Games Like Wordle
Quick Answer
The closest games to Wordle are Quordle, Letter Quest: Remastered, Typoman, Scribblenauts Unlimited and Baba Is You. Below are 10 picks with the reason for each — what carries over from Wordle, and what does not.
What Made Wordle Work
Wordle is three small ideas stacked together: one puzzle a day that everyone shares, five letters and six guesses that turn vocabulary into deduction, and a grid of coloured squares you can post without spoiling anything. Most people who search for something like it want one of those three back — the daily habit, the letter logic, or the clean 'got it' moment — so the list below is sorted by which one each game keeps.
Wordle was made by Josh Wardle and went public on the web in October 2021; The New York Times bought it in January 2022 and still publishes one puzzle a day. It runs in any browser, needs no account, and is free.
10 Games Like Wordle
1.Quordle(2022)
Your Wordle guesses now land on four hidden words at once, so every word has to earn its place.
Why it fits: Freddie Meyer's 2022 browser game keeps Wordle's five-letter rules and colour feedback, with nine guesses for four words.
Where to play it: Web browser
Games like this →2.Letter Quest: Remastered(2015)
A fantasy dungeon crawl where every attack is a word you spell from a tile grid.
Why it fits: Bacon Bandit Games, 2015 on PC: longer and rarer words deal more damage, so a big vocabulary is your weapon.
Where to play it: PC, Switch, PS4, Xbox One
More about this game →3.Typoman(2015)
You change the level by rearranging the letters you find in it.
Why it fits: Brainseed Factory, 2015 on Wii U: words like OPEN or RAIN take effect when you spell them, a puzzle platformer about letters.
Where to play it: PC, Switch, PS4, Xbox One
More about this game →4.Scribblenauts Unlimited(2012)
Type a noun and it appears — the right word solves the puzzle.
Why it fits: 5th Cell, 2012 on Wii U, 3DS and PC: every problem is solved by naming an object, adjectives included.
Where to play it: PC, Switch
More about this game →5.Baba Is You(2019)
The rules are words sitting in the level, and you rewrite them by pushing them.
Why it fits: Arvi Teikari (Hempuli), 2019 on PC and Switch: the purest 'aha' logic on this list.
Where to play it: PC, Switch, iOS, Android
More about this game →6.Hexcells(2014)
Number clues reveal a hidden pattern with no guessing, the same quiet deduction as a clean solve.
Why it fits: Matthew Brown, 2014 on PC: every board can be solved by logic alone, and a level takes minutes.
Where to play it: PC
More about this game →7.Picross Touch(2016)
One picture puzzle with your coffee, sized like a daily Wordle.
Why it fits: Jon Gallant, 2016 on PC: nonogram grids where row and column numbers draw a hidden picture.
Where to play it: PC
More about this game →8.Sudoku(1979)
The original one-a-day newspaper puzzle, free everywhere.
Why it fits: Printed as 'Number Place' in Dell puzzle magazines in 1979: nine digits and pure elimination.
Where to play it: Web, every phone, newspapers
More about this game →9.2048(2014)
Five minutes, one board, and a score that makes you go again.
Why it fits: Gabriele Cirulli, 2014 in the browser: slide tiles to merge numbers, free and with no account.
Where to play it: Web, iOS, Android
More about this game →10.Tetris 99(2019)
Ninety-nine people play the same game at the same moment — the shared-puzzle feeling, live.
Why it fits: Arika and Nintendo, 2019 on Switch: battle-royale Tetris for Nintendo Switch Online members.
Where to play it: Switch (Nintendo Switch Online)
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Where to Start
If you want more of exactly the same thing, open Quordle. If the daily ritual matters more than the words, keep a Hexcells or Picross Touch board for the morning. If you want to spend an evening rather than five minutes, Baba Is You is the one to buy.
How We Picked These Games
Every pick keeps at least one of Wordle's three hooks: a puzzle sized for a coffee break, letters or words as the thing you reason with, or pure deduction where a wrong guess still teaches you something. Games built on timers, luck or endless grinding were left out.
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Games Like Wordle Compared
Year is each game's first release anywhere, on the platform in the next column. "Play it now" is where it can be bought or played today.
| Game | Year | First released on | Play it now | Closest to Wordle in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quordle | 2022 | Web | Web browser | Same five-letter rules, four words at once |
| Letter Quest: Remastered | 2015 | PC | PC, Switch, PS4, Xbox One | Vocabulary as the way you win |
| Typoman | 2015 | Wii U | PC, Switch, PS4, Xbox One | Letters you rearrange to solve puzzles |
| Scribblenauts Unlimited | 2012 | Wii U, 3DS, PC | PC, Switch | The right word is the answer |
| Baba Is You | 2019 | PC, Switch | PC, Switch, iOS, Android | Logic built from words on the board |
| Hexcells | 2014 | PC | PC | Deduction with no guessing |
| Picross Touch | 2016 | PC | PC | A small daily logic grid |
| Sudoku | 1979 | Puzzle magazines | Web, every phone, newspapers | The daily paper-puzzle habit |
| 2048 | 2014 | Web | Web, iOS, Android | Short, free, one more go |
| Tetris 99 | 2019 | Switch | Switch (Nintendo Switch Online) | Everyone plays the same game at once |
Which One to Play, by What You Liked
If you liked Wordle for the letters and the guessing, try Quordle and Letter Quest: Remastered. Quordle is the same game multiplied; Letter Quest turns your vocabulary into an RPG character sheet.
If you liked Wordle for the one-puzzle-a-day ritual, try Hexcells, Picross Touch and Sudoku. Small boards that are finished before your tea goes cold, and none of them punish a slow solve.
If you liked Wordle for the moment the answer clicks, try Baba Is You, Typoman and Scribblenauts Unlimited. All three make the answer a word or a rule you have to see, rather than a reflex you have to train.
If you liked Wordle for comparing results with friends, try Tetris 99 and 2048. Tetris 99 puts you in the same game as everyone else; 2048 gives you a single number to beat.
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