14 Best Wordle Games You Should Play
Wordle became an instant classic almost immediately upon launch, but its simplicity also creates a new problem: what to play if you’ve already guessed the word of the day? Luckily, the years since Wordle’s introduction have blessed us with dozens of other guessing games that have borrowed one or more of Wordle’s features—the five-letter solutions, or the yellow and green squares, or sometimes just the concept of guessing and getting hints to narrow down the puzzle. possibilities. Here are 14 of the best.
Wafer
Let’s start the list with a cute and friendly game. Waffle places six different five-letter words on a grid, and you solve it by simply moving the squares. Completing the task in a given number of permutations is difficult, but you will never be too puzzled – all the necessary letters are right in front of you.
Flag
I couldn’t decide whether to give the geographic location list to Flagle , which uses country flags, or Worldle , which gives you country outlines. I choose Flag because there are two ways to win: in addition to narrowing down a country’s location, you can also reveal country flag tiles.
Let
This is probably the last friendly and simple game you’ll see on this list, so enjoy it while it lasts. Hurdle gives you five Wordle-style puzzles every day. You need to solve each one to get the next one, and then the fifth puzzle is pre-populated with the four previous solutions as guesses, leaving you with only two chances to win the final round.
Absurd
The Absurd gets its name because its premise is completely absurd—and boy, does it come true. The secret word you guess changes to avoid your guesswork . The only hint of sportsmanship is that it will follow previous clues – so if it tells you that a word contains the letter R as the first letter, the solution will have the letter R, but everything else can be changed. Success in this game means backing the algorithm into a corner until it has only one option left; only then will he admit that you have won.
Hurdle
Heardle is a modern version of Name That Tune! , a game show in which contestants had to identify a song based on the first few notes. The songs on Heardle come from popular Spotify streams, so it’s also a good litmus test for your pop culture relevance.
Argument
In Squabble we have the first competitive Wordle. (We’ll meet the other one in a minute.) If you think you’re good at guessing words, now you have the opportunity to prove it against friends or strangers in real time. A wrong guess subtracts health from your little meter; guessing correctly tops it up. The game continues, using multiple words if necessary, until all but one player has been eliminated.
Mordle
If you like Squabble, try the multiplayer game Mordle . The games can accommodate up to 100 players, but the gameplay is simpler because you don’t have to monitor their game boards or fight them directly. Just try to solve the puzzle yourself, as quickly as possible, and see how many people came up with the correct solution before or after you.
Quordle and other multiwords
When Dordle (double Wardle) first appeared on the scene, it seemed like a nightmare; you have to solve two words with the same guesses?! But with practice it is not at all difficult. And from that moment on, the situation worsened. In my opinion, Quordle is the best place; four is the ideal number of puzzles to solve in one go. But Octordle is funny too, as are Sedecordle and Duotrigordle. The verbosity seems daunting at first, but with so many grids, almost any guess will give you a useful clue.
Antislovo
Antiwordle is perhaps the most hellish of all the games on this list, and that’s saying something. The rules are the same as regular Wordle played on Hard mode (where you have to re-use correct letter guesses). But the whole idea is that you are trying not to guess the word. Once you get it right, you lose.
Semantia
Word games are, for the most part, games for those who can write. If you can recognize the letter patterns that are commonly found, you have an advantage. So if you’ve ever wondered why word games don’t ask you to guess the approximate meaning of a word, Semantle is for you. It’s hard to even begin to narrow it down, but once you do, just aim for words with similar meanings to arrive at the answer.
WordAll
Every time you get green and yellow squares in response to a guess, the game is actually defining and redefining the set of words that the solution should contain. (All words that have an E in second position and an E in second position. T in them, say, somewhere other than third.) WordAll gives you a half-played game, pauses it, and asks you to name all the words in it bullet. This is a fun brain exercise that will probably make you a more strategic Wordle player.
Artle
We’ll go without words in this art game that shows you pieces of work created by the same artist. It’s called Artle and it’ll probably teach you something you didn’t know about your favorite artists and help you discover new ones.
Squardle
If you think Waffle is cute, then Squardle is her evil twin. This is another crossword style game, but this time you will have to enter all your guesses. This doesn’t sound so bad until you start trying to make sense of the clues. Each square contains color-coded information about how the letter you guessed fits into the words of the puzzle. As with Microsoft’s Clippy, what should be a useful experience quickly becomes confusing and frustrating. To win this game you need to use these clues without letting too many of them distract you.
Edit
One word at a time? Six words at a time? Redactle scoffs at all of this. He gives you an entire Wikipedia article with most of the words blacked out, in the style of censored government documents. Your task is to guess the words; if you guess correctly, these words will appear in the article. To solve the puzzle, you must correctly guess the title of the article, which could be about anything from a historical figure to a mathematical concept.