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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 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.

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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) which features a 5x5 grid of letters, featuring five words down and five across. Like a combination of sudoku and Wordle.

This is a hard but fun one :)

Absolutely, yeah. Even just Quordle would be pretty incomprehensible to most normal people lacking the baseline expectations set by vanilla Wordle.

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.

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

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

A few others:

sedecordle (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/) - form a five-by-five word square

nerdle (https://nerdlegame.com/) - a numerical equation instead of words

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

This is the most thorough list I know of variants: https://rwmpelstilzchen.gitlab.io/wordles/

No affiliation.

Thanks for this list!

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

https://www.yordzzle.com

unlimited wordles plus friend challenges

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

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

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

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

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