Here are all the best alternative games to Wordle, from Quordle to Crosswordle
Each solution consists of eight “letters,” which range from numbers one through 10 and can include the plus, minus, divide, or multiply symbols. All guesses have to include an equal sign at the end, in order to show what the full solution is.
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Some Wordle fans have deepened their love of the game by experimenting with strategy, analyzing past grids, and generally going all in on all things Wordle. Others have begun to look elsewhere for more of the same rush of satisfaction you get when you solve the daily game.
By this point, there are enough games like Wordle out there to satisfy just about anyone—even those looking for gift ideas for puzzlers. Scroll on for 36 of the most entertaining and creative Wordle alternatives on the internet.
1. WordPlay
WordPlay is just like Wordle—six guesses for a five-letter word—but you can play as many times as you want.
2., 3., 4., and 5. Dordle, Quordle, Octordle, and Sedecordle
Dordle is also similar to Wordle, but you get seven tries to guess two five-letter words. Each guess appears in both boxes—so getting closer to solving one word often means entering letters that you know won’t help you solve the other.
Quordle, Octordle, and Sedecordle work the same way, but you’re trying to guess four, eight, and 16 words, respectively.
6. and 7. Hello Wordl and Speedle
If you’re tired of guessing five-letter words, check out Hello Wordl. You get to choose the number of letters in the word, from four all the way up to 11. (But you still only ever have six tries to guess it correctly.)
Speedle is pretty much the same game, but the goal is to land on the answer as fast as possible. In addition to the timer, there’s a number of other settings you can alter to make the game easier or harder, depending on your interest level.
8. Hurdle
Wordle tells you exactly which letters are in the right spots and which ones need to be shifted. Hurdle, on the other hand, only tells you how many letters are correctly placed and how many need to move—it’s up to you to figure out which letters it’s referring to. You get eight tries to guess the five-letter word.
9. Crosswordle
Crosswordle is essentially Wordle in reverse. You’re given a grid full of gray, yellow, and green blocks, with only the final word filled in. Your job is to work your way backwards, filling the whole grid with wrong responses as you go.
10. Adverswordle
Adverswordle is another kind of Wordle in reverse: You think of a five-letter word, and a bot tries to guess it. You’re responsible for revealing how many letters are green, yellow, and gray for each guess.
11. Waffle
Waffle gives you a waffle-shaped grid of crisscrossing letters highlighted in green, yellow, or gray. In 15 moves or less, you have to swap the letters around so they form three horizontal words and three vertical words.
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12. Absurdle
Like Wordle, Absurdle involves guessing a five-letter word. But unlike Wordle, that word changes as you go. Say you start with dream. The AI comes up with all the solutions possible that don’t contain any of those letters—which are many—and grays out the whole word. So you guess shunt. If there are still possible solutions that don’t contain any letters from dream or shunt, your second guess will be all gray, too. As the letters dwindle, the AI will eventually only be able to come up with solutions that do contain some of your guessed letters, and it will have to give you some green and yellow blocks. That continues until you’ve guessed the only word that remains. Basically, if there’s more than one possible solution, the AI will force you to keep guessing until that’s no longer the case. (Thankfully, you get unlimited guesses.)
13. Spelling Bee
Spelling Bee, hosted by The New York Times, gives you a collection of six gray letters and one yellow one. You have to come up with as many four-letter (or longer) words as you can using those letters—all of which must include the yellow letter. In every game, there’s at least one word that contains all seven letters.
14. Heardle
Guess the song based on the very beginning of it. With every wrong guess, Heardle will play you a little more of the intro.
15. Artle
Artle, created by the National Gallery of Art, shows you an artwork from the gallery’s collections and asks you to guess the artist. For every wrong answer, you’ll be shown another work by that same artist.
16. Framed
Framed asks you to guess the film based on a single frame. With each wrong guess (you get six), you’re shown another frame.
17. Box Office Game
Box Office Game is another fun puzzle for movie buffs. You’re shown the box office earnings (and a couple other stats) for the top five movies in theaters during a specified weekend. You have 1000 total points to spend on clues—genre, actors, etc.—that will help you guess what they are.
18. Cloudle
Meteorology enthusiasts will love Cloudle, which names a city and asks you to guess its upcoming five-day forecast in six tries. Your options are similar to the icons you’d see in an actual forecast: sunny, cloudy, partly cloudy, etc.
19. and 20. Worldle and Globle
Worldle shows you the outline of a country and gives you six tries to guess it. With each wrong guess, you’ll find out the distance between your country and the correct one (plus which direction you’d have to travel to get there).
Globle also makes you guess a country, which it then reveals on an interactive globe in a color that corresponds to how close it is to the correct country. Colors range from light orange to dark red; the closer you are, the redder the country will be.
21. and 22. Nerdle and Numberle
With Nerdle, you have six tries to guess a basic equation, which can include addition, subtraction, multiplication, and/or division. None of the eight blocks is filled in at the outset, so you’re trying to figure out the numbers and the symbols.
Numberle is the same basic premise, but while Nerdle lets you use the commutative property—e.g. (2 + 4 = 6) is the same as (4 + 2 = 6)—Numberle requires your response to be in a certain order.
23. Chessle
Chessle shows you a chessboard and gives you six tries to guess the opening moves for both players. Green means you got it right; yellow means the move is correct, but the location or the player wasn’t.
24. Lordle of the Rings
Lordle of the Rings is just like Wordle in that you’re trying to guess one five-letter word in six tries. Unlike Wordle, all these words come from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
25. SWordle
With SWordle, Star Wars fans get six tries to guess a five-letter word from the Star Wars universe.
26. Taylordle
Calling all Swifties: Taylordle gives you six tries to guess a four- to eight-letter word that’s somehow related to Taylor Swift’s discography or career.
27. BTS Wordle
BTS fans have a Wordle of their own, too: You have six tries to guess a five-letter word related to the K-pop band.
28. Squirdle
With Squirdle, you have eight tries to guess the Pokémon. Every time you guess incorrectly, you’ll find out what the correct creature has in common with yours—things like type, size, and generation.
29. Who Are Ya?
Who Are Ya? is a lot like Squirdle, but for soccer fans. Guess a soccer player from one of the big five European leagues (England’s Premier League, Spain’s La Liga, Germany’s Bundesliga, Italy’s Serie A, and France’s Ligue 1), and you’ll find out what that player has in common with the right answer—team, position, nationality, etc.
30. Jewdle
Jewdle was created by Shalom, an organization dedicated to “fostering Jewish life and learning in an inclusive way” among Sydney, Australia’s Jewish community. You have six tries to guess a six-letter word that “can range from English to Hebrew to Yiddish to Aramaic and everything in between,” the website explains. “Try names of texts, holidays, slang, prayers, anything you can think of. Any Jew-ish word is fair game in Jewdle!”
31. Queerdle
Queerdle players have six tries to guess a four- to eight- letter word related to the LGBTQIA+ community. “Occasionally two words may be put together if I feel like it,” creator Jordan Bouvier says on the website, where you can also find a form to suggest words to add to the list of acceptable guesses.
32. and 33. Sweardle and Lewdle
Sweardle is specifically for four-letter swear words, which you have to guess in just four tries. Lewdle is a bit broader, allowing slightly longer words and encompassing all dirty words imaginable.
34. Passwordle
With Passwordle, you have six tries to guess one of the most common five-character passwords comprising letters, numbers, or both. It’s not quite as hard as it sounds: If you guess a combination that isn’t in the game’s database, it won’t accept it (allowing you to choose something different without wasting a guess).
35. Redactle
Redactle gives you a redacted Wikipedia page, which you gradually reveal by guessing words that are in it. Enter battle, for example, and every instance of the word battle will get un-redacted. You win once you guess the title of the page.
36. Moviedle
Moviedle shows you an entire movie compressed into a single second and makes you guess what it is. You have six attempts to get it right, and the movie is slowed down slightly with each wrong response.
A version of this story ran in 2022; it has been updated for 2023.
Here are all the best alternative games to Wordle, from Quordle to Crosswordle
Although Wordle has remained quite popular the last few months, players can only participate in this board game once a day, resulting in the rise of new Wordle alternative games.
The word game was first launched in October 2021, before becoming an overnight sensation in January of this year. One month later, The New York Times announced it would be purchasing the puzzle game, in order to reflect “the company’s quest to grow digital subscriptions to 10 million by 2025”.
The aim of the game is to guess a random five-letter word in six tries. Every time you enter a letter, the colour of the tiles change to reflect how close your guess is to the right word.
However, new puzzles are only released once a day. As a result, there has been a rise in popularity of different yet similar games, with options ranging from number versions of the puzzle game to a Wordle-type game for countries.
From Quordle to Crosswordle, here are some of the most entertaining games to play as alternatives to Wordle.
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Quordle
Although this game is a spin-off of, and has the same goal, as Wordle, Quordle is actually quite different, and slightly harder. In order to win Quordle, players have to guess four five-letter words at the same time. Players have nine tries to solve all four words.
Crosswordle
In this game, players have to guess two words, which cross each other, in as few tries as possible. The layout, similar to that of a crossword puzzle, includes boxes that change colours to show how close your guess is to the right answer.
For example, green indicates that the letter is in the correct location, while yellow indicates that players have guessed the right letter, but it’s in the wrong location.
Octordle
Octordle is another game with the same goal and format as Wordle, but includes a bit more of a challenge. Players have to guess a total of eight words, all of which are five letters, in 13 tries.
Just like Wordle, the change of colour in the tiles will reflect how close you are to guessing the correct letter.
Nerdle
Unlike Wordle, Nerdle consists of using different numbers to solve a problem, with players given six tries to guess the solution.
Each solution consists of eight “letters,” which range from numbers one through 10 and can include the plus, minus, divide, or multiply symbols. All guesses have to include an equal sign at the end, in order to show what the full solution is.
WordGuessr
In this game, the same rules of Wordle still apply, however, players can make some adjustments to the puzzle. More specifically, they can decide how long they want the word that they’re guessing to be, ranging from three to seven letters. They can also opt to pick a random letter count for the word.
Primel
Primel is another numbers game, where players have six tries to guess what the five-digit prime number is. In order for their guesses to be valid, players must enter a prime number at each attempt.
Absurdle
This puzzle game is notably the opposite of Wordle, as it gives players unlimited attempts to guess the five-letter word. However, according to the game’s site, “Absurdle is actively trying to avoid giving you the answer”.
After each guess, the game changes the target word, in an attempt to defeat the player. The set up of the game is still similar to Wordle, with the colour of tiles changing to give players hints about what the right word is.
Worldle
Instead of showing a word puzzle, Worldle shows players a black shape, representing a certain country in the world. Players have six attempts to guess what that country is.
They receive hints along the way by, choosing from the list of countries. The game gives you a per centage to show how close you are to the right answer.
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