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A bunch of my friends have a routine of playing a whole host of wordle variants daily. It's been amazing to watch. dordle/quordle/octordle: Play 2, 4, or 8 boa

A bunch of my friends have a routine of playing a whole host of wordle variants daily. It's been amazing to watch. dordle/quordle/octordle: Play 2, 4, or 8 boards at once. I find quordle to be the sweet spot. xordle: Just one board but two secret words. A more puzzley feel. I made this one. squardle: Sort of a crossword of wordles doing 6 at a time. Your feedback has some spatial meaning rather than all the puzzles and hints being done in parallel. semantle: Guess the word based on similarity of meanings rather than spelling. worldle: Guess the country/territory by its shape. chessle: Chess opening moves. ordsnille: Swedish wordle. I don't know Swedish but I do this one, using 5 letter words I find on the page then guessing plausible words. I'm slowly building up a valid word list by playing. So I think even if the NYT acquisition is distasteful to you, maybe Wordle still is an example of nice things we can have.

School-Cotton 5y ago
Try tradle! The scoring function is the same as worldle, but the initial clue is a treemap chart of the country’s exports.
haraball 5y ago
Thanks for this list! A favourite of mine is heardle (https://www.heardle.app/ https://www.heardle.app/): Guess the song based on the first seconds.
vcoelho 5y ago
gremi.ooo: guess grêmio foot-ball porto alegrense's player of the day
madcaptenor 5y ago
A few others: sedecordle (https://www.sedecordle.com/ https://www.sedecordle.com/) - 16 at once. I think I'd like this if I could open it on a big screen and see all the words side by side, but as it is there's too much scrolling. I agree that quordle's the sweet spot. squareword (https://squareword.org/ https://squareword.org/) - form a five-by-five word square nerdle (https://nerdlegame.com/ https://nerdlegame.com/) - a numerical equation instead of words
oliwary 5y ago
I think it is so cool how the popularity of Wordle has opened the door to so many games that expand on the concept. It is like it created a shared expectation for how games like this can work that has now been adapted and expanded by so many different creators. I don't think any of the variants would be as popular without the original being as culturally prevalent as it is. If you want to try one more I made squareword (https://squareword.org https://squareword.org) which features a 5x5 grid of letters, featuring five words down and five across. Like a combination of sudoku and Wordle.
- aabbcc1241 5y ago
  This is a hard but fun one :)
- mikepurvis 5y ago
  Absolutely, yeah. Even just Quordle would be pretty incomprehensible to most normal people lacking the baseline expectations set by vanilla Wordle.
- drusepth 5y ago
  One small feedback on squareword: it'd be very nice to do some word pruning a la Wordle to exclude rarer words that the average person is unlikely to know (or have any exposure to), like today's first row, 4th column, and 5th column. IMO brute-forcing words until you get a word you've never even seen before isn't very fun.
zild3d 5y ago
heh I tried xordle and getting 5 green letters on a guess that wasn't actually the word really threw me off
cyral 5y ago
Here is another: https://wafflegame.net/ https://wafflegame.net/
jsendros 5y ago
There are a bunch of lists out there for these variants. I wrote a small one as a weekend project to learn React and AWS. People seem to like it since I've only shared it on my personal FB and it's getting hundreds of hits a day. I'll plug it here since you seem like an "rdle" lover. https://www.rdles.com https://www.rdles.com
- quadrumane 5y ago
  want to add one more? I've been making a clone that isn't different from the base experience but focuses on challenging friends instead of the once a day thing. https://www.yordzzle.com https://www.yordzzle.com
grumpwagon 5y ago
Poeltl (roughly pronounced Pertle, after Jakob Poeltl): NBA basketball player guessing is my current favorite https://poeltl.dunk.town/ https://poeltl.dunk.town/
elefantastisch 5y ago
This is the most thorough list I know of variants: https://rwmpelstilzchen.gitlab.io/wordles/ https://rwmpelstilzchen.gitlab.io/wordles/ No affiliation.
quadrumane 5y ago
https://www.yordzzle.com https://www.yordzzle.com unlimited wordles plus friend challenges

School-Cotton 5y ago

Try tradle! The scoring function is the same as worldle, but the initial clue is a treemap chart of the country’s exports.

haraball 5y ago

Thanks for this list! A favourite of mine is heardle (https://www.heardle.app/ https://www.heardle.app/): Guess the song based on the first seconds.

vcoelho 5y ago

gremi.ooo: guess grêmio foot-ball porto alegrense's player of the day

madcaptenor 5y ago

A few others: sedecordle (https://www.sedecordle.com/ https://www.sedecordle.com/) - 16 at once. I think I'd like this if I could open it on a big screen and see all the words side by side, but as it is there's too much scrolling. I agree that quordle's the sweet spot. squareword (https://squareword.org/ https://squareword.org/) - form a five-by-five word square nerdle (https://nerdlegame.com/ https://nerdlegame.com/) - a numerical equation instead of words

oliwary 5y ago

I think it is so cool how the popularity of Wordle has opened the door to so many games that expand on the concept. It is like it created a shared expectation for how games like this can work that has now been adapted and expanded by so many different creators. I don't think any of the variants would be as popular without the original being as culturally prevalent as it is. If you want to try one more I made squareword (https://squareword.org https://squareword.org) which features a 5x5 grid of letters, featuring five words down and five across. Like a combination of sudoku and Wordle.

aabbcc1241 5y ago
This is a hard but fun one :)
mikepurvis 5y ago
Absolutely, yeah. Even just Quordle would be pretty incomprehensible to most normal people lacking the baseline expectations set by vanilla Wordle.
drusepth 5y ago
One small feedback on squareword: it'd be very nice to do some word pruning a la Wordle to exclude rarer words that the average person is unlikely to know (or have any exposure to), like today's first row, 4th column, and 5th column. IMO brute-forcing words until you get a word you've never even seen before isn't very fun.

zild3d 5y ago

heh I tried xordle and getting 5 green letters on a guess that wasn't actually the word really threw me off

cyral 5y ago

Here is another: https://wafflegame.net/ https://wafflegame.net/

jsendros 5y ago

There are a bunch of lists out there for these variants. I wrote a small one as a weekend project to learn React and AWS. People seem to like it since I've only shared it on my personal FB and it's getting hundreds of hits a day. I'll plug it here since you seem like an "rdle" lover. https://www.rdles.com https://www.rdles.com

quadrumane 5y ago
want to add one more? I've been making a clone that isn't different from the base experience but focuses on challenging friends instead of the once a day thing. https://www.yordzzle.com https://www.yordzzle.com

grumpwagon 5y ago

Poeltl (roughly pronounced Pertle, after Jakob Poeltl): NBA basketball player guessing is my current favorite https://poeltl.dunk.town/ https://poeltl.dunk.town/

elefantastisch 5y ago

This is the most thorough list I know of variants: https://rwmpelstilzchen.gitlab.io/wordles/ https://rwmpelstilzchen.gitlab.io/wordles/ No affiliation.

quadrumane 5y ago

https://www.yordzzle.com https://www.yordzzle.com unlimited wordles plus friend challenges