Dartwords Hints and Answer for August 28, 2026
Progressive Dartwords clues for August 28, 2026, so you can nudge yourself toward the secret word without spoiling it. Start with the word's length, reveal more as you need them, then uncover the answer only when you choose. Play Dartwords →
August 28, 2026 · Dartwords
Hints for August 28, 2026
Want a nudge without spoilers? Reveal a hint or two. Darty gives no opening clue, so even the first card is a head start.
How the Dartwords Hint Page Works
The page is built around one idea: you decide how much help you get. Nothing above the reveal shows the answer, so you can open it safely even if you have not played yet.
Work down the hint stack one card at a time. The first two are deliberately gentle: how many letters the secret word has and how many vowels, which already tells you what kind of word to be throwing at Darty. The middle cards shift to meaning: a broad category, the part of speech, then a short definition written to avoid the word itself. The first and last letters sit at the end, for when a nudge is no longer enough. Most players solve it after two or three.
When you want the answer, the tiles let you reveal it letter by letter, or tap Show answer to see the whole word at once. Everything updates automatically each morning, and the date picker opens any past day in the archive.
How to Read the Hints Without Spoiling It
The hints are ordered so the gentlest come first, and taking them in order is the difference between a nudge and a spoiler. Length and vowels narrow the field without giving much away, and they pair well with Darty's own clues about size, category or where a thing is found. The category and definition cards are usually enough to crack it once you have a guess or two on the board. The first and last letters are the most concrete help on the page, so treat them as a final lifeline rather than a starting point.
Dartwords Strategy: Fewer Guesses
Dartwords has no opening clue, so your first guess is pure reconnaissance. Pick a common, concrete noun (an animal, a food, a household object) and read Darty's reply carefully: "bigger", "man-made" or "not something you'd eat" each rule out whole categories at once. Spend the early guesses mapping the territory with broad, everyday words, then use the dart on the board as a compass. When it lands near the bullseye, stop jumping categories and guess close relatives of your last word instead.
If you enjoy this style of progressive hint, our Wordle hint page works the same way for the NYT's daily puzzle.
What Is Dartwords?
Dartwords is a free browser word game from The Game Band, the studio behind Blaseball. Instead of colouring letters, it gives you a tiny animated dart named Darty who responds to each guess with a conversational clue about how your word relates to the secret one, while a dart lands on a board to show how close you are. There is one word a day, ten guesses, and the whole thing plays in a couple of minutes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Dartwords is a free daily word game from The Game Band, the studio behind Blaseball. Darty, a small animated dart, is thinking of a secret word. You get ten guesses and no opening clue; after each guess Darty tells you how your word relates to the answer and throws a dart that lands closer to the bullseye the nearer you are.
Unlike Wordle, Dartwords does not score letters. Its clues are about meaning: guess an animal and Darty might say the answer is bigger, man-made, or something you would find indoors. The dart on the board shows how close you are overall. The game is about narrowing categories, not spelling.
Open the hint stack at the top of this page and reveal the cards one at a time, gentlest first. The answer is hidden separately behind the reveal tiles, so reading the hints never shows you the word. Stop whenever you have enough to solve it yourself.
Today's answer is on this page, hidden behind the reveal tiles so it does not spoil you by accident. Tap a tile to reveal one letter, or tap Show answer to see the whole word. It updates automatically every day.
Dartwords gives everyone a new secret word each day based on their own local date. This page is anchored to US Eastern time, so if you play very early in the morning or from a very different time zone you may briefly see the previous word. Use the date picker to jump to a specific day.
Yes. Use the date picker above the hints to open any day in our archive. Each archived page has the same hint stack and answer reveal as today's.
Yes. Every morning we look up the day's word, derive the letter-based hints directly from it, and generate the category, part of speech and definition hints automatically, checking that none of them contains the answer. If a generated hint fails that check it is left out rather than shown.
No. Dartwords is made by The Game Band and played at dartwords.com. This is an independent hints page and is not affiliated with them.