Change one letter at a time. Every step a real word.
COLDS
CORDS
CARDS
WARDS
Green = that letter is already in the right place. The dot marks the letter you swapped.
Tap a letter to aim at it, type its replacement, then press Enter to play the word.
The shortest route down is always exactly 5 steps. Match it and you have played the day perfectly.
You get 10 moves. Run out and the puzzle is over.
No take-backs — but a word that isn't accepted costs nothing, so guessing is free.
Five is a floor, not a target. Every puzzle is checked against all 14,550 playable words before it is used, so no shortcut exists: nobody can beat 5, and everybody is playing the same puzzle.