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Wordle Alternatives - A Comprehensive List (276 and counting)

Wordle has taken social media by storm, complete with quite a large backlash against people posting a daily message with their latest attempt to solve a puzzle.

That last bit amuses me; it's not like Twitter is famed for deep and meaningful, high quality posts, so to complain about Wordle tweets is a bit like volunteering to sit in a bath of baked beans and complaining the food isn't Michelin star quality. It's a perfectly valid complaint, but a bathtub full of beans isn't where you go for high quality.

Anyway, as with all successes, a smorgasbord of alternatives and clones has appeared in the last few months. I should know, I made three of them. And some of them are genuinely brilliant. The idea of a combative Wordle still tickles me, and I love Absurdle as a result. They all have their charms.

But where a lot of of a thing exist, a list is needed, and I couldn't find one that reached double-digits. So here's my effort at compiling all of the Wordle alternatives into one list.

If you can get through all of these every day, you may be missing your true calling as a crossword designer.

Categories

Twist On The Theme

  • Raganam - A daily anagram Wordle-like game, written by me. Best thing on the list, you'll love it, A+++ would play again (warning, review may contain unconscious bias).
  • Absurdle - Amazing, the puzzle is actively working against you while you try to solve it.
  • Obscurdle - Wordle but the rules change each game.
  • Evil Wordle - The puzzle works against you.
  • Heardle - The "letters" are phonemes.
  • Favle - Wordle in the browser favicon.
  • Crosswordle - Reverse-fill a Wordle grid to match the end result.
  • Murdle - Spooky hangman mashup
  • Wrdl - Wordle without vowels.
  • Five Lives - Try not to guess the word within six rounds.
  • Pfeffel - Like Wordle but it always lies to you.
  • Randle - Wordle without all the pesky guessing letters.

Wordles, Sir, thousands of them

  • Dordle - Two wordles at the same time.
  • Quordle - Four wordles at the same time.
  • Polydle - 1-2315 wordles at the same time.
  • Squareword - Wordle in two dimensions at the same time.
  • Seven Wordles - Guess seven words with points against the clock, with penalties for wrong answers.

Wordle in Reverse

  • Eldrow - Wordle in reverse; the computer tries to guess your word.
  • DeWordle - Sort of backwards Wordle, where you guess coloured squares and you get words back.
  • Solvele - Wordle in reverse; the computer tries to guess your word.

Multiplayer

Maths Theme

  • Wotzal - Maths puzzles and mental arithmetic
  • Nerdle - 8 positions in which you need to fill numbers and operators to make a valid equation.
  • Ooodle - 4 positions in which you need to fill numbers to match the result.
  • Times Table Sequences Game - This one's been a favourite with the kids, a times table sequence finding game.
  • Hurdle - 5 positions in which you need to fill numbers to match the result.
  • Numberle - Guess the number.
  • Primal - Command-line game, guess the prime number.
  • Primel - Guess the prime number.
  • Numble - 7 positions in which you need to fill numbers and operators to make a valid equation.
  • Mathler - Find the solution that equals X
  • Numble - Maths
  • Bytle - Find the binary number.
  • Hexle - Find the hex number.

Wordle With Different Words

  • A Greener Worldle - Climate change and the environment.
  • Queerdle - LGBTQ+, "the yassification of Wordle" ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ
  • Culturle - Pop culture; the answers are taken from movies, TV, books, music, and so on. (Also mine.)
  • Popdle - Pop culture; the answers are taken from movies, TV, books, music, and so on. (Not mine, might give you rabies ;).)
  • Weirdle - Obscure words.
  • Wourdle - British Wordle. (Another one of mine.)
  • Anidal - Animals.
  • Chortle - The answers is the punchline.
  • bookli - Wordle-style solving of a line from a book.

Niche Wordles

Sweary Theme

Multilingual Wordles

  • Wordle Game - English, Spanish, French, German, Portugese, and Italian ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น
  • Wordle - English, Spanish, Portugese, Italian, Dutch, French, Russian, Turkish, Swedish, Catalan, Basque, and Galician ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท

Wordle In Different Languages

Wordle In Constructed Languages

Wordle In Ancient Languages

Wordle Clones

Joke Wordles

Non-Word Wordles

Wordle Tools and Helpers

  • Wordle Quarantine - Follow this on Twitter and post your results as a tweet @ this account so that only your friends who also follow the account have to suffer your daily Wordle tweets.
  • Scoredle - Guess analyser for Wordle.
  • Wordle Time Machine - Past puzzles for Wordle.
  • Wordle Archive - Past puzzles for Wordle.
  • Wordle Archive - Past puzzles for Wordle.
  • Wordle Solver - Enter the letters you know and the ones you've eliminated, it will suggest answers.
  • Wordle First Guess Evaluator - Find out how your favourite first word guess compares to other options.
  • BRAGINATOR - A tool to allow you to generate social media shares of Wordle solves without solving Wordles.
  • Wordle Shares - Aggregator for Wordle solutions tweets.
  • Wordle Answers - Tool to help share your Wordle guesses.
  • Emojle - Tool to work out the answer based only on guess patterns (green, yellow and grey squares).

Anything Else?

Other Lists of Wordle Alternatives

If your favourite Wordle alternative is missing, please let me know.

31 January 2022   |   games, wordle

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