Hurdle Cache Builder
Make your own Hurdle cache, a five-letter word scored the way Mastermind scores a code.
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Free, just a username and passphrase, no email. Caches you build show up in My Caches so you can reopen and edit them without hunting for the edit link, and watch plays and wins. The same account syncs My Puzzle Texts across devices and manages your short links.
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Hurdle is Wordle scored like Mastermind. You pick a secret five-letter word. Players guess real five-letter words, and instead of colored tiles each guess comes back with two numbers: how many letters are correct and in the correct place, and how many more letters are in the word but somewhere else. Solving it reveals your final coordinates or keyword. The word and the final answer stay on the server, so nothing is hidden in the page for a player to peek at.
Save this link now. Without the key you cannot edit or delete this puzzle (only the site admin can reset it).
Your puzzle
Shown to players as a link to your cache page.
Only the site admin can see this, in case they need to reach you about your cache. Never shown to players.
Exactly five letters, and it must be a real word players can type. Players never see it.
Two counts tell a player less than colored tiles do, so this runs higher than Wordle's six. Running out is not the end: players can start over on the same word right away.
On solve, reveal
Shown only after a player lands on your word. Reveal either the final coordinates or a keyword, not both.
Where can I host an image for free?
Paste a direct https:// link to an image. Free image hosts that give a direct link include
ImgBB,
postimages.org, and
Cloudinary.
A geocaching.com image link works too. The link must start with https://.
Keep your cache in play to keep it live. Share the play link so people visit it; unused caches are cleaned up over time.