Looking for the next Wordle in online puzzle challenges?
It’s now six months since Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle went public with his five-letter word-guessing game and it spread like wildfire across the internet.
But now there’s a sense of apathy creeping in among some former Wordle-aholics.
The good news is, thanks to the stratospheric rise of Wordle, a ton of other guessing games have cropped up in the meantime.
According to Dr Douglas Scharre, a neurologist and director of the Center for Cognitive and Memory Disorders at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, solving a daily crossword puzzle or playing a word game like Wordle is also great for brain health as they can “stimulate and challenge key parts of the brain, including reasoning, language, logic, visual perception, attention, and flexibility”.
Here are seven Wordle alternatives...
1. DORDLE
Similar to Wordle but twice as hard, with Dordle (zaratustra.itch. io/dordle) you have to guess two five-letter words at once.
2. QUORDLE
Is doubling up still too easy? Quordle (quordle.com) challenges you to guess FOUR five-letter words at once, but you’re given
nine attempts instead of six.
3. HELLO WORDL
Another twist on the original, Hello Wordl (hellowordl.net) lets you choose how many letters are in the word you’re guessing, from four to 11.
4. WORLDLE
Put your geography knowledge to the test with Worldle, which asks you to name a country or territory from only its outline. You get six guesses and you can search from a list, so you don’t need to know how to correctly spell the likes of Vanuatu or Kyrgyzstan.
5. HEARDLE Instead of guessing a word, with Heardle (heardle.app) you have to identify a song from the intro. You get up to six snippets of music.
6. LEWDLE
Potty-mouthed puzzlers will get a kick out of Lewdle (lewdlegame. com). Tame format as Wordle, but the answers are always rude words.
7. ABSURDLE
Described as the adversarial variant of Wordle, Absurdle (qntm. org/absurdle) does not want you to find the answer. In fact, it hasn’t even decided on the final five-letter word until you start playing. You get unlimited guesses, so the challenge is to find the hidden word in as few
attempts as possible.