The Complete List of Wordle Spinoffs

Multi-Board Wordles#

The first thing the internet asked of Wordle was “what if more of it, at once?” Every guess types into every board simultaneously.

• Dordle — Two words, one keyboard — the itch.io original that started the arms race. · Read our review
• Quordlenow at Merriam-Webster — Four boards in nine guesses. Merriam-Webster bought it in January 2023 and runs daily, Sequence, and Extreme modes. · Read our review
• Octordlenow at Britannica — Eight boards at once, published by Britannica with daily and freeplay modes. · Read our review
• Sedecordle — Sixteen boards in 21 guesses — the point where multi-Wordles stop being polite. · Read our review
• Duotrigordle — Thirty-two boards, thirty-seven guesses, one increasingly warm keyboard. · Read our review
• Kilordle — A thousand boards. Less a puzzle than an endurance sport — you clear whole boards in bulk.

Harder & Adversarial Wordles#

For players who found six guesses too generous: games that fight back, lie to you, or change the goal entirely.

• Absurdle — The cranky one. An adversarial Wordle that secretly swaps its answer to dodge your guesses for as long as the rules allow. By qntm. · Read our review
• Antiwordle — The reverse goal: avoid guessing the word while the game keeps forcing letters back into your hand. · Read our review
• Xordle — Two secret words on one board, sharing no letters, their clues overlapping into beautiful chaos. · Read our review
• Fibble — Every row of feedback contains exactly one lie. · Read our review
• Betweenle — No coloured tiles at all — each guess only tells you whether the target sits earlier or later in the alphabet. · Read our review
• Hurdlenow at Arkadium — Five chained rounds where each solved word becomes the opening guess of the next; syndicated widely by Arkadium.
• Hello Wordl — The unlimited training room: any word length from four to eleven letters, as many rounds as you want. · Read our review
• Letterle — One letter, twenty-six guesses. A perfect joke that is somehow genuinely playable.

Word Games Beyond the Grid#

Spinoffs that kept the daily ritual but threw away the five-tile board — guessing by meaning, geometry, or a whole redacted encyclopedia.

• Semantle — Guess by meaning, not spelling: a word-embedding model scores how semantically close each guess lands. · Read our review
• Contexto — Semantle’s smoother cousin — every guess gets a rank (“your word is #832”) instead of a raw similarity score. · Read our review
• Redactlemoved to redactle.net — Un-redact a Wikipedia article one common word at a time until you can name its subject; the daily continues at its new home. · Read our review
• Waffle — Six words baked into a waffle-shaped grid; swap letters into place in as few moves as possible. · Read our review
• Squaredle — A word search with a completionist streak: find every word in the grid, not just one. · Read our review
• Squareword — Five stacked Wordles that must also read as words vertically — a crossword square you deduce. · Read our review
• Spellie — Wordle for early readers, with kid-sized word lists and gentler modes. · Read our review
• Linxicon — Build a chain of semantically linked words between two words that have nothing in common.
• Conexo — Group-the-words puzzles in English and Portuguese — the format with a Brazilian accent.
• Minute Cryptic — One handcrafted cryptic-crossword clue a day, with a video walkthrough of the wordplay.

Math & Number Games#

The branch this site lives on: swap letters for digits and operators, and suddenly every guess has to compute.

• Nerdle — Guess the hidden eight-character equation in six tries — the maths spinoff this whole site exists for, with mini, micro, and maxi sizes. · Read our review
• Mathler — Find the calculation that produces today’s target number, in three difficulty sizes. · Read our review
• Primel — Wordle, except every answer is a five-digit prime. · Read our review
• Numberle — An equation guesser in the Nerdle mold, with unlimited rounds. · Read our review

Geography Games#

The strongest surviving branch of the family tree — much of it now under Teuteuf Games, the studio Worldle built.

• WorldleTeuteuf Games — Name the country from its silhouette; distance and bearing hints point you home. The flagship of the daily-geography empire. · Read our review
• Globle — Hot-or-cold on a globe: every wrong country glows warmer as you close in on the mystery one. · Read our review
• FlagleTeuteuf Games — The flag reveals itself piece by piece as you guess the country. · Read our review
• StateleTeuteuf Games — Worldle for the fifty US states.
• Countryle — Narrow the country down by hemisphere, continent, temperature, and population clues. · Read our review
• TradleOEC — Guess the country from a treemap of its exports, by the Observatory of Economic Complexity — economics nerdery at its finest. · Read our review
• TravleTeuteuf Games — Route from country A to country B in the fewest border crossings. · Read our review
• Cloudle — Guess a city’s five-day weather forecast.
• GeoGridTeuteuf Games — A 3×3 grid of country criteria to satisfy — the sports-grid formula gone geographic.
• WhenTakenTeuteuf Games — Pin a photograph to both a year and a spot on the map.
• TimeGuessr — Five historical photos a day; score points for nailing the year and the place. · Read our review

Music Games#

Heardle’s shutdown left a hole (see the graveyard below). These are the games that filled it.

• Bandle — Guess the song as the band drops in one instrument at a time, drums first. · Read our review
• Spotle — Guess the mystery music artist in ten, with feedback on debut year, genre, and listener rank. · Read our review
• Harmonies — Group-the-words for music: sort sixteen tracks and artists into four hidden groups.
• Byrdle — The choral-music Wordle, quietly publishing dailies since early 2022.

Movies, TV & Video Games#

Guess the film from its stills, its plot keywords, its emoji — or the game from its screenshots.

• Framed — Name the film from six stills, revealed one at a time. · Read our review
• Actorle — An actor’s filmography with the titles redacted; genres and years are your ladder up to the name. · Read our review
• Cine2Nerdle — Daily film grids plus a live one-on-one battle mode where you chain films by shared cast.
• Plotwords — Guess the film from its plot keywords; fewer clues, better score.
• Movie Grid — The 3×3 grid formula with actors, directors, and categories.
• EmoviTeuteuf Games — A film summarized in emoji; you name it.
• Guess The Game — Six progressively clearer screenshots of a video game.
• Gamedle — Video-game guessing in several daily modes: cover art, screenshots, characters.

Sports Games#

Player-guessers and the grid games that conquered group chats in 2023.

• Poeltl — The NBA one: guess the player from team, position, height, and age comparisons. Named for Jakob Poeltl, obviously. · Read our review
• Weddle — Poeltl’s NFL cousin, named for Eric Weddle.
• Immaculate GridSports Reference — The 3×3 baseball grid that ate sports Twitter in 2023; Sports Reference runs it now, with football, basketball, hockey, and soccer editions. · Read our review
• Puckdoku — The NHL grid.
• Chessle — Guess the full chess opening, with Wordle-style feedback on every move for both sides.
• Rankdle — Watch three gameplay clips and guess each player’s competitive rank.

Pop Culture & Gloriously Niche#

The long tail is where the format shines: the more specific the audience, the more devoted the players.

• Lewdle — Rude words only, from screenwriter Gary Whitta. Exactly as mature as it sounds. · Read our review
• Sweardle — The four-letter-word Wordle, in every sense. · Read our review
• Squirdle — Guess the Pokémon via generation, type, height, and weight comparisons.
• PokeDoku — The Pokémon take on the 3×3 grid.
• Lordle of the Rings — Middle-earth vocabulary only, from the Digital Tolkien Project.
• SWordle — Star Wars Wordle — answers span names, planets, and droids from the saga.
• Phoodle — Food words, kitchen terms, and the occasional celebrity chef. · Read our review
• Costcodle — Guess the price of a Costco product within 5%, with higher/lower feedback. Open source and gloriously specific. · Read our review
• Metazooa — Guess the mystery animal; every wrong guess reveals where you both sit on the tree of life. Its plant sibling is Metaflora. · Read our review

Where the Format Went Next: Big-Publisher Dailies#

The spinoff era’s second act. Dictionaries bought the multi-Wordles, newspapers built their own dailies, and even LinkedIn wants your streak.

• NYT Connections — Sixteen words, four hidden groups, one purple category designed to hurt you — the Times’ biggest post-Wordle hit. · Read our review
• NYT Strands — A themed word search with one board-spanning “spangram.” · Read our review
• NYT Pips — The Times’ dominoes-placement logic daily, added in 2025.
• LinkedIn Games — Queens, Tango, Pinpoint, Crossclimb, Zip — daily puzzles living inside a professional network, streaks and all.
• KeywordWashington Post — Six words each missing one letter; the missing letters spell the day’s keyword.
• Bracket CityThe Atlantic — Solve nested bracketed clues until a sentence about this date in history emerges; The Atlantic acquired it in 2025.
• PuzzmoHearst — Zach Gage’s daily-puzzle platform — crosswords, SpellTower, Really Bad Chess — syndicated across Hearst’s papers.
• Netflix Puzzled — Netflix’s daily-puzzle hub, playable on the web without a subscription.

The Wordle Graveyard#

A complete list owes you the endings too. These 10 made the format’s history and are gone — or live somewhere their old address won’t take you.

• Heardle — The music-intro guesser. Spotify bought it in July 2022 and shut it down on May 5, 2023 — the canonical death of the spinoff era. Only unofficial revivals remain. · Read our review
• Taylordle — The Taylor Swift Wordle from the Holy Swift podcast; its creators wound it down in 2022. Today’s taylordle domains are unaffiliated clones.
• NYT Digits — The Times’ own arithmetic daily lasted four months of beta before being shut down in August 2023 — proof that even the biggest publisher kills games.
• Squabble — Wordle as a 99-player battle royale. Brilliant, briefly huge; the site has gone dark.
• Wordle Unlimited — The best-known unlimited clone disappeared after Wordle joined the Times; the name now belongs to a swarm of imitators.
• Moviedle & Posterdle — Jeremy Toeman’s film dailies moved into the Likewise app in 2024. The original moviedle.app domain now serves an unaffiliated lookalike — a textbook case for checking where a dead game’s name ended up.
• Gordle — The NHL-surnames Wordle beloved of hockey podcasts; the original has vanished, clones remain.
• Ooodle — A daily five-number equation game; the original site vanished, leaving only mirrors.
• Foodle — The original food Wordle faded and clone farms scooped up the name. Phoodle, above, carries the food torch.
• Yeardle — Guess the year of a historical event; the original shut down, with third-party revivals filling the gap.

Frequently Asked Questions#