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Comprehensive list of Wordle variants

Original

  • Wordle - Guess a five-letter word in six guesses. Each guess must be real words.

Clones

Multiplayer

Multiple Wordle Grids

  • Dordle - Wordle on two different grids at once.
  • Tridle - Wordle on three different grids at once.
  • Quordle - Wordle on four different grids at once.
  • Octordle - Wordle on eight different grids at once.
  • Sedecordle - Wordle on sixteen different grids at once.
  • Kilordle - Wordle on 1000 different grids at once.
  • Polydle - Choose how many Wordle grids to solve at once (maximum 2315).
  • Thirtle - Solve thirty consecutive Wordle grids as quickly as possible.
  • Crosswordle - Wordle on two intersecting words.

Word Variants

  • Squardle - Wordle in two dimensions across a 5x5 grid with six different words.
  • Absurdle, Evil Wordle - Wordle rules, but the answer is adversarial. Infinite guesses.
  • QWRTL - Wordle without the letter E.
  • Waffle - Squaredle grid (5x5 grid with six words) with shuffled letters and 15 swaps to find the correct grid.
  • Reversle - Given an answer and grid of clues, find a sequence of words that matches the clues as quickly as possible.
  • Survivle - Normal Wordle rules but you must use the information you have and the goal is to play as many rounds as possible without finding the answer.
  • Absurvivle - Absurdle but the goal is to survive as long as possible.
  • Scrabwordle - Wordle, but your word must also match a given Scrabble score.
  • xordle - Wordle with two disjoint answers but only one board. Guess both words correctly to win.
  • Fibble - Wordle, but the clue contains one lie in every row.
  • Sixdle - Wordle with six-letter words and answers.
  • Warmle - Wordle, but a yellow clue lets you know if are within 3 letters alphabetically for that position.
  • Wordle Peaks - Wordle, but each position is hinted based on the alphabetical direction of the answer's letter in that position.
  • Symble - Wordle, but hints are given as a random 3 symbols and it is up to the player to determine what the symbols mean. Important to note: symbols clue at the answer letter in that position, not the guessed letter.

Language/Regional Variants

Math Variants

  • Primel - Guess a five-digit prime in six guesses. Each guess must be prime.
  • Mathler - Guess a six-character expression that equals a given number.
  • Nerdle - Guess an eight-character equation.

Answer categories (English words + category are all legal guesses)

  • Taylordle - Answer will be related to Taylor Swift.
  • Byrdle - Answer will be related to choral music.
  • A Greener Wordle - Answer will be related to climate change.
  • Wordle-BTS - Answer will be related to BTS.
  • Moxle - Answer will be a 5-letter Magic: the Gathering card name.
  • Sweardle - Answer will be a four-letter swear word. Guess it in four guesses.
  • Jordle - Answer will be Neopets-related.
  • Queerdle - Answer will be queer related words of various lengths.
  • YGODLE - Answer will be Yu-Gi-Oh! related.

Guessing and answer categories (The set of legal guesses == the set of answers).

  • Oundle - Guesses and answers must be a British place name.
  • Lewdle - Guesses and answers must be in the lewd word dictionary.
  • Paimordle - Guesses and answers must be characters, items, and concepts relating to Genshin Impact.
  • BRDL - Guesses and answers must be a 4-letter bird banding code.

Fandom Variants

  • Enchant Worldle - Magic: the Gathering. Guess a card in 20 tries, recieving hints on card properties.
  • Commander Codex - Magic: the Gathering. Guess a commander and receive hints based on card properties.
  • Squirdle - Pokémon. Guess a Pokémon and receive hints based on Pokémon properties.
  • Lordle of the Rings - Lord of the Rings. Uses only five-letter words (including names) in the main text of Lord of the Rings
  • Swordle - Star Wars. Guess 5-character Star Wars words including numbers and dashes.

Transit/Geography

  • Airportle (Avi Bagla), Airportle (Scott's Cheap Flights) - Guesses and answers must be three-letter airport codes.
  • Subwaydle - Guess a valid NYC subway trip from point A to point B.
  • Worldle - Guess a country by its outline. Hints are distance and direction between the guessed country and the answer country.
  • Globle - Guess a country based on color-coded hints indicating distance.
  • Tradle - Guess a country based on its export profile.
  • Flagdle - Guess a country based on its flag. Hints are a similarity score between your guess's flag and the actual flag.
  • Flagle - Guess a country based a 2x3 grid of a flag that reveals one square with each guess.

Joke Variants

  • Letterle - Guess one letter in 26 guesses.
  • Windle - Wordle built for Windows 3.1.
  • Passwordle - Receive hints based on the difference between SHA-256 hash of your guess and the hash of the answer.

Other Variants

  • Semantle - Guess any word or phrase. Hints are the Word2Vec semantic distance between guess and answer.
  • Scidle - Like wordle, but you create a word or phrase using five consecutive elements from the periodic table.
  • Chessle - Like Wordle, but for Chess openings.
  • Fusekle - Like Wordle, but for Go openings (fuseki).
  • Pictle - Using Wordle rules, use guesses to match a picture inspired by the Wordle puzzle from 7 days ago.
  • Heardle - Guess a song by hearing increasingly long opening snippets. Features design language from Wordle.
  • Squaredle - Boggle-like word finding game. Features design language from Wordle.

Made a Wordle game and not on here? Drop a link in the comments!

@RattatAndyGo
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duotrigordle is missing

@adrik
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adrik commented Mar 5, 2023

Please add Smartle (https://smartle.net) - it's a game with a 5x5 grid where you need to build a valid word in each row to win.

@Othmanali02
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Hangle (https://hangle-geo.com), A daily game of hangman for countries!

@684efs3
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684efs3 commented Apr 21, 2023

Segmentle (https://segmentle.com), a daily math game created by AI.

@pier4r
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pier4r commented Apr 21, 2023

Segmentle (or magic square? Ah no, it is only columns) is nice.

@JaSfields
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Mazele (https://mazele.io/) a daily maze wordle like game, clues are given from row and column totals

@gigig987
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https://historychallenge.club/ you have to guess a famous historical figure every day. You have 5 attempts, 5 clues and you can guess if a letter is in the name to get closer to the solution. Powered by chatgpt.

@perlDreamer
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I have created Frolfle (http://www.frolfle.com) which is a disc golf guessing game using the disc's flight number for hints. Comes with 3 levels of difficulty and 3 different hinting styles.

@ARezaK
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ARezaK commented Jun 11, 2023

https://guessthe.game Guess The game

@flatoy
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flatoy commented Jun 13, 2023

https://lemot.fr <- New French version
https://www.wordle.lol. <- Norwegian version. I noticed the one in the list is broken.

@Meghan2300
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Wordle 2nd Generation, guess the word by context.
https://kveez.com/en/contexto/

@TEStearns1
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@Meghan2300
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Dilemmle - Guess the people’s sentiment about different dilemmas.

@gitayy
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gitayy commented Sep 24, 2023

@ARezaK
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ARezaK commented Sep 26, 2023

Guess The Audio (http://guesstheaudio.com)
Guess The Book (https://guessthebook.app)

@ElitoGame
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MCdle - Guess today's minecraft block, item and mob!

@Meghan2300
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The best Statele of them all Statele

@zakuk
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zakuk commented Jan 9, 2024

https://streakle.net - Create a league and compete with friends to top the leaderboards!

@robobun7
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costcodle.com, guess the price of a Costco item in 6 guesses or less

@torinman
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here is my list so far (some of these are already in there)
https://ducc.pythonanywhere.com/flaggle/

Centordle (100 wordles at once): https://hked.live/centordle/
Sexaginta-quattuordle (64 wordles at once): https://64ordle.au/
Duotrigordle (32 wordles at once): https://duotrigordle.com/
Sedecordle (16 wordles at once): http://sedecordle.com/
Octordle (8 wordles at once): https://octordle.com
Quordle (4 wordles at once): https://www.quordle.com/#/
Dordle (2 wordles at once): https://wordle.onl/dordle
Nordle (n wordles at once): https://www.nordle.us/

Globle (Guess country): https://globle-game.com/
Worldle (Guess the country based on the outline): https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/
Tradle (Guess the country by exports): https://games.oec.world/en/tradle/
Tuble (Guess the London Underground station): https://tuble.co.uk/
Nerdle (Maths equation wordle): https://nerdlegame.com/
Mathler (Maths equation wordle): https://www.mathler.com/
Foodle (Wordle with food-related words): https://food-le.co/
Absurdle (Word changes based on answers): https://qntm.org/files/absurdle/absurdle.html
Adverswordle (Computer guesses your word): https://adverswordle.doteye.online/
Birdle (Wordle with bird-related words): https://quuxplusone.github.io/wordle-clone/birdle/
Heardle (1) (Guess the song): https://www.spotify.com/heardle/
Heardle (2) (Phonetic based wordle): https://heardle.glitch.me/
Crosswordle (1) (Fill in the gaps): https://crosswordle.vercel.app/
Crosswordle (2) (Two intersecting wordles): https://crosswordle.serializer.ca/
Crosswordle (3) (Crossword puzzle of wordles): https://crosswordle.xyz/
Waffle (Grid of wordles): https://wafflegame.net/
Survivle (Try not to get the word): https://lazyguyy.github.io/survivle/
Wordle peaks (Wordle based on position in the alphabet): https://vegeta897.github.io/wordle-peaks/
Redactle (fill in Wikipedia article):
https://www.redactle.com/

and the best flaggle ever: https://ducc.pythonanywhere.com/flaggle/

@torinman
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and some more joke variants:
https://horsle.glitch.me (always horse)
https://leahneukirchen.github.io/luckle/ (you always win first try)

@anilvar
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anilvar commented Feb 24, 2024

Tyzlle (Wordle crosswords): https://tyzlle.com/

@MistorBistor
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Isaacle - The Binding of Issac. Guess a TBoI item and receive hints based its properties.
Literalnie - Polish variant of wordle

@Jacobrosen819
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I Created a version of wordle that keeps going after you get the answer right I would love to get your feedback on it

📷
thewordshift.com/

@TylerJang27
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travle is a great geography one

@dhoulihan
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Worchle is a daily word search Wordle variant

@kellydornhaus
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double-dabble from the makers of fibble and xordle. letters get paired together and you must guess pairs of letters instead of individual letters

@redisnotblu
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@PersonalPythonProgrammer

What about duotrigordle? 32 wordles at the same time

@damianolszewski
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Literówka is polish multiplayer wordle game.

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