Terms of Service

Last updated: May 6, 2026

These are the terms of using wrdlcheat.com. Plain language, short list, no surprises.

What this site is

wrdlcheat is a free Wordle helper. You give it a turn count, it gives you a starting word. There’s no account, no payment, no signup. Use it as much as you want.

What you can do

• Use the hints however you want. Type them into Wordle, share them with friends, screenshot them, post them on social media. They’re a tool — use them.
• Scrape, parse, archive, and analyze the site. If you want to study how the hint algorithm performs, fetch the daily JSON, or build a dataset of historical hints for personal or research purposes, that’s fine. We won’t IP-block you for being curious.
• Link to wrdlcheat. No permission needed. Link from anywhere.

What you can’t do

• Don’t republish the hint data commercially. If you scrape wrdlcheat to power your own competing Wordle-helper site (especially one running ads or charging users), that’s a violation of these terms. The hints are free to use; they’re not free to commercially relaunch as someone else’s product.
• Don’t pretend wrdlcheat endorses you. No partnerships, sponsorships, or co-branding implied unless explicitly arranged in writing through [email protected].
• Don’t try to break the site. No DDoSing, no exploit attempts, no automated abuse beyond reasonable scraping. If your scraper is hammering the daily JSON endpoint a thousand times a minute, that’s not analysis — that’s a problem.
• Don’t use wrdlcheat for anything illegal. Generic but real. Don’t use the site to help with anything that’s unlawful in your jurisdiction.

What we provide, and don’t

wrdlcheat is provided “as is.” It’s a side project. We try to keep it accurate, fast, and online, but:

• The daily hint may occasionally be wrong, late, or temporarily unavailable.
• The site may have downtime for maintenance, deployment, or unexpected reasons.
• We may change how the hint algorithm works, what the page looks like, or what features exist, without warning.
• We may eventually shut the site down entirely. If that happens, we’ll try to post a notice on the home page first, but no formal commitment.

There’s no warranty of any kind, expressed or implied. If wrdlcheat breaks your Wordle streak, your computer, your day, or your week, you accept that the use of a free side-project utility comes with no guarantees.

The NYT relationship (again)

wrdlcheat is not affiliated with The New York Times. NYT owns Wordle. wrdlcheat fetches the daily Wordle answer from NYT’s own publicly-accessible data and uses it to compute hints. If NYT ever changes how they publish the data — or asks us to stop — wrdlcheat will adapt or shut down accordingly.

These terms don’t grant you any rights to NYT’s content. NYT’s terms apply to NYT’s content. wrdlcheat’s terms apply to wrdlcheat’s site, design, and code.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. The “Last updated” date at the top reflects the most recent change. Material changes will be summarized in this section so you can see what changed without re-reading the entire document.

If you keep using wrdlcheat after the terms change, you’re agreeing to the new version. If you don’t agree with a change, the right move is to stop using the site.

Contact

Questions about these terms, or anything else: [email protected]. Replies aren’t guaranteed (per the Contact page), but we read everything.