Slovolomka — a Serbian Wordle

Every day hides three five-letter Serbian words: an easy one from the thousand most frequent words, a medium one from the next fifteen hundred and a hard one from the next twenty-five hundred. Play one or all three. Six tries each. After each try the tiles change colour: blue for the right letter in the right place, yellow for a letter that is in the word but elsewhere, grey for a letter that is not in the word.

The answer is vrata (door). The guess krava (cow): r, a and the last a are in place, v is in the word, k is not.

Above the board sits a sentence from the dictionary entry with a gap where the word goes: at once on the easy level, after the first row on medium, after the third on hard. A guess can be any form of any Serbian word (knjigu, kućom), not only the dictionary form. A word that is neither in Wiktionary nor in the dictionary doesn't use up a try.

New words appear at midnight, your local time, the same for everyone, so you can share your result without spoilers: the game number, the level, the grid of squares and the link.

• Three words for your level. Easy from the Top 1000 for your first months, medium and hard once easy stops being a challenge.
• A sentence instead of an empty board. Know the word? Type it. Don’t? Open the sentence’s translation; the hint adds a 💡 to your result.
• Open a letter, Wheel-of-Fortune style. Two letters a game: one may be opened after the second row, the other after the fifth. Each opened letter is a 💡 too.
• A misspelling is a lesson too. Type kniga and the game offers knjiga with its translation; one tap uses the word.
• A translation under every guess. An accepted word shows its dictionary form and translation at once; one tap opens the entry. Six tries, six words.
• Word card, warm-up, “My words”. After the game: stress, pronunciation, an example and the entry. Before it: recall yesterday’s word. In the statistics: every word of the day you played, with links.

In Serbian Latin lj, nj and dž are written with two characters but are one letter each; Cyrillic writes them as љ, њ, џ. In the game such a letter takes one tile: knjiga is five letters, k·nj·i·g·a.

The on-screen keyboard has separate lj, nj and dž keys. On a physical keyboard type the two letters in a row, l then j, and they merge into one tile. The switch above the board shows the tiles and the keyboard in Latin or Cyrillic; the choice is remembered.