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| A modern Wordle made from various sizes of coloured Wordle tiles |
Here's a list of Wordle games. Back in the old days a Wordle was a word cloud with the size of the word indicating its prominence (how often it appeared) in a piece of text. Not any more...
NEWER: Worldles - all known Wordles so far. 177 entries ordered by 70 different languages and a table for variant English-language Wordles with varied gameplay. Does make my list below seem a bit pathetic haha https://rwmpelstilzchen.gitlab.io/wordles/
NEW: Word Race - play a Wordle with a stranger https://metzger.media/games/word-race/
A. Wordle type games
1. Wordle
https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
The original, one a day. Play it on a browser on your desktop or on your phone (here's how to add it to your phone's homescreen).
2a. Wordle Archive
https://metzger.media/games/wordle-archive/?levels=select
Play previous Wordle games online
2b. Word Race
https://metzger.media/games/word-race/
Compete with a stranger against the clock to uncover the same word
2c. Six letter Wordle
https://metzger.media/games/wordle-archive/?random=play&letters=6
3. Word Master
https://octokatherine.github.io/word-master/
As many Wordles as you like a day. If you click on the settings cogwheel on the left (I didn't even spot it as using a laptop not phone) you can change the difficulty level.
4. Sweardle
https://www.sweardle.com/
Not surprisingly, this game features four letter words. And all of them are sweary
5. Primal
https://github.andrewt.net/primal/
A number version - each 5 digit guess must be a prime number. Hate it ;)
6. Absurdle
https://qntm.org/files/wordle/index.html
You can have as many guesses as you like. The computer is trying to stall you and might change the word until the dwindling letter combinations available force a particular word to emerge (info).
7. Qiktionary
https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/qiktionary-the-4-letter-game/id972072632
App for iPad, guess the four letter word.
8. HelloWordl
https://hellowordl.net/
As many goes as you like and as many letters as you like (up to 11). Good name. You can also get a link to share to an individual puzzle to challenge a friend.
9. Lewdle
https://www.lewdlegame.com/
Rude words only.
10. Queerdle
https://queerdle.com/
"Words vary in length between
4 and 8 characters and do not contain spaces or punctuation.
Occasionally two words may be put together if I feel like it.
Queerness cannot be contained! Letters can be repeated."
11. Wordle Unlimited
https://www.wordleunlimited.com/
12. Ordle
https://evancharlton.github.io/ordle/
Norwegian-language version. Choose between Bokmål and Nynorsk language variants. (See also B3 for other languages)
13. Brdl
https://brdl.alex.gd/
"Bird codes and banding codes are four-letter nicknames for birds" - if you know these then this is the game for you. More explanation here https://birdcodes.alex.gd/
B. Round-up articles about Wordle and variants
B1. The 7 Best Wordle Alternatives to Get Your Puzzle Fix
https://www.makeuseof.com/best-wordle-alternatives/
This post introduced me to a few others I'd not encountered including Letterle (guess the single letter!) and Byrdle (5 letter words that are choral themed).
B2. Wordle Alternatives
https://stackdiary.com/wordle-alternatives/
References several above and others I'd not heard of including Evil Wordle (possibly quite similar to Absurdle) and Worle (guessing UK town names).
B3. Play Wordle in Other Languages
https://blog.duolingo.com/wordle-in-other-languages/
At time of writing it's French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish and German.
B4. Worldles - all known Wordles so far. 177 entries ordered by 70 different languages and a table for variant English-language Wordles with varied gameplay. https://rwmpelstilzchen.gitlab.io/wordles/
C. Other free online games
C1. Sudoku
https://sudoku.com/
Plenty of other free online versions of this game, and phone apps too.
C2. Solitaire
https://www.google.com
Just type Solitaire into Google's search engine and a mini player will appear (possibly not if you have ad blocker switched on though, so you may need to disable that).
C3. Google's games compendium
Type in dreidel to spin the dreidel, Pac Man to play..., tic tac toe, snake, spin a fidget spinner etc. Click the down arrow below the game to open up more options, including a big list of animal sounds.