle.