Murdle is a high-speed game of Clue that tortures your brain in the most enjoyable way. " ― Mindy Quigley, author of Six Feet Deep Dish and Ashes to Ashes, Crust to Crust

Other Wordle alternatives to try are the ultra-stressful (but very good) Squabble and the soccer-themed, Who Are Ya?. We also like the geography-based Wordle clone Worldle, the Star Wars-themed SWordle and the math-based Mathler. There's just one puzzle a day, and everyone completes the same one. It resets at midnight each day. You'll find more information about the game in our What is Wordle? article. Wordle AlternativesIf you delve into the HTML code in Wordle, you can see every answer and the game's starting date, and by this measure the first game was on June 19, 2021. The first puzzle — #0, not #1 — was CIGAR. On Wordle's first birthday, we came up with a list of 5 ways it needsd to improve to keep us playing for the foreseeable future. What are the Wordle rules? Every word you enter must be in the word list. There are more than 10,000 words in this list, but only 2,309 (at the time of writing) are answers to a specific puzzle Wordle isn't massively different to plenty of word games available on the Apple App Store or Google Play Store, but it displays a refreshing attitude to you, your time and your money.

Secondly, think about combinations, especially at the start and end. Some options are far more common than others — for instance, SH, ST, CR and CH all feature frequently. After a few moments of staring at it, I realized what the one possible remaining answer was. I typed in TAWNY and won the game in three moves.

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As regular readers will know, after playing the five most common letters, I aim to include as many from positions 6-10 as possible in my second answer. If you're eager for another game to pass the time while you wait, we've put together a list of the best Wordle alternatives. One of the big drivers behind Wordle's success is that social media sharing is encouraged, but in a way that doesn't spoil the surprise for anyone who hasn't played that day's puzzle. Your challenge is to guess a five-letter word in six attempts. Each time you guess, you're told which of your chosen letters are in the target word, and whether they are in the right place. And that's it. The best tip I can give is to use one of the best Wordle start words. I can't stress this enough — it makes a massive difference.

Will I still be playing Wordle this time next year? Maybe not — but I've certainly not had my fill yet. Can you cheat at Wordle? And correct, in 4/6 moves. Which is about average, it seems. Why does Wordle sometimes have two answers? Wordle doesn't have many features as such, but there is a dark mode — and a hard mode. Hard mode forces you to play any correct letters on subsequent guesses — so if you have a green S at the start, you'd have to keep playing S at the start from then on. And if you have a yellow R in the word, all subsequent guesses would have to include R somewhere too.

Wordle was created by developer Josh Wardle, a guy who you may have come across before; he was also the man behind the Reddit projects The Buttonand Place, each of which were similarly brilliant — and brilliantly simple — experiments in internet behavior. In fact, that's another refreshing thing about it. Binge-culture is very real, and like most people I will regularly finish a Netflix show, or a game, in long bursts over a day or two, mostly when I should be asleep. I can't do that with Wordle: one puzzle a day is so little, but it means the game is always fresh. Without one, you'll be scrabbling around in the dark trying (and possibly failing) to find the right five letters (or possibly fewer) out of the 26 possibles. But clever people (not me) have done the math and identified the best start words based on both frequency in English and frequency among Wordle answers. So use them! World of Books also buys directly from charities, taking the titles they don’t want or haven’t got space for. So as well as preventing the destruction of perfectly good books, our customers are helping to support good causes too. Cheap Books, Fantastic Choice