It's Wordle but you try to take as many guesses as possible.
Play it here. Click the ❓ button inside the game to learn by example.
dawdlin is built on the excellent hello wordl clone of Wordle.
dawdlin uses the same word lists as hello wordl, although the daily target words are different.
Target words are generated from a manual curation of the top 25,000 or so entries of Peter Norvig's English word frequency list, to get rid of obscure words, plurals, conjugated verbs, inappropriate language, and British spellings (sorry). If you get dealt a strange target word, please open an issue on this here GitHub repository.
The dictionary for checking guesses is based on the Official Tournament and Club Word List used in North American Scrabble tournaments.