Play Wordle
Sort sixteen words into four hidden groups of four. Watch out for red herrings: plenty of words look like they fit more than one category, and you only get four mistakes.
Games like Wordle
Finished today's Wordle and want more? These daily word games scratch the same itch. Some stick closely to the five-letter formula with extra boards or twists, while others swap spelling for meaning, letter swaps or hidden themes. All are free to play in your browser, with a new puzzle every day.
Find the secret word by meaning, not spelling. Every guess is ranked by how closely it relates to the answer, so follow the trail of 'warm' words until you land on number one.
Four Wordles at once. Every guess goes on all four boards, and you have nine tries to solve them all. A great step up once regular Wordle feels too easy.
Make as many words as you can from seven letters arranged in a honeycomb. Every word must use the center letter, and finding a pangram that uses all seven earns bonus points on your way to Queen Bee.
A themed word search from the New York Times. Find the theme words hidden in a letter grid, plus the 'spangram' that spells out the theme and stretches from one side of the board to the other.
All the letters are already on the board, just in the wrong places. Swap tiles to rebuild six interlocking words in a waffle-shaped grid, using as few swaps as you can.
An adversarial version of Wordle where the game actively avoids giving you the answer, changing the hidden word with every guess. Can you corner it?
A trivia word ladder from LinkedIn. Solve the clues, then arrange the answers so each word differs from the one above it by a single letter. Speed counts, so it's a race against the clock.
Two Wordle boards side by side with seven guesses to solve both. A gentle introduction to multi-board word games.
Eight hidden words, thirteen guesses. Octordle takes the multi-board Wordle idea to the extreme, so plan your guesses carefully to cover as many letters as possible.
LinkedIn's category-guessing game. Words are revealed one at a time, up to five, and you have to work out the category that links them. The fewer clues you need, the better your score.
A tricky word game where each guess gets a similarity score based on meaning. Unlimited guesses, but working your way to the secret word takes real lateral thinking.
Find every word hidden in a small square letter grid by connecting adjacent letters. Unlike Boggle, you can travel diagonally and there's no timer, so it's just you against the full word list.
LinkedIn's newest word game. Trace paths through eighteen letter tiles on a 5x5 board to find four hidden words of three, four, five and six letters, using every tile exactly once.
The Athletic's take on NYT Connections. Sort sixteen sports names and terms into four hidden groups.
A Wikipedia article with almost every word blacked out. Guess words to reveal them throughout the page until you can work out the article's title.
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Wordle started the craze, but there's a whole world of daily word puzzles out there. Guess hidden words, find connections, build words from letter grids and test your vocabulary with a fresh challenge every day.
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