Wordle
Six guesses at one five-letter word. Each guess is marked letter by letter: green in place, yellow elsewhere in the word, grey absent. One puzzle a day; past puzzles are behind the subscription.
Games like Wordle: a directory by mechanic
Thirty-four word games, grouped by the mechanic each one is built on. Every entry lists the maker where there is one, the format, what a turn is, and what it costs.
Checked October 2026: every link opened, every price and paywall confirmed on that date.
Guess and get feedback
The closest games to Wordle: a whole word is submitted; the game reports how close it was; the next guess is constrained by the report.
Contexto
Each guess returns a rank for how close it is in meaning to the answer, with 1 being the answer itself; guesses are unlimited. Closeness comes from how words are used together in text, not from spelling.
Semantle
The same idea as Contexto with a score instead of a rank: every guess is rated by how close its meaning sits to the answer, and the closest thousand words are flagged as warm. Guesses are unlimited.
Betweenle
Feedback by alphabet rather than by letter: each guess is placed in alphabetical order against the secret word, so the answer is boxed in between the nearest guess before it and the nearest after.
Redactle
A whole Wikipedia article with every word blacked out except the common ones. Guess words to reveal them wherever they occur, and finish by naming the article. Guesses are unlimited; the score is how many it took.
Dartwords
Ten guesses at one secret word. Each guess lands as a dart on a board that shows how close it was, and the game's character answers it with a one-word clue.
Glyph
The answer's letters are drawn stacked on top of one another as a single shape, the glyph. Any word may be tried, four attempts in all: a letter in the right position locks into the word and leaves the glyph, and a letter in the wrong position is coloured in within it.
Wordle variants and multi-board
Wordle's rule kept, with more boards to solve at once or a twist on the grid.
Quordle
Four Wordle grids solved at once with nine guesses shared between them; every guess is applied to all four boards.
Octordle
Eight boards and thirteen guesses, each guess applied to every board at once.
Sedecordle
Sixteen boards and twenty-one guesses, each guess applied to every board at once. A second mode has the words solved one at a time.
Duotrigordle
Thirty-two boards and thirty-seven guesses: the far end of the multi-board form, where the game is scheduling which board each guess serves.
Dordle
Two boards and seven guesses, the smallest of the multi-board family and the first of them.
Rushle
Twenty-six hidden words, and every guess is checked against all of them at once. A letter shows only where it sits in the same position in a hidden word, with nothing marked for a letter that is elsewhere in it. A word clears once all its letters are filled in, and its letters then show in the same positions in every other word. A guess that clears no word is a miss, and ten misses are allowed.
Waffle
Six five-letter words laid out as a waffle-shaped grid, every letter present but scrambled. The puzzle is solved by swapping letters, fifteen swaps at most, with Wordle's green-and-yellow marking showing which are home.
Group words that belong together
Games like Connections: the words are given; the puzzle is finding which ones share a category.
Connections
Sixteen words, four hidden groups of four, four mistakes allowed. Words are chosen so that several fit more than one group; each category is revealed, colour-coded by difficulty, as it is solved.
Pinpoint
Connections turned around: five words that share one category are revealed one at a time, and the puzzle is naming the category from as few of them as possible.
4 × 3
Nine words in four categories of three, which adds up because one word belongs to all four. Each guess is the three words of one category; mistakes cost points, and past puzzles are kept in an archive.
Vennections
Nine words are sorted into three groups of three, which reveals three categories. The puzzle then asks for one more word, not among the nine, that joins all three categories; it may be guessed at any point.
Layers
Four mini-games come first, LetterLock, an anagram, a crossword and a word search, and each unlocks one word. Those four words join twelve others on a board of sixteen, to be sorted into four hidden groups of four with a limited number of mistakes.
Trace a path through adjacent letters
Games like Squaredle and Strands: the board is a grid, and a word must step from each letter to a neighbouring tile.
Squaredle
A small grid holding dozens of words, connected in any direction including diagonally, plus a bonus list of obscure words that does not count toward the total. The Express variant at squaredle.app/xp is a smaller grid.
Strands
A themed word search on a grid of forty-eight letters in which every letter belongs to exactly one answer, so the board is empty when finished. One answer, the spangram, names the theme and runs from one edge of the board to the other.
SpellTower
Adjacency with gravity: clearing a word collapses the board above it, so each move changes the board the next is played on.
Beat Me at Boggle
Boggle against its maker: three minutes on a grid of sixteen letters, with words formed from letters that touch in any direction, diagonals included. The target is the score the maker set the day before, with a bonus point for any word the maker missed and more for longer words.
Make words from a set of letters
Games like Spelling Bee: order does not matter; the letters are rearranged.
Spelling Bee
Seven letters, one of them required in every word, as many words as can be found. Progress is reported as a rank from Beginner to Genius, with Queen Bee for finding every word. Free players meet the paywall part-way through a puzzle.
Blossom
Spelling Bee's seven letters with a budget instead of a hunt: only twelve words may be played, so the game is choosing them. Longer words score more, and a bonus letter that changes with each word pays extra.
Word Play
A spelling roguelike released in 2025: a run is built from modifiers, tile upgrades and new tile types, with words formed from a hand of letter tiles.
Word ladders
Word ladder games: each step changes a single letter and has to land on a real word. Some of the games here widen the step to an added letter, an anagram or a clue.
Raddle
A ladder from a starting word to a target word. Each rung is reached by applying one of a list of clues to the word before it, whether a letter removed, an anagram or a change of meaning, and the clues are not given in ladder order.
Crossclimb
Trivia clues whose answers are all one letter apart from one another; once solved they are put in ladder order, which unlocks the clues for the top and bottom rungs.
Poople
A ladder with a fixed last rung: a four-letter starting word is chosen each day, and every puzzle ends on POOP. One letter changes per step, and the score is the number of steps beyond the shortest path.
Word Bunny
A ladder with a wider step: a move adds, removes, replaces, moves or swaps a letter, each result has to be a real word, and no word may be used twice. A puzzle runs from a starting word through a chain of target words, and the number of moves is set against a par.
Constellate
A network of clued words rather than a single ladder. Each answer is tied to a neighbour by a stated relation, such as one letter changed, an anagram or a rhyme, so a solved word narrows the ones around it.
Solve a cryptic clue
One clue in the style of a cryptic crossword: a definition and a piece of wordplay that both lead to the same answer.
Parseword
One cryptic clue a day, solved by rewriting it: words in the clue are selected and replaced from a list of options, step by step, until the clue has become its answer. Josh Wardle, who made Wordle, is one of its three makers. Only the current week's puzzles are kept.
Minute Cryptic
One cryptic clue a day, with hints to call on and a video explaining the answer. Courses on the same site teach the kinds of clue one at a time.
Spell in order, without touching
The letters must appear in order but need not be adjacent; any number of letters may be skipped between them. This is an ordered subsequence, a different constraint from a path, an anagram or a ladder.
Elided
Three rounds of sixteen letters. In each, one word is longer than every other the dictionary can find there, and you have four guesses to spell it by tapping letters left to right, skipping any number between them. Any other word marks the tiles it used as in or out of that word, and fewer guesses earn more stars. One ranked attempt per date, archive days included. The rules are on one page.
At a glance
| Game | Mechanic | Format | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wordle | Guess and feedback | Daily, browser | Free; archive paid |
| Contexto | Guess and feedback | Daily, browser | Free |
| Semantle | Guess and feedback | Daily, browser | Free |
| Betweenle | Guess and feedback | Daily, browser and app | Free |
| Redactle | Guess and feedback | Daily, browser | Free |
| Dartwords | Guess and feedback | Daily, browser | Free |
| Glyph | Guess and feedback | Daily, browser and app | Free |
| Quordle | Wordle variant | Daily, browser | Free |
| Octordle | Wordle variant | Daily, browser | Free |
| Sedecordle | Wordle variant | Daily, browser | Free |
| Duotrigordle | Wordle variant | Daily, browser | Free |
| Dordle | Wordle variant | Daily, browser | Free |
| Rushle | Wordle variant | Daily, browser | Free |
| Waffle | Wordle variant | Daily, browser | Free |
| Connections | Grouping | Daily, browser | Free |
| Pinpoint | Grouping | Daily, browser and app | Free; account optional |
| 4 × 3 | Grouping | Daily, browser | Free |
| Vennections | Grouping | Daily, browser | Free |
| Layers | Grouping | Daily, browser and app | Free; archive paid |
| Squaredle | Adjacent path | Daily, browser | Free; membership optional |
| Strands | Adjacent path | Daily, browser | Free |
| SpellTower | Adjacent path | App with a daily mode | Paid unlock |
| Beat Me at Boggle | Adjacent path | Daily, browser | Free |
| Spelling Bee | Anagram | Daily, browser | Subscription |
| Blossom | Anagram | Daily, browser | Free |
| Word Play | Anagram | Not a daily; Steam | Paid |
| Raddle | Word ladder | Daily, browser | Free |
| Crossclimb | Word ladder | Daily, browser and app | Free; account optional |
| Poople | Word ladder | Daily, browser | Free |
| Word Bunny | Word ladder | Daily, browser | Free |
| Constellate | Word ladder | Daily, browser | Free |
| Parseword | Cryptic clue | Daily, browser and app | Free |
| Minute Cryptic | Cryptic clue | Daily, browser | Free; past clues paid |
| Elided | Ordered subsequence | Daily, browser | Free |