Wordle Variations
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by Majed ElAlfy, 801
The last game that actually revolves around guessing EngOk, so you’ve heard of Wordle, the hit lish words is Squabble, which game where you have 6 guesses to is exactly the same as Wordle, guess a random word each day. But except you are put head-tohave you heard of Worldle? Mathler? head with others trying to These are two of the many spin-offs guess words fastest. Each of Wordle (If you don’t know what word you guess correctly, you Wordle is, there is an article about it gain time on your timer, and if in the February issue), and through you guess words incorrectly, this article, I will be going over the you will lose time. You also variations that I know of, but there lose a point per second, so are plenty more for us to find and you can’t think too long about it. solve (the links to all of these games There are two different modes, blitz are at the end of this article) and Squabble royale, which are the same format but the time and numLet’s first start with the ones closest ber of opponents changes between to Wordle, in Quordle and Octordle. the two. There’s even a two-player These three are all word guessing co-op mode in ‘Wordle off,’ where games, but as you might be able to you and a friend can join together to tell from the names have more words try and find the word! for you to guess. Both are played in the exact same fashion as Wordle, guessing words with green yellow and gray to indicate where letters are in the word. In Quordle, there are 4 words you have to guess, and you are given 9 tries to do so, and in Octordle, there are 8 words to guess with 13 attempts. Just as a note before we continue, most of these spinoffs have practice modes, so even Lastly, I will talk about some other after you complete the daily mode Wordles that follow the same format you can still continue playing. but are on different topics. Squardle is the second one I will talk about, as it is fairly complex. The goal is to solve a 5x5 grid with 6 words (image below), and are given 10 guesses to do so, but every time you get a word right, you are given another guess. The different colours and rules are also explained below, though with the
only difference being that in Nerdle, you also guess the answer—another layer of difficulty. Lastly, there are two geographybased Wordles, Globle and Worldle. In Globle, you have to guess the country based on colour-coded proximity on the globe displayed by the website. Next, in Worldle, there is a silhouette of a country that you have to guess, and with each guess, you can see how far away it is, the direction of where the correct country is, and how correct your guess was compared to the answer.
Due to the insane popularity of Wordle, there will be many spin-offs and variations as people copy the success of Wordle, but ultimately there will likely not likely be another game that reaches the same level of For our music lovers, there’s Byrdle, a success. They are definitely fun to game where you guess different mu- play as a variation to Wordle. sical-related words from around the https://www.byrdle.net/ world (choir, Zadok, and motet to name a few). Then there’s Squirdle, a https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/ https://www.quordle.com/#/ Pokémon version of Wordle, and https://squabble.me/ Dungleon, which is a sort of dungeon- https://globle-game.com/ style Wordle; it’s best explained by https://octordle.com/ playing it. https://www.dungleon.com/ There are two different math Wordles: Nerdle, and Mathler. Both follow the same concept, using digits and operations instead of words, with the @theHelm ~ page 18
https://squirdle.fireblend.com/daily https://fubargames.se/squardle/ https://nerdlegame.com/ https://mathler.com/ http://wordle.jonyork.net/
