Games like Wordle for after today's grid, with Twordle first

The best games like Wordle keep the daily guess-and-check habit and change one part of it. Start with Twordle on TechTwitter IO, a five-letter puzzle whose answer comes out of that morning's tech news, then work down a list of seven more that add boards, numbers, maps or films.

Every pick below runs in a web browser, so there is nothing to install. We checked each one on its own page in November 2026.

How we picked

Three rules. The game had to keep the core loop of guess, read the feedback, guess again. It had to give you a fresh puzzle on a schedule or let you replay. And it had to change something real, not just the colours.

The list

1. Twordle, in TechTwitter IO's Fun & Games page

TechTwitter IO is a free satirical daily paper about tech Twitter, and Twordle is the first game in its puzzle section. The setup will feel familiar: six rows, five letters, and each letter marked as right, misplaced or absent. The difference is the hint line above the grid, which points at one of the day's stories. On 3 November it read "What the $115 billion deal is about", so a reader who skimmed the front page had a head start.

When the game ends, a Copy result button puts a "Twordle date n/6" grid on your clipboard for the group chat. If you skip a day, open the Morgue, pick a date, and that back issue still has its own Twordle to play. The same page also carries Connections, Jumble, Who Tweeted It? and Real or Satire?, which makes it the strongest single bookmark on this list.

2. Quordle

Merriam-Webster's Quordle hands you four words to solve at the same time and nine guesses to cover all of them. A strong opener matters more here, because a wasted guess costs you on four boards.

3. Octordle

Britannica runs Octordle, which doubles that again: eight words, thirteen guesses, a new set each day.

4. Dordle

A small itch.io game by zaratustra that its maker sums up as "wordle plus wordle". It is a gentler step up than Quordle if you have never played two boards at once.

5. Absurdle

Its creator, qntm, calls it an adversarial version of Wordle. Expect the game to work against you, and treat a short solve as a real win.

6. Nerdle

Same feedback idea, but the answer is a maths equation. You get six tries, and the site lists more than twenty other free number games.

7. Worldle

You see the outline of a country and guess which one it is. Wrong answers come back with a distance and a direction, and the site says guesses are unlimited.

8. Framed

A daily film quiz: identify the movie from up to six frames. It keeps an archive for days you missed.

Quick comparison

When the original is still the right call

If you want plain dictionary words and nothing to read first, the New York Times' Wordle is still the cleaner daily game: six chances at a five-letter word, one new puzzle a day, and a Hard Mode in settings.

A note on the paper around Twordle

The puzzles are straight puzzles, but the newspaper is satire. Its footer says that unless a post links to its source, the people, posts and quotes are parody or invented. Read the headlines for the jokes, and play the grid for the hint.