Games Like Wordle

Four Wordle boards, nine guesses, every guess typed into all four at once. Merriam-Webster runs it now, with Chill, Extreme, and Sequence modes beside the daily.

Eight boards and thirteen guesses, published by Britannica. The sweet spot between Quordle's four and the endurance-run variants.

The two-board original that kicked off the multi-Wordle arms race, still on itch.io.

Sixteen boards in 21 guesses, for players who treat Octordle as a warm-up.

Thirty-two simultaneous boards and 37 guesses — the deep end of the multi-board pool.

Wordle without the once-a-day limit: pick any word length from four to eleven letters and play as many rounds as you like.

An adversarial Wordle that hasn't picked a word at all — it keeps the largest possible pool alive and dodges your guesses until logic corners it.

The goal flips: you lose by guessing the word. Locked-in letters must be reused, so the game keeps dragging you toward the answer.

Two secret words hide on one board and share no letters — every row of feedback describes both at once.

Wordle where every row of clues contains exactly one lie you have to identify.

No coloured tiles: each guess only narrows where the target sits alphabetically between your words.

Six words baked into a waffle-shaped grid arrive pre-scrambled; you have 15 swaps to set them all straight, and five stars means a perfect solve.

A daily word search with a completionist streak: trace every word hiding in the grid, not just one.

Five stacked five-letter answers that must also read as words down the columns — a crossword square you deduce Wordle-style.

Forget spelling — Semantle scores every guess by how close its meaning sits to the secret word, and the hunt can take dozens of guesses.

The friendlier take on meaning-based guessing: every word gets a rank, and you climb from #4,000-something toward #1.

A Wikipedia article with almost every word blacked out; reveal common words one at a time until you can name the subject.

Sixteen words, four hidden groups, and a purple category built to mislead you — the New York Times' biggest daily hit since Wordle itself.

The Times' themed word search: find the theme words, then the 'spangram' that spans the whole board.

Wordle sized for early readers, with grade-banded word lists and emoji encouragement.

Wordle for foodies: every answer is a food word, and a kitchen fact follows each solve.

A four-letter Wordle where every answer is exactly the kind of four-letter word you think.

Rude words only, from screenwriter Gary Whitta — the NSFW corner of the family tree.

Wordle in reverse: you get the solved bottom row and rebuild the guess grid above it so every row's colours check out.

You're told the target number; find the hidden calculation that produces it. Easy, normal, and hard sizes change how much equation you juggle.

Wordle where every answer is a five-digit prime. Divisibility rules become your vowels.

An equation-guessing daily in the Nerdle mold with unlimited extra rounds.

Name the country from its silhouette; each miss reports the distance and direction to the answer. The game that turned Teuteuf into a daily-geography studio.

Hot-and-cold on a 3D globe: every country you guess glows warmer the closer it borders the mystery one.

The mystery country's flag reveals itself panel by panel as you guess.

Get from country A to country B in the fewest border crossings you can manage.

Guess the country from a treemap of its exports, run by the Observatory of Economic Complexity.

Hemisphere, continent, average temperature, and population clues narrow the mystery country guess by guess.

Five historical photos a day; you score points for pinning each one to the right year and the right spot on the map.

Name the song as the band builds it up one instrument at a time, starting from just the drums.

Guess the mystery music artist in ten tries, with debut-year, genre, and popularity comparisons after each guess.

The intro-guessing music daily that Spotify bought in 2022 and shut down in 2023. Its story — and what to play instead — is worth knowing.

Six stills from one film, revealed one at a time; name it before the frames run out.

An actor's filmography with every title redacted — years, genres, and ratings are your ladder to the name.

Fill a 3×3 grid with players who match both their row and column criteria; rarer answers score better. Baseball first, now most major sports.

The NBA guessing game: team, position, height, and age comparisons steer you to the mystery player.

Guess the price of a Costco product within 5%, higher/lower style. Weirdly compelling, entirely free.

Guess the mystery animal; every miss shows where your guess and the answer part ways on the tree of life.

Seven letters in a hive, one mandatory centre letter, and every word you can build from them. Free play stops at an early rank — the full puzzle needs a NYT Games subscription.

Chain words around a square of twelve letters — consecutive letters can't share a side, and each word starts where the last one ended. Subscriber-only since August 2025.

The Times' bite-size crossword: usually five-by-five, timed, and over with your coffee. Behind the NYT Games subscription since August 2025.

Drag dominoes onto a board so every coloured region's rule checks out — sums, matches, comparisons. The Times' first pure logic daily, in three difficulties.

One crown per row, column, and coloured region, never touching — the timed daily logic hit hiding inside LinkedIn. Needs a free LinkedIn account.

Balance suns and moons across a six-by-six grid under strict no-three-in-a-row rules. From LinkedIn's daily games page; account required.

Five clues, one hidden category, and more points the earlier you call it. LinkedIn's word-association daily; account required.

Draw one path that hits the numbered dots in order and fills every cell. LinkedIn's fastest daily — a minute on a good day; account required.

A daily mini murder mystery: match suspects, weapons, and rooms on a deduction grid until the accusation writes itself. Spawned a bestselling book series.

Carve a tower of letters into the words that tile it — no ads, no account, and a perfect solve draws a flat line.

Swap sixteen tiles until every row and column names one movie — or link films head-to-head against a live opponent in Battle mode.

Framed for video games: name the title from up to six screenshots, with a metadata hint after every miss.

Identify games from de-pixelating covers, keywords, characters, and artwork across six daily modes — with unlimited practice when the dailies run out.

GeoGuessr for dinner: study a dish and pin down which country it comes from, three rounds a day.

One cryptic crossword clue a day, with step-by-step hints and a video that unpacks the wordplay. The gentlest on-ramp to cryptics.

A full daily games page — reimagined crossword, SpellTower, TypeShift, Really Bad Chess, and more. Free to play, with a paid tier for extras.

Five photographs, one slider: score by how close you land to the year each was taken. Sharpens your eye for cars, haircuts, and film grain.

Five trivia questions a day, three clues each, worth 3-2-1 points as the hints get easier. From the pub-quiz company Geeks Who Drink.