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.
Common Thread
16 words, 4 hidden groups. Sounds easy until you realise "bass" could go in three of them.
Read about it →Letter Hunch
Guess the phrase with as few letters as possible. 3 puzzles — fewer guesses = more points!
Read about it →Cipher
Crack the substitution cipher. Every letter has been swapped — figure out the mapping. Fastest solve wins.
Read about it →Common questions
Is Five Letters free to play?+
Five Letters is in the free tier of Halftime. Included for every team, no credit card.
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.