Rowdle

Rowdle stacks five rows of five mixed letters, already colored before the first move. There is nothing to type or submit: you swap letters two by two until you reassemble the five words. The rule shown next to the board fits in one sentence; rows count, columns do not, which allows moving a letter anywhere within its row. The daily grid is numbered; the recorded grid bore number 147.

1. Read the colors already present: the board is revealed as soon as you open it, before any swap.
2. Slide a tile onto another to swap two letters (the panel refers to swiping between tiles).
3. Recheck the colors after each swap and continue until the five rows are entirely green, watching the swap counter beneath the board.

There is no word to guess here; everything is on the table from the start: Rowdle turns the letter game into an arrangement problem where economy of moves is the whole point.

Three colors, explained in the legend: green for the right letter in the right place, yellow for a letter that does belong in that row but not in that position, gray for a letter that belongs to another row. A peculiarity of Rowdle: this state is visible permanently, without submission. At move zero, the recorded board was already fully colored, before the first swap.

Daily grid

The game opened by default, numbered and saved in the browser under an English namespace.

Puzzles banner

A banner of links under the rules offers mini, maxi, ???, es and pl next to the daily grid; the recorded play did not open any of these variants.

• A gray tile conveys twofold information: it not only indicates the letter is misplaced, but that it must leave the row.
• Since columns don't count, a swap between two rows is the only move that solves two problems at once.
• Colors are recalculated without validation, so each swap is read immediately instead of costing an attempt.