October 8, 2025: We've added a few more word puzzles to the mix, and a section for games that are like Wordle but aren't actually word puzzles (they might use numbers, pictures or something else) if you're looking for a change of pace.
Playing games like Wordle is a great way to satisfy your daily puzzle cravings, so if you're looking for more daily word puzzles to tease your brain and share with friends, you've come to the right place.
Luckily, once you start looking, there are a surprising number of games that offer the same satisfaction as Wordle but in a different format to shake up your daily routine.
Thanks to the popularity of the formula curated by Wordle, there's no shortage of daily puzzle games that use letters, numbers, and even pictures. Not every game like Wordle is worth your time, but among the hundreds that have appeared since the original, there are some real gems you should check out.
The best daily word puzzles
Woodle
What is it? Wordle but with more guesses, but still way harder
Frequency: Daily
Woodle is like Wordle: you're trying to guess a five-letter word. But each guess you make will only tell you how many letters you got correctly and incorrectly: it just won't tell you which. It's like playing Wordle but you've got to keep track of everything in your head. You can click letters to turn them green, yellow, or red, which helps a bit, but this is still much more of a head-scratcher than Wordle is. Good luck!
Numbword
What is it? Wordle but with numbers as well as letters
Frequency: Daily
Want a little bit of math to go with your word puzzle? In Numbword, you're guessing a five-letter word, and each letter has a numerical value that add up to a word score. You know the sum of the daily word, which will help with your guesses, but you'll only know if a letter you guessed is correct, not where it goes in the secret word. It's a fun mix of addition and anagrams, and the quicker you get the answer, the higher you score.
Quordle
What is it? Wordle, but four words at a time
Frequency: Daily
Wordle gives you six tries to guess a single word, but Quordle gives you nine tries to guess four words. Each guess you make appears in all four puzzles, so focusing on a single word means you're still burning through your guesses in the other puzzles. It's tricky, but if you love Wordle this gives you a bigger and more challenging dose of the same daily gameplay. There are also easy and hard modes, and winning a game in any mode gives you access to an additional puzzle once per week.
Quordle is now hosted by Merriam-Webster, which also has an excellent Spelling Bee-type game called Blossom, and other fun free daily games.
Waffle
What is it? Wordle, but with six words plus drag-and-drop
Frequency: Daily
Waffle gives you a grid with all the letters already in it, though most are in the wrong place. You're trying to solve six different words: three across and three down. And rather than typing letters, you drag-and-drop them. It's sort of like you're putting together a tiny crossword puzzle with a pool of letters. You have a total of 15 swaps, but every Waffle can be solved in just 10.
Smartle
What is it? Wordle, but a grid of five words
Frequency: Daily
In Smartle, a five-by-five grid of scrambled letters awaits you each day: just drag and drop them until you've got five words horizontally. The trick is, you've got to use the letters you've been given, so even if you breeze your way through four words, you might not have the letters to create that fifth valid word. Tricky!
Squareword
What is it? Wordle, but a 5x5 square
Frequency: Daily
With 15 guesses you'll need to solve for 10 words, which seems like a tall order. But Squareword's words run both across and down, so each letter you place correctly will appear in multiple words. There's another huge help: a column on the right shows the letters you've guessed that were in the wrong spot, which'll help you narrow down your guesses. It takes a few tries but once you're thinking in both directions, Squareword becomes an enjoyable daily challenge.
More games like Wordle
Revealed
What is it? Wordle, but Wikipedia
Frequency: Daily
Revealed is Britannica's more relaxed take on Redactle: a daily game where you're presented with a heavily redacted Wikipedia-style page. Click on blanks to reveal words and slowly reveal letters that make up the answer. You can guess the page topic at any point, and it's pretty satisfying to win a round without using more than one or two clues.
Nerdle
What is it? Wordle, but it's math
Frequency: Daily
Forget words and letters: Nerdle is for number lovers. You're trying to guess a new calculation each day, using numbers and operations. Wordle still rules apply: Any number or operation that appears in the correct place is green, magenta means it's in the puzzle but in the wrong spot, and black if it doesn't appear at all. Also, as with Wordle, it's not just about doing math but using clues. For instance, the = appearing in the 7th slot means the answer is only a single digit, which is a big help narrowing the answer down. I am truly rotten at math but cracking a calculation in Nerdle is still pretty darn satisfying.
Scrandle
What is it? Wordle, but with upsetting food
Frequency: Once a day, plus archives
"Scran" is slang for food, and "Footy Scran" is slang for food you get at a football match. As anyone who has ever eaten at a stadium knows, the food is often questionable if not downright unrecognizable—but who cares when you're drunk and screaming at multi-millionaires who aren't kicking the ball properly?
In Scrandle you're presented with a daily 10-question quiz where you're shown two handfuls of stadium "food" and must correctly guess which one other scran-fans have judged to be marginally superior. It's Hot Or Not but for hideous nachos, upsetting hot dogs, and soggy fries. It's trickier than you think and often grosser than you might imagine.
Worldle
What is it? Wordle, but with countries
Frequency: Once a day
In Worldle you're presented with the shape of a country, and guess which one it is. Each guess you make tells you how close your guess is to the answer in kilometers and what direction the answer is in from the country you guessed, which will hopefully narrow down your next guess. It makes a great refresher course on country shapes, names, and locations for those of us who haven't been to geography class in a couple decades, and there's a nice autocomplete feature, too, meaning you don't need to know how to perfectly spell Liechtenstein to guess it.
Framed
What is it? Wordle, but for movies
Frequency: Daily
Starting with a single frame from a movie, guess which film it is. If you're wrong, you get another frame, and you have six guesses total. Framed is Wordle but for film buffs—and refreshingly it's one of the rare Wordle-like games that bucks the trend of adding 'le' somewhere in its name. An autocomplete feature means as long as you know some of the film's title you can still win.
Dungleon
What is it? Wordle, but a dungeon crawler
Frequency: Daily
No letters here, just a blank grid representing a dungeon. What's in the dungeon? Some combination of heroes, monsters, and treasure, represented by charming little icons you click to select instead of letters. At first it seems like just a guessing game, but there are some stated rules (each dungeon has at least one hero and one monster) and a number of secret rules you'll learn over weeks of play. Throw in some magic spells and Dungleon becomes great daily puzzle. There's also daily challenge mode where you must solve three dungeons but with fewer guesses each time.
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