Nerdle Archive

The archive opens at puzzle #1 on Jul 15, 2026 — the day this site's own daily puzzle began. There are no entries before that date. Those puzzles were never played by anyone, and inventing a history for them would be dishonest.

One puzzle so far. A new entry is added every day at 00:00 UTC.Every equation here is mathematically valid and follows the standard order of operations — the same rules the game itself enforces on your guesses.

The archive is more than a list of past answers — it is the cheapest pattern-recognition training available, because every entry shows you both the equation and its structure.

Each card carries a structure line such as AB+CD=EF or A−BC/D=E, where each letter stands for one digit. Reading down the column of structures is the fastest way to see how much of Nerdle is shape rather than arithmetic: once you recognise that a puzzle is a double-digit addition, the space of possible answers collapses dramatically before you have spent a single guess.

Look for the forms that repeat. A division that resolves cleanly, two-digit numbers that sum into the forties, an operator forced into one position by the length of the equation — these are the patterns that turn a six-guess struggle into a three-guess solve. Working backwards through solved puzzles builds that recognition faster than playing forwards does, because you already know the answer and can concentrate on the shape.

If a past equation still looks opaque, reconstruct it: work out which operation had to come first under the order of operations, and ask what the result's factors allowed. That is the same reasoning the game rewards every day.

Every equation in this archive is mathematically valid, uses only the four basic operations, and follows PEMDAS — which makes the list usable in a classroom as-is. There is no leading zero, no decimal, and no negative intermediate to explain away.

The structure lines make it straightforward to pick a set that matches what you are teaching: gather the entries whose structure mentions division if that is this week's topic, or the double-digit additions if you are drilling mental arithmetic.Teacher resources covers using these in a lesson in more detail.