Passwordle

Passwordle swaps the dictionary for a keyboard. You are cracking a password, not guessing a word, and the alphabet widens to digits, punctuation and capitals. The on-screen keyboard is a full QWERTY with SHIFT and DELETE. Each of the nine levels opens with an intelligence briefing rather than a blank grid: level 1 explains that a user named Jessie set the password for their work laptop, hates computers and is very lazy, and the answer, across eight slots, is "password". Below the grid the target's MD5 hash sits in red, and every guess prints its own hash underneath it.

1. Read the level briefing: it states who the target is, what the password protects, and which rules the system imposes.
2. Open the on-screen keyboard with the icon at the top left: a complete QWERTY with digits, punctuation, SHIFT and DELETE.
3. Compose a candidate of exactly the length the grid announces: eight slots on level 1, five on level 2.
4. Confirm with ENTER, compare the two hashes below the grid, and refine. You get six rows per level.

The briefing does the work a word list does elsewhere: it hands you a psychological profile and a rule set instead of a dictionary. Level 2 asks for a five-digit PIN guarding a SecureVault phone app and specifies that the app forbids two consecutive identical digits, a constraint that wipes out thousands of combinations before the first guess. What you are reading is a target, not a vocabulary, and the two hashes below the grid keep reminding you that the win condition is a match, not a word.

The familiar three colours, applied to characters rather than letters: green for the right character in the right slot, yellow for present but misplaced, grey for absent, with the on-screen keyboard tracking each verdict. The signature sits below the grid: the target's MD5 hash is printed in red, and your guess prints its own hash under it. When the two lines match, the banner announces "Identity confirmed: ACCESS GRANTED!", verified on level 1, where "password" produced 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99 on both lines at once. The site presents itself as an open-source rework built on react-wordle.

Level campaign

Nine numbered levels, each with its own briefing, its own password length and six tries. A selector opens on a success and lets you jump to any level.

• The briefing is the word list. "Hates computers and very lazy" points straight at the most-used password in the world; the game rewards reading the profile, not scanning a dictionary.
• Take the stated system rules literally. Level 2 forbids consecutive identical digits, which removes a large share of five-digit PINs before you touch the keyboard.
• The grid width announces the answer's length before your first guess (eight slots on level 1, five on level 2), so count the squares before composing.