Game Roundup
If you have finished today's Wordle and want more, dozens of daily puzzles use the same one-a-day, guess-and-narrow format. They split into four families: word variants, math, geography, and character guessing. Here is a guided tour with where to find each answer and solver.
Word variants
These keep the letter-guessing core but change the shape. Quordle runs four boards at once; Waffle scrambles overlapping words; Betweenle hides a word behind alphabetical bounds; Phoodle and Canuckle are themed five-letter games.
Word-based picks
- Quordle: four Wordle boards, nine shared guesses.
- Waffle: fix a scrambled grid in minimum swaps.
- Betweenle: binary-search a hidden word by alphabetical order.
- Phoodle and Canuckle: themed five-letter dailies.
Math, geography, and characters
Each of these rewards a different skill: arithmetic, geography, or fandom knowledge. The guessing loop is familiar even when the subject is not.
Beyond words
- Nerdle: Wordle for equations, with color feedback on digits and operators.
- Worldle and Globle: guess countries from shape or proximity.
- Countryle: identify a country from continent, area, and population clues.
- LoLdle, Pokedle, Narutodle, Smashdle: guess characters from franchise clues.
Where to find answers and solvers
The point of playing several is variety without decision fatigue: the same guess-and-narrow instinct transfers, so you improve at all of them at once.
One hub for all of them
Every game above has an answer-today page and, in most cases, a dedicated solver on this site. Start at the Today hub for answers or the Solver hub to work a puzzle step by step.
The whole family, by what it scores
The useful way to compare these games is not by theme but by what their feedback describes. Every one of them narrows the field by returning an ordered signal, and the signal is what makes one game feel like a word game and another feel like a search problem.
The table below sets out each game alongside the constraint it returns feedback on. Once you read it that way, the family stops looking like twenty variations on Wordle and starts looking like a small number of distinct puzzle types wearing different skins.
It also explains why the games are not interchangeable in difficulty. A game that reports a numeric similarity gives you something you can follow; a game that reports only higher-or-lower gives you a single bit per turn.
| Game | What its feedback describes |
|---|---|
| Quordle | Letters and positions, scored against four separate answers at once. |
| Waffle | Placement of scrambled letters across a grid of crossing words. |
| Betweenle | Alphabetical order only: higher or lower, with no letter clue. |
| Nerdle | The digits, operator and equals sign of an arithmetic equation. |
| Globle | Geographic proximity to a target country, shown as warmth. |
| Worldle | Country outline, distance in kilometres and direction. |
| Contexto | A rank by meaning, where rank 1 is the answer. |
| Semantle | A similarity score by meaning, with no reference to spelling. |
| Colordle | Three independent colour channels with high-or-low feedback. |
Group by the constraint, not by the theme: that is what determines the strategy worth using.
Comparing the budgets
The other axis worth comparing is how much room each game gives you. Wordle gives six guesses, Quordle gives nine across four boards, Nerdle gives six for an eight-character equation, and Waffle gives fifteen swaps but awards its full rating only for ten.
Those numbers decide how much of a game you can spend on information. Six guesses at five letters is tight enough that the first two are almost entirely informational. Quordle's nine guesses spread over four boards are only generous if your early guesses serve all four.
The chart below puts the allowances side by side. Waffle is deliberately shown with its swap count, which is a different unit to a guess — the caption says so, because mixing the two would make the comparison misleading.
Guess allowances for every game except Waffle, which counts swaps. Waffle awards full marks for finishing within ten.
The numbers worth remembering
Four figures cover most of what you need to know before picking up any of these games. Two of them describe Quordle, which is the only game in the list that multiplies the problem rather than changing its shape.
The other two describe Nerdle, which goes the other way: it does not add boards, it changes what a tile is. Eight characters of arithmetic means the feedback is about digits and structure, so a player who brings word-game instincts to it will spend the first guess testing letters that do not exist.
Keeping the multiplication in mind matters because it is the trap of the family. Four boards sounds like four times the difficulty; with nine guesses each providing four readings, it is closer to four times the reward, provided the opening guesses are shared.
- Boards in Quordle
- 4
- Four answers, one shared guess list.
- Guesses in Quordle
- 9
- Nine guesses across all four boards.
- Quordle tiles of feedback
- 36
- Nine guesses times four boards.
- Characters in a Nerdle equation
- 8
- Six digits, one operator and one equals sign.
Games-like-Wordle questions
What daily games are most like Wordle?
Quordle, Waffle, and Betweenle keep the letter-guessing core closest. Nerdle applies the same idea to math, while Worldle and Globle apply it to geography.
Are there solvers for these games?
Yes. This site has dedicated solvers for most of them, plus daily answer pages, so you can either work the puzzle with hints or check the solution.
Which daily game is closest to Wordle?
Canuckle and Phoodle keep the letter-and-position feedback and change the word list. Quordle keeps the same feedback but multiplies it across four boards, which changes the strategy rather than the mechanics.
Are any of these games limited to one puzzle a day?
The daily versions are, which is what gives them the shared-answer format. Several of them also offer archives or practice modes where the puzzle count is not limited, which is what makes them useful for deliberate practice.