Wordle-like Games—general discussion

[Brian Boru]

We already have threads for Wordle, Quordle, WorLdle and Nerdle. There are lots more out there, and I plan to try some out over time, beginning with suggestions from this PCG article.

If you have any favorites, please post a paragraph or two and a link. We'll see if any grab interest from a few of you and warrant their own thread.

 

[Brian Boru]

Waffle

I like this once-a-day word game. 5x5 square, with 3 horizontal words and 3 vertical. All the letters are supplied in the grid, with the familiar coloring—green correct where they are, yellow elsewhere in that word, and white not in the right place.

Gameplay involves dragging and dropping the yellows and whites, to end up with 6 whole words. Game allows you 15 moves, and says every grid can be solved with 10 moves—you get 5 stars for 10 moves, 4 for 11, etc.

In my first shot below, it took me 12 so I got 3 stars—3 goldies in the grid, and 3/5 in the title line. Give it a shot, it's pretty quick.

#waffle61 3/5

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩⭐🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩⭐🟩🟩
🟩⬜🟩⭐🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

🔥 streak: 1
wafflegame.net

 

[Colif]

only a matter of time
Scrabble

although its not exactly the same... is it.

 

[Brian Boru]

Squareword

Hmm, I'll give this once-a-day word game a few more goes, I'm not sure if I like it yet. It's a nice design, interesting, but the mechanics weren't/aren't clear to me—I think I have 'em now, but of course please correct me if not.

5x5 grid, but this time 10 words to make—not obvious to me the verticals had to also be words, but they do.

You guess a word up top in a non-grid row, and it fills in any letters which are in the correct place for the horizontal words in the grid—ie the greens—while no clue is given for the vertical words' letters. In a non-grid column on the right side, you get the letters for each horizontal word which are in the wrong place—ie the yellows.

Each word you guess up top is 'applied' to each of the 5 horizontal words in the grid. You get max 15 guesses.

I know this probably sounds confusing, just go give it a shot—it'll come clearer quickly.

squareword.org 51: 9 guesses

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<6:🟩 <11:🟨 <16:🟧 more:🟥

Took me 9 guesses. The diagram shows green for letters I guessed right in 5 or fewer, and yellow for 6-9.

 

[ZedClampet]

On habit, I quickly skipped the instructions for Waffle and then had no idea what I was doing. I got it, but got no stars . Squareword was fun. I liked that one better, but that may just be because I didn't read the instructions on the first one.

 

[ZedClampet]

Framed - The daily movie guessing game

Guess the movie from 6 frames. Come back each day to see if you can guess the daily movie, or visit the archive to answer the days that you missed!

framed.wtf

https://www.pcgamer.com/this-wordle-game-for-movie-buffs-challenges-you-to-spot-the-film/

I don't watch movies, but you all might like it.

 

[Brian Boru]

movies

Ooh, competition for the existing mega thread:

Quiz: Name that movie

Greetings community. I like movie quizzes and thought it was time to make one. Rules are simple: The one who guesses the right movie makes a new snippet from a movie of choice or asks someone else to do it. Try to make the picture a small as possible without it getting too blurry. Please do...

forums.pcgamer.com

Not my cuppa either.

 

[Brian Boru]

Letterle

This could be the one! Very quick, highly intuitive interface, just try it.

Spoiler: My first effort—but play yours first

Letterle 16/26
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https://edjefferson.com/letterle/

 

[Brian Boru]

Absurdle

Probably not one for a thread, as you can play as often as you like and there are no ID numbers on each puzzle.

Absurdle 6/∞

🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩
⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
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The ∞ in my score means infinity—so you get as many guesses as you want, game says 4 is the lowest possible.

The catch is that the game plays against you, changing the target word if necessary, to reveal as little info as possible. That's just mean, right?

I can see myself popping back to this occasionally—eg my second try:

Absurdle 6/∞
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜
⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜
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Just for interest, I tried the same 2 opening words, and got the same 2 yellows. So then I tried the answer to #1 in L3, but the game diverged.
Still, the kind of boss fight I can handle

 

[Brian Boru]

Hello Wordl

Same as Wordle, but you can change the number of letters. I tried with 6:

hello wordl

A word-guessing game

hellowordl.net

hello wordl 2/6
🟨⬛🟨🟨🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
A 2-liner! Is that a fluke, or is 6 easier than 5? I'm fairly sure the URL above is to my specific game—if you play it, my answer was DIALOG

There's also a link to a daily game on the page, so again I go with 6—this link should get you the same one:
hello wordl 4/6
⬛⬛⬛🟩🟨🟨
⬛🟩🟨🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
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Bummer, first was indeed a fluke

Okay, last shot at an 11-letter monster, the largest allowed [4 is smallest]!

hello wordl

A word-guessing game

hellowordl.net

hello wordl 4/6
⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩🟨🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟨⬛⬛🟩🟩🟨⬛🟨🟨🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Ok this doesn't work, I had to go to the dictionary AND get lucky—also took ~20 minutes which is way too long for me.

Nice variation, should work in the 6-7 range I guess.

 

[ZedClampet]

Letterle

This could be the one! Very quick, highly intuitive interface, just try it.

Spoiler: My first effort—but play yours first

Letterle 16/26
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https://edjefferson.com/letterle/

Letterle 7/26
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https://edjefferson.com/letterle/

 

[Brian Boru]

You're the champ! Put it out on SocMed asap!!

 

[ZedClampet]

You're the champ! Put it out on SocMed asap!!

I'll pass on showing my clearly superior brand of genius in this case. The funny part is that the answer was "A". If I had gone in alphabetical order, I'd have gotten it in 1.

 

[Brian Boru]

#waffle63 5/5
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩
🟩🟩⭐🟩🟩
🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩
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Woohoo, that's a top score.

squareword.org 53: 7 guesses
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That's probably a good score, since I assume 5 is top.

 

[Brian Boru]

#waffle64 5/5
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩
🟩🟩⭐🟩🟩
🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
wafflegame.net

squareword.org 54: 8 guesses
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Absurdle 5/∞
https://qntm.org/files/absurdle/absurdle.html
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
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⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

 

[COLGeek]

#waffle65 2/5

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩⭐🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩⬜🟩⭐🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

🔥 streak: 1
wafflegame.net

 

[COLGeek]

Letterle 3/26
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https://edjefferson.com/letterle/

 

[Brian Boru]

#waffle66 3/5
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩⭐🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩⭐🟩🟩
🟩⬜🟩⭐🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
wafflegame.net

Puzzled by this—every move I made got green, but didn't make 5 stars. Maybe there was a better way…?

 

[Brian Boru]

squareword.org 55: 10 guesses

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<6:🟩 <11:🟨 <16:🟧 more:🟥

 

[Brian Boru]

Maybe there was a better way…?

There was—GF got 4 stars & said she got a double-green on one move.

squareword.org 56: 8 guesses
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[ZedClampet]

squareword.org 57: 7 guesses

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<6:🟩 <11:🟨 <16:🟧 more:🟥

 

[ZedClampet]

Daily Dordle #0064 4&5/7
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

 

[ZedClampet]

Daily Octordle #64
5️⃣🕚
8️⃣🔟
3️⃣9️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
octordle.com

CONFUSION

 

[Brian Boru]

Daily Dordle #0064 5&6/7
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟩⬜🟩
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟨🟩🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

 

[Brian Boru]

squareword.org 57: 8 guesses

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🟨🟨🟩🟩🟨
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<6:🟩 <11:🟨 <16:🟧 more:🟥
#squareword #squareword57

#waffle68 4/5

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

🔥 streak: 5
wafflegame.net