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The maths-Wordle name shared by two very different games — equation guessing on one site, digit guessing on another.
What is Numberle?Nerdle inverted: the target number is given, and the hidden calculation is what you're hunting.
What is Mathler?A word game wearing a cipher: matching shapes reveal the hidden word's repeated-letter pattern before you type a thing.
What is Polygonle?Delete numbers until every row and column hits its target sum — the puzzle ChatGPT 'invented,' asterisk very much included.
What is Sumplete?The New York Times' six-numbers-to-a-target maths game — retired in 2023, still searched for, still playable in spirit.
What is NYT Digits?Half typo, half real game: the four-way tangle around one of puzzledom's most confusable names.
What is Quadle?One name, many games: a Countdown-style daily, an equation guesser, assorted clones — and a 1968 board game that beat them all to it.
What is Numble?Reach the target in five steps or fewer, reusing your own subtotals — a construction puzzle with a mode for every age.
What is Summle?Six numbers, one target, no hiding — the British game show's numbers round, served daily.
What is Countle?Wordle for primes: five digits, six guesses, and every single guess must itself be a prime number.
What is Primel?The equation's answer is shown, the numbers are hidden, and order of operations is the whole game — a teacher-built daily with three o's.
What is Ooodle?How We Compare Them#
Every guide answers the same three questions from a player’s seat: what the game actually is, how a round plays, and what carries over from Nerdle — the open-strong, read-the-feedback, eliminate-hard loop that makes all of these games click. We link to each official game and say plainly when something is a different kind of puzzle rather than a Nerdle cousin.
NerdleBuddy is an independent fan project: not affiliated with Nerdle, and not with any game on this shelf. When a fact about another game isn’t verifiable from its own site, we hedge it rather than guess. Want the head-to-head that started it all? Read Nerdle vs Wordle — or Nerdle’s own official spin-offs in the variants guide.
Frequently Asked Questions#
What games are like Nerdle?
The closest cousins swap Nerdle's guess-the-equation loop for a twist: Numberle and Mathler stay mathematical, Polygonle keeps the deduction but hides a word behind shapes, and Sumplete, Quadle, and the retired NYT Digits work the same daily-ritual muscle with different mechanics. Each has its own guide on this page.
Are these daily puzzle games free?
Many linked games offer browser play. NYT Digits is retired; its guide links to independent alternatives. Check each game's site for current access and paid options.
Which game should I try after Nerdle?
If you want more arithmetic, Mathler is the natural next step — same colour-feedback deduction, inverted goal. If you want the deduction without the maths, Polygonle is the sleeper pick. And if what you actually want is more Nerdle, the NerdleBuddy archive serves an original equation for every date since 2000.
What is a good brain puzzle to do every day?
A good daily brain puzzle is short, self-checking, and slightly out of reach — the profile every game here fits. Rotate a word game, a number game, and a logic grid across the week and you cover recall, arithmetic, and deduction without any of them going stale.
Start with the one you already know
Play today's NerdleBuddy puzzle, or use the Classic Nerdle solver to choose a next guess from your tile feedback.