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Looking for games like wordle
Recently on here someone recommended a game called travle, which is a lot of fun even though I suck at it, as do my friends who play. Can anyone recommend other similar "one puzzle per day" style games?
Worldle is fun if you have approximate knowledge of the world map.
I have approximate knowledge of many things, Serdadu
Or if you don't! That and Travle are part of my daily self improvement routine.
I've done Worldle a few times and I like it okay, but I'm really bad with country shapes when they're taken out of the context of a larger world map. I like Globle for brushing up on geography. It's also a country guessing game, but you're given hot/cold hints by distance as you guess countries.
I occasionally play Worldle and Globle, and have the same experience in terms of country shape; so arbitrary for me, and the lack of consistent scaling is annoying. Still, I find it interesting to try playing Worldle based on geographic hints the shape gives (does it look island, coastal, or landlocked? Are the borders flat and arbitrary, or follow rivers/mountains?) and at least see how close I can get.
I really like the "spelling doesn't count" interface.
If you want to drive yourself nuts: Sporcle - Europe/No Outlines. Not sure how it performs on a phone. Other continents, and easier and harder geography game are available. Also many other trivia type games.
ooof. That was quite frustrating - I wound up quitting before I finished, lol. I think I would like it better if it was more like Geoguessr where it scored you on how close you were. There were several times where I was just barely outside the border of a county but missed it.
I stumbled into this when the Wordle craze hit just to try something new. I've always liked geography, but couldn't identify that many countries by their silhouette. A year into playing this for a few minutes each morning and my ability to name the country in question has surpassed what I ever thought possible. Hooray for spaced-repetition. Some countries in Africa and those pesky island nations will trip me up from time-to-time, but I recommend it to anyone who thinks this sort of thing sounds fun.
I played it for about a year. I found it a bit like GeoGuessr -- look at the shape and decide if it's got a coastline which helps a lot (kinda like a jigsaw edge piece), or try to sense the geographic features and where it fits into a certain part of the world.
For anyone who wants to improve their country geography, I can recommend Lizard Point.
Murdle is a fun daily logic puzzle that is murder mystery themed.
Each day, you have to solve a murder case, discovering details such as who is the murderer, where did the murder occur, how did it occur, what was the murderer's motive, etc.
You are given a list of facts, and in some cases, mini-puzzles to solve (fingerprints, horoscope, two truths and a lie, etc.). Using the details you've gathered, you have to solve the puzzle using logic and deduction.
Puzzles start off easy at the start of the week (Monday) and get progressively harder throughout the week until the weekend. The Sunday puzzles often challenge me, giving my brain a good workout.
Overall, pretty fun.
Thank you for sharing this! I've added it to my dailies. I love logic puzzles.
A group of friends and I have a whole set of these we do nightly:
Connections is really great. I just wish it let you go back and do the one’s you missed.
Puzzmo! Heard about it on Mastadon when it was invite only (and had to complete a puzzle for the invite).
It has 4 daily puzzles (not wordle-style puzzles, but one-a-day puzzles), and I tend to do 2-3 of them. There is a “pro” subscription for leaderboards & extra puzzles, but the base 4 are free so there’s not a huge incentive to spend money unless you want to.
Quizzle made the rounds a few weeks ago: https://tild.es/1c4y
https://guessthe.game/, where you guess videogames from screenshots and a few informations like the release date
You know you've played a game way too much when you get it right on the first guess even though the hint screenshot is ridiculously cropped, and only shows two rocky outcrops and a wind turbine (#572 spoiler). I'm pretty sure I even know exactly where in the game that screenshot was taken from too:
#572 spoiler
At Roland's Rest, right beside where you meet Vaughn.
Edit: Yep. Found a video at the location. Screengrab showing Vaughn with the same outcrops and turbine to his right: https://i.imgur.com/4X59BTK.png
This is great! I've gone through loads of the previous ones and there's a good mix of old and new, famous and more niche. Good recommendation.
Travle is a fun game, thanks! I didnt realize how knowledgeable i was about east africa until today and now i feel pretty good about myself after nailing it!
https://imois.in/games/travle/
Play this one alone. Whenever I play together with my girlfriend ("collaboratively") we argue
If you're into movies Framed is a great daily puzzle where you have to guess the film in six attempts.
I have a set of these that I do every morning, and a group chat with some family members that we all put our scores in. This includes: Wordle, Waffle, Connections (probably my favorite of the quick NY Times puzzles right now), and Globle (this is a really cool geography game which gives you hot/cold hints based on distance as you try to guess a country) which are all really fun and we all enjoy competing to see who scores the best every morning.
I have a couple of other games which I play just for myself when I feel like it, so I don't worry about streaks or anything like that. My current favorite is Metazooa which is a puzzle game where you are trying to guess a different animal every day. When you guess incorrectly, the game gives you the closest shared taxonomic group between the correct animal and your guess. So, for example, if the answer is "Human" and you guess "Platypus", the lowest shared taxon would be "Mammalia". If your guess was "Chimpanzee" it would be Homininae. As you guess more Taxa, it builds a tree of life out of all of your guesses. It also puts up a little sidebar of each taxonomic group with a snippet from Wikipedia for each one, since sometimes you can get some obscure groups. There's also a plant version of this game by the same developer called Metaflora but I rarely play that one because I know fuck all about plants, lol.
Connections is a blast. It's made its way into my morning "mini puzzle" routine and has claimed the top spot. Some days they're easy and others they are devious to the point where I don't even feel bad not cracking all 4 rows due to some gap in pop culture or historical reference knowledge.
Squaredle is a word search style game in the same vein as Wordle
I never got into wordle but I've been playing a lot of Gubbins recently which is sort of like scrabble but also not. It's only available via app but the app is free and doesn't spam you with ads. The art style is really nice too. You can play one game a day for free but it's only a few $currency to unlock unlimited play, which I did on about day three.
So far I have been playing it a couple of times a day, which is fairly rare for me when it comes to games.
Nerdle is always fun if you're into math!
https://nerdlegame.com/
I've been into nyt connections:
https://www.nytimes.com/games/connections
Thanks for recommending this one! I’ve been playing it the past few weeks since your recommendation and it’s a great way to start the day!
https://heardledecades.com/
Music based, lots of different ones too.
Not really puzzles though. You either know it or you don't lol.
Yeardle is the only one I still play: https://histordle.com/yeardle/
Wow, this one is so far out of my knowledge base. I'm always impressed with people who know history, since dates seep straight out of my own brain.
I consider myself a bit of a history buff, but that one was even difficult for me too. And IMO it doesn't help that the range indications you're given are pretty wide. E.g. The correct year for the one I got was 1976. I initially guessed 1980, which isn't that far off, but I still didn't manage to get the correct year by the end. I bounced too far in the wrong direction at first, then again in the other direction, and never quite hit the mark before I ran out of guesses. :/
On F-Droid there is a game called Gridle that is a grid of spaces you assemble six words in that is a lot of fun. The sev previously made Gurgle, a shameless Wordle clone.
And these are completely without ads!
Ooh, I’m going to add a bunch of these to my bookmark folder!
One I didn’t see listed yet is Tradle - guess the country based on their exports: https://games.oec.world/en/tradle/
My friends and I have been loving Coffee Golf. It’s a daily 5 hole golf course with simple score sharing like Wordle. Inspired by my family’s daily Wordle group text, I started a Coffee Golf group text with my friends and we’ve had a blast sharing our scores with each other, which holes have easy hole in one opportunities, comparing the routes we chose, and griping about the trees and water hazards.
My wife and I have been playing a series of wordle-like games related to movies for the last year.
Our favorites:
Framed - Guess the movie based on six stills
Actorle - Guess the actor based on an anonymized list of their movies
Moviedle - Guess the movie based on an anonymized cast list
Moviemoji - Guess the movie based on a series of emojis. [This one is our least favorite because the emojis are sometimes nonsense and sometimes, like today, they break. I have no idea how the emojis relate to what today's answer is.]
Box Office - Guess the top five movies at the box office on a given weekend, revealing clues about their cast, tagline, director and more.
Cinenerdle and Cinenerdle Reverse - Complete a puzzle that creates a set of 5 movies based on shared characteristics. In the reverse, you're given 20 movies and have to find the shared characteristics by rearranging the movies.
Cinerdle is a favorite of mine! Not too hard, but not too easy. I do love film trivia.
There's a good list of Wordle variants here: https://gist.github.com/maxspero/0a2f536b9561d829caf6bd994a34193d
Redactle is a lot of fun. The goal is to identify the title of a heavily redacted Wikipedia article by guessing words.
I don't think Chordle has been mentioned?
https://guitarapp.com/chords/chordle
I enjoy Quintumble alongside Wordle in the morning.
5x5 grid, where there is only one solution to make 5 horizontal words. Letters can only move vertically within their own column. The game gives you the first letter of each line. You have a score of 100 that counts down by 1 every minute, and you can spend 10 points to reveal a square if needed
You linked to this post
LFTL: https://quintumble.com/
Thanks, guess I need the full HTTPS part to make an external link. Otherwise it just links back to the page.
NP, but I don't think that's the reason. You can link to HTTP sites on Tildes using markdown. E.g. http://tildes.net But if the URL is malformed in some way, like missing the
:, it will break, and point back to Tildes. E.g. http//tildes.net. You already edited your comment though, so I can't see what you initially got wrong anymore. :PI simply did (hyperlink text) [www.quintumble.com]
So I didn't include the http(s)://, which as you stated it required.
I have this app that changes the answer in real-time. You have to guess the temperature in the cities provided. https://hotornot.guissmo.com/
If you like Pokémon... https://squirdle.fireblend.com/daily.html#
Hurdle is a great follow-up website. It's pretty much wordle but you get 4 puzzles. The solution for 1 becomes the first search for the next. After 4, the fifth puzzle uses the results from the first 4 as the first 4 guesses leaving you only 2 guesses for the last word. IMO more challenging/better than Wordle.
I was enjoying that...until I had two guesses to figure out one spot...and seven different letters could fit.
You can narrow it down but that has been real frustrating to me.
I sometimes have to train myself out of hard mode wordle play
Wordscapes is an app that gives you a set of letters and you are to make as many words as possible with them, and fill in a few slots to go to the next level. Any extra words you make will be extea points.
I used to like semantle - - you're trying to isolate a word by getting how similarly semantically your guess is to it.
That was f'n hard!!! And TBH, I don't quite understand how the semantic relationships work at the lower end of the similarity score, since the score going +/- by a few points every guess felt really misleading. It wasn't until I finally used a hint, which gave me a 30.73 (4/1000) similarity score word, that I finally got on track, could see the connections, and make more informed guesses. It still took me 21 more guesses to get the correct word after that though. :P
I like that you have infinite guesses, and I did have fun playing it. So thanks for sharing! :) I can definitely see myself going back to play that some more.
Oh, yeah. I've had over a hundred guesses more than once before finding a solution. It can be a really neat puzzle, but it's definitely hard enough to not always be solvable.
But yeah, I tend to start with some basic words that hit broad categories of words, like "person", "dog", "potato", "car", "study", etc.
Try Pimantle! It's Semantle with a 2D visualization of guesses, which makes it easier to see the different "branches" of word similarity.
https://semantle.pimanrul.es
Yeah, the visualization definitely felt like it helped. Being able to see which "branches" all my guesses aligned with made figuring out their commonalities, and then narrowing down the possibilities for the target word much more intuitive. Thanks for the recommendation!
Wow, that was very tough. I agree with cfabbro it's difficult to understand why two words might be more or less semantically related when the similarity scores are low and only differ by a few points, but it was still a really cool concept!
This is how I wound up.
Semantle #676 ✨
✅ 32 Guesses
Guess #16
🥈 986/1000🔝
💡0 hints
Washington Post has a newish game called Keyword. It's a bit like Hangman. You have 6 words arranged vertically, each missing one letter. Those 6 letters from another word.
Not sure if you need a subscription to access it. ETA: You do not. https://www.washingtonpost.com/games/keyword/
Another daily game I've played is Cell Tower (https://www.andrewt.net/puzzles/cell-tower/). It's like a find the word puzzle but the words can cover areas both left-right and up-down, but the word must read left to right and top to bottom. It's hard to describe.
https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/
You could try octordle. It's solving eight wordles all at once.
Very late to the party but here is one. It's a free daily word game with no ads!
https://www.letterdiamond.com/
Quordle! Like wordle, but x4!
I like it :)
It's not text, but Figure is a fun "clear the board" daily puzzle: https://figure.game/