Timesless Wordle
November 4, 2024 3:41 PM   Subscribe

The New York Times Tech Guild is on strike. They have stated that Games and Cooking are behind the picket line, and have asked people to stop using those until the strike is resolved. (Regular news coverage is not behind the picket line.) What game can my family Wordle text message group substitute for Wordle during this interregnum. We are all agreed we do not want to cross the picket line.
posted by Winnie the Proust to Sports, Hobbies, & Recreation (35 answers total) 26 users marked this as a favorite
 
hellowordle.net
posted by Dolley at 3:42 PM on November 4


I like quordle, which is four wordle-type games played simultaneously.
posted by mskyle at 3:45 PM on November 4 [2 favorites]


Yep, quordle is great, too.
posted by Dolley at 4:01 PM on November 4


Britannica just expanded their Octordle (solve 8 wordles at once) options: daily options for "chill," "daily" (medium), and "extreme," plus "practice."
posted by Pandora Kouti at 4:07 PM on November 4 [4 favorites]




The original, pre-NYT Wordle is still available via the internet archive.
posted by /\/\/\/ at 4:37 PM on November 4 [1 favorite]


If you're up for something a bit different, allow me to introduce you to Murdle.
posted by wormtales at 4:40 PM on November 4


Eightile is a fun one (unscrambling 5 words in sequence - each one letter longer than the last and all built on a single 3-letter word).

Waffle is good too (grid of unscrambling).
posted by snaw at 4:45 PM on November 4 [2 favorites]


Canuckle
posted by Enid Lareg at 4:53 PM on November 4


I really enjoy Squaredle and do it every day but it takes a bit longer (and, alas, doesn't give you an emoji grid).
posted by babelfish at 5:13 PM on November 4 [3 favorites]


worldle (a geography game)

Duotrigordle, which is a whole lot of wordle all at once.
posted by gingerbeer at 5:21 PM on November 4 [5 favorites]


Puzzmo has a fun variety of daily games. It doesn't have a game quite like Wordle, but Typeshift is an interesting word-based puzzle. (Your daily score is based on a combination of how quickly you finish and the number of words you use to finish — fewer is better.)
posted by lisa g at 5:34 PM on November 4 [1 favorite]


Timeguessr
Redactle

Both these do require more of a time investment.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 5:51 PM on November 4 [2 favorites]


I really enjoyed Absurdle: like Wordle but it hates you.
(discovered here previously, made by mefi's own qntm)

Thank you for this Ask, which is the first I've heard of the strike. Farewell to my 175-day NYT Crossword streak, darnit!

(And, sorry, with more thought: Absurdle is not really suitable for group play. However the thanks stand. )
posted by hovey at 6:04 PM on November 4 [1 favorite]


For North American bird nerds: Birdie
posted by mcstayinskool at 6:40 PM on November 4 [1 favorite]


Some of my recent favorites include 23Words, Clickword, WordSlicer, and Keyword.
posted by criticalyeast at 6:53 PM on November 4


I play games on Puzzmo and also picked up mefi's own gisnep a few months back.
posted by phunniemee at 6:53 PM on November 4 [3 favorites]


Alphaguess!! Fun because (as far as I know) there's no fail state, so instead you can compete with each other either on # of guesses or time, or both.
posted by saladin at 7:06 PM on November 4


Minute Cryptic
posted by nicwolff at 7:21 PM on November 4 [1 favorite]


Worgle: six-letter words. British spellings.
posted by ManyLeggedCreature at 1:41 AM on November 5


Mod note: [Thanks for the Wordle alternative suggestions, everyone! We've added this to the sidebar and Best Of blog!]
posted by taz (staff) at 3:23 AM on November 5 [2 favorites]


Absurdle is not really suitable for group play. However the thanks stand.

Absurdle's good for groups as long as everyone uses the same start word. I've normally done it with the start word from that day's Wordle, but obviously that's not appropriate. Taking it in turns for a family group would work great.

Or if qntm's reading, an Absurdle of the day would be fantastic.
posted by ambrosen at 4:05 AM on November 5 [1 favorite]


Seconding Gisnep and adding Word Solitaire. I do both of these daily and find that doing so has entirely supplanted my motivation to go Wordling.

Incidentally, today's 48 seconds for Gisnep was a personal best :-)
posted by flabdablet at 5:14 AM on November 5 [1 favorite]


Waffle scratches the itch for me. There is an app if you prefer.
posted by DarlingBri at 5:27 AM on November 5 [1 favorite]


Love love love gisnep!!!
posted by wyzewoman at 5:46 AM on November 5


Wordy is a wordle dupe!
posted by quadrilaterals at 7:12 AM on November 5 [1 favorite]


There are several Wordle variations named Wurdle (with a "u"), but this one is a clone of the original.
posted by Boxenmacher at 7:44 AM on November 5


GUBBINS!
posted by dobi at 12:42 PM on November 5


I like wordly.org and they even have a kids version!
posted by nadise at 1:35 PM on November 5 [1 favorite]


Guess my word is so simple and so great.
posted by Don Pepino at 5:12 AM on November 6 [1 favorite]


Puzzle Page is a mobile app that has one Wordy puzzle per day and some others in a back catalog. I know the daily one is free, you might have to subscribe to get the catalog ones. $30 a year is not bad for the whole app. You would also want to verify that they use the same word is the iOS and Android versions. I only play with one other person, and we are both iOS. It has many other puzzle games.
posted by soelo at 10:07 AM on November 6


First time I heard this and thank you. Can anyone help with a source of other games - especially with the daily crossword? Also, what do we think is a good way to follow the course of the Tech Guild labor dispute?
posted by wartsc at 7:15 AM on November 7




I wrote what I would like to claim is the most deranged Wordle clone in the form of Primel in which one has to guess a 5 digit prime number. Despite being "not fun" it still got a DMCA take-down notice from NYT.
posted by dill at 1:57 AM on November 10


Response by poster: The Times Tech Guild has ended the strike. Thank you for all of the game suggestions! I will continue to play many of them, even if I do (as I suspect I will) return to Wordle and Spelling Bee.
posted by Winnie the Proust at 1:51 PM on November 17 [1 favorite]


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