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Wordle has found increasing popularity amongst groups of friends as a daily challenge of sorts to participate in. As lots of people might know, the aim is to guess a 5 letter word in 6 tries or less with a valid 5 letter word each time. People dissemnitated the game’s poularity by bragging scores to instagram stories and sharing them with friends.
As lots of people might know, plenty of aptly named clones and alternatives of this formulaic approach to a daily puzzle game have since popped up. Here’s a list of some clones and alternatives and also some similar games for you to try your hand at.
Here’s some Wordle alternatives
Nerdle
Nerdle is essentially everything you love about Wordle, but math instead. Not exactly my cup of tea, however it’s a great brain-teaser for sure, and just as satisfying. You can access daily just like Wordle, and your score is ranked in how quickly you got the answer.
Also, as with Wordle, it’s not just about doing math but using clues. For instance, the = appearing in the 7th slot means the answer is only a single digit, which is a big help narrowing the answer down.
Geo-Guesser
A non-clone game of the Wordle with the same added elements of guessing, common sense, intuition and daily frequency, Geo-guesser is what you would call the Wordle of geography, except maybe you wouldnt, considering there is already a Wordle of geography called Worldle.
For the sake of variation, Geo-guesser is one of my personal favourites and strays quite far from the minimalist design of Wordle by adding in the element of Google Street View in order to examine your surroundings closer before giving an educated guess on where it is. The game then awards you a score of how far way your guess was from the actual street coordinates. Geo-guesser is just as satisfying, and in my opinion, preferable to Worldle, which offers you only the outline of a country.
Heardle
We all know the starting riff of Mr. Brightside by The Killers, or the ‘stomp, stomp, clap’ at the beginning of We Will Rock You by Queen, but here’s your chance to test your auditory reflexes even further with Heardle.
Operating in a similar way to Wordle, Heardle instead gives you a daily song and gives you six guesses to identify it, and your first guess is based on just a one-second sound clip of the intro. There you have it. Guess wrong and you get a few more seconds. It’s immensely satisfying, as you can probably imagine, to snap up a song in one go.
Absurdle
Absurdle is essentially the evil twin brother of Wordle in that where Wordle picks a word and has you attempt to guess it, Absurdle selects a secret word at the beginning, and changes it after each guess. How maniacal indeed. However, Absurdle is a benevolent dictator, so when you guess a letter correctly, Absurdle still picks a new secret word for you next attempt, but it keeps that same letter.
Framed
One single frame from a film. That’s all you’ve got to go off. If you’re wrong, you get another frame, and you have six guesses total. You’ll not be stumped on the exact title as it has a brilliant autocomplete feature so it won’t unfairly leave you out in the cold.
Sporcle
Sporcle is an amazing place to look for almost any quiz you can think of made by professionals and fans alike. Check out anything from flag guessing and logo guessing to quotes and famous lyrics.
Gearoid – Who’s that Pokémon?
No one’s calling this the Pokémon version of Wordle, I’m sure, but guess the Pokémon based on their silhouette given just like in the show! This spans all generations and is sure to be a massive test for fans and a nostalgia trip for others.
Games like Wordle FAQS
Who made Wordle?
Wordle is a web-based word game created and developed by software engineer Josh Wardle, and owned and published by The New York Times Company since 2022.
Can anyone make a game like Wordle?
As far as we’re aware, there’s no patent on the structure of Wordle, despite it being instantly recognisable. People have since adapted and fiddled with the form to suit the subject matter.
