Go Forword
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Go Forword
Transform the starting word into the target word using as few steps as possible. This is a daily puzzle game of adding, removing, and changing letters.
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I. How It Works
Every day, 00:00 at your time zone, you will be greeted with 2 words.
0
no
As demonstrated above, your target word is “ye,” and your starting word is “no.” Your goal is to modify the starting word, 1 letter at a time, until it becomes the target word.
Below the target word is a row of dots. Those are your chances. For this question, you have a maximum of 8 chances, and the recommended solution is within 5 steps. You can tell by the size and the shade of the dots.
(This is just an example. I made up the numbers. But in the game it is all carefully calculated, and they are different for each puzzle.)
You can earn a trophy emoji (
) if you solved the puzzle within the recommended number of steps.
1
not
You can add letters.
2
net
3
yet
4
yes
You can substitute letters.
5
ye-
You can delete letters.
With these 3 simple methods, the puzzle is solved!
You can use them during any step, on any letter. The only constraint is you may only use it 1 at a time.
Out of kindness, you can undo your latest step, and no penalties would be given.
There is no official solution. So be creative! You can also seek alternate solutions after you’ve solved your puzzle. However, only your first attempt would be recorded.
II. Difficulty
The game provides 5 tiers of difficulties, Easy, Medium, Hard, Advanced, and Scholar. It progresses throughout the week.
During the weekend, there are 2 puzzles available. One easier, one harder. You can unlock the harder puzzle once you’ve cleared the easier one. You can switch between them by clicking on the label on the left of the question mark that opens this tab.
III. The Time Traveller
You can access previous puzzles (up to 20th May, 2026) after you solve the one for today.
This is a time-limited feature. Play it while you can!
IV. Word List
The game uses 2 word lists to create the puzzles and allow players to submit guesses.
The first word list is a small set of common word list. It was modified from Josh Kaufman’s Google 10,000 English (No Swears) on Github.
first20hours/google-10000-englishThere were too many technical jargons and American city names, and therefore I manually stripped them out, then added in words from the Headwords of the First 10,000 Words list.
Finally, with a little help of 2 python libraries, lemminflect and bremme.spelling, I completed the new list with every possible variations of the words, including tenses, plurals, and British/American spellings etc. This new common words list consists of over 31 thousand words.
Starting and target words are pulled only from this list, and every puzzle is guaranteed solvable using purely words in this list. Once you do that, you’ll earn a speaking-head emoji (
).
Of course, what if you can’t think of the next step and have to mentally invent words you never knew existed, or in the unlikely event that you possess a frankly alarming surplus of redundant terminology, do not despair. I have integrated a mega-lexicon of over 370 thousand entries. It is specifically optimised to validate your niche, esoteric vocabulary choices and transform them into viable puzzle solutions.
The gigantic database was based on words_alpha.txt, organised by dwyl.
dwyl/english-wordsV. Roadmap
Stats, streak, Discord account login, and leaderboard.
If you have any other suggestions, you may contact me on Discord via my server. Have fun solving!