Naruto Wordle

Naruto Wordle is a free daily word puzzle on narutodle.app: you guess a Naruto character's name in six tries, and after each guess every letter is marked ✓ right place, ≈ in the name but misplaced, or ✗ not in the name.

The board shows how many letters today's name has before you type anything. Each guess must be a call name from the site's roster with that same length, and the tiles fill with colour once you enter it. Green with ✓ means the right letter in the right spot. Gold with ≈ means the letter is in the name, somewhere else. Grey with ✗ means the letter is not in the name at all.

Stars depend on how quickly you solve it: one or two tries earn 3★, three or four earn 2★, and five or six earn 1★. Naruto Wordle has its own daily answer, picked independently of Classic, Silhouette, Riddle and every other mode, so solving one tells you nothing about another.

We use the word Wordle to describe the format: guess a word, read the coloured letters, try again. narutodle.app is a fan project with no connection to The New York Times or its Wordle game, and the answers here are Naruto names, not English words.

The rules take about as long to read as one round, and the general how to play guide covers the other modes on the site.

1. 1

   Check the length

   Open today's Naruto Wordle at narutodle.app/wordle. The row of empty tiles tells you how many letters the call name has, anywhere from four to eight.

2. 2

   Enter a character's name

   Type the call name of any character with that many letters on the on-screen keyboard. Spell it without macrons: CHOJI, not Chōji.

3. 3

   Read the tiles

   Each letter turns green with ✓ (right letter, right place), gold with ≈ (in the name, wrong place) or grey with ✗ (not in the name). The symbol is always there, so you never need to tell colours apart.

4. 4

   Narrow it down

   The keyboard below the board shows the best result each letter has earned so far. Keep green letters where they are, move the gold ones, drop the grey ones, then name a character who fits.

5. 5

   Solve and share

   Find the name within six tries: one or two earn 3★, three or four 2★, five or six 1★. The result card shows your stars, your stats and a countdown to the next Naruto Wordle, with a button to share your result.

If you enter something that is not a character name of the right length, the game answers with a “not a character name” message and the try is not counted. Only real names use up your six. That makes typos harmless, but it also means you cannot fill a row with random vowels to see what lights up.

Pairing colour with a symbol matters more here than in most modes. A green tile and a gold tile can look alike to players with red-green colour blindness, so every Naruto Wordle tile carries its ✓, ≈ or ✗ as well. You can play the whole game reading the symbols alone.

Naruto names do not fit the five-letter mould of a word game, so Naruto Wordle needs a clear rule for what counts as a name. The call name is the first word of the character's English name, written in capitals with the macrons removed. Chōji becomes CHOJI and Jūgo becomes JUGO. Sasuke Uchiha is SASUKE, and Tsunade is simply TSUNADE.

A few characters are known by a different part of their name, and those are set by hand: Rock Lee is LEE. Titles are not names, so words such as Third or Great never appear as guesses or answers.

The guess dictionary holds 202 call names, one for every valid name on the roster. That list is why guesses must be real names. In a word game you can throw out a guess packed with common letters; here every guess has to be a character, so testing letters and recalling the cast happen in the same move. A typo or an invented string gets the “not a character name” message and costs nothing.

Answers come from a smaller pool: 92 well-known characters who have a full dossier page and a call name of four to eight letters that no other character shares. That is about three months of daily Naruto Wordle puzzles without a repeat. Unique names matter because a shared call name would let one answer stand for two people.

Six letters is the most common length, with 32 of the 92 answers, and eight is the rarest, with seven. Some famous names are too long to be answers at all: SHIKAMARU, HASHIRAMA and OROCHIMARU run to nine or ten letters. They are valid names in the dictionary, but because every answer has four to eight letters and a guess must match the answer's length, a nine-letter Naruto Wordle board never comes up.

A worked example. Say today's Naruto Wordle answer is KAKASHI, seven letters. Guess one is HIRUZEN, a seven-letter name with three vowels: H ≈, I ≈, R ✗, U ✗, Z ✗, E ✗, N ✗. Two letters are in the name but elsewhere, and five are gone, including U and E.

Guess two, KANKURO, repeats N, U and R, which are already out, but its new letters pay off: K ✓, A ✓, N ✗, K ≈, U ✗, R ✗, O ✗. The name starts KA, and the gold second K means another K sits somewhere other than the fourth spot. Seven letters, starting KA, with a second K, an H and an I, and no E, N, O, R, U or Z: KAKASHI fits. Guess three turns every tile ✓, and three tries earns 2★.

The second row holds the key lesson: when one letter shows ✓ in one spot and ≈ in another within a single guess, the answer contains it at least twice.

• 一

  Open with a vowel-rich name. Names in the series are full of vowels, so start with one that tests several. HINATA and SAKURA are good six-letter openers; on a seven-letter board, DEIDARA or TSUNADE do the same job.

• 二

  Let the length make the first cut. The tile count is free information. Six letters is the most common answer length, with 32 answers; four letters has only 10 and eight letters only seven, so a long Naruto Wordle board leaves few candidates.

• 三

  Expect repeated letters. KAKASHI has two K's and two A's, GAARA three A's, TOBIRAMA two. A letter is marked only as many times as it appears, so if one copy in a guess is coloured and a second copy is grey, the answer has exactly one.

• 四

  Think of dossier characters first. Every answer has a full dossier page, like Kakashi Hatake. Deeper names in the dictionary work as letter probes, but the answer will be a familiar face from the character roster.

• 五

  Move the gold, keep the green. A ≈ letter cannot sit where it just was. Move it, keep every ✓ letter in place, and check the on-screen keyboard, which shows each letter's best result so far, before you type.

• 六

  Play to the star bands. Stars come in pairs of tries: 1–2, 3–4 and 5–6. Guess two is your last shot at 3★, so make it a real candidate. Guesses three and four pay the same, so if two names fit equally well, try either one third; the other still earns 2★ on try four.

None of this needs a word list. Naruto Wordle asks for the cast, spelled correctly, and the patience to read every tile.

Every daily game on narutodle.app ends with a character, but each hands you a different kind of clue. Classic Narutodle gives you attribute columns. Bond Trail gives you relationships, one at a time. Naruto 20 Questions gives you a board of 24 faces and a menu of yes/no questions. Naruto Wordle gives you letters and nothing else.

Naruto Wordle pairs well with Classic. Classic asks you to work out who a character is from their profile; Naruto Wordle asks whether you can spell the name once it comes to mind. Each mode picks its own answer every day.