Wordle

Not to be confused with Squirtle, Hurdle, Worlds, or Wordle (song).

This article is about the curious Wordle-like game. For the other game containing tiles and letters, see Scrabble.

Box art of Worlde the Game.

Wordle, also known as Worlde, is a mobile-gaming app and online web tool known for its curious cast of characters and colorful scenarios. Players take turns rolling a die, flipping cards, and a whole host of that sort of activities that is sure to tease the brain. You have a limited cone of vision unless you are a ghost. Wordle has a capacity for empathy.

Plot

Wordle was a pioneer in gaming, being counted among the first to tie gameplay and story together into one cohesive experience. However, the plot of Wordle is sadly nonsensical, as it is created personally by the user every time they play it. Many have tried to interpret the 1-6 word long story events, but there is no consensus.

Characters

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Blank tile

The blank tile (also known as black tile or white tile depending on game version) is the most frequently encountered character in the game. It is subdued and insightful, often providing the other tiles balance and friendship in uncertain times.

Yellow tile

The yellow tile is capricious and quirky, often providing the most unpredictability into any given scenario. The yellow tile is often the foil to the others, sometimes only undermining them for the sake of having an interesting day. This makes them quite the controversial figure in the fandom. Never trust a bitch who kins Yellow tile.

Cheese

In a unique game state, the player may have all yellow tiles. This is known as the cheese ending. The first time a player encounters cheese, they receive a coupon for 5% off Kraft Singles.

Green tile

The green tile is the game's mascot and main protagonist. Amiable and emotionally intelligent, it's no wonder why they're the most popular. The green tile is also generally the most viable character gameplay-wise, as they provide the most paths to victory when used correctly.

Blue tile

The existence of a blue tile has all but been debunked as a hoax. It is most probable that the blue tile was simply an edited picture, as their appearance in-game has yet to be verifiably replicated. Despite this, they have a cult following in the fandom, with fans mostly filling in the blanks as for what their personality could be.

Dog

After the est503.23 update, a Dog was added.

Gameplay

Players choose from a cache of 26 unique letters (a reference to the alphabet) to assign to each tile which is assigned to 5 unique spaces, ordered 1-5, which are confined to a unique row, at most of which there are but six. Touching the bottom row is an instant loss (X/6), unless the player happens to unlock all five green tiles at once, known as a Green Gabriel.

Once all 5 letters are chosen and the player triply confirms they wish to proceed, the letters are ran through a complex algorithm. While most players assume the assignment of gray, yellow, and green to each letter is purely random, there is actually a deeply complex set of rules they consistently follow. Discovering this process is considered Wordle's true gameplay hook and appeal.

Game modes

Wordle in standard play is much fun, but added modes are like extra salt seasoning.

In Hard Mode , players must use any indicated letters on subsequent guesses.

Words

Wordle is a game that, at its core, is about words. In fact, there are a near infinite amount of words in Wordle, but some words are more wordler than others. Here's why 👇🧵:

List of Wordle's "Word of the Day"

Every day there is a new word, and every word has a meaning. Starting from day 1, the words are:

1. MONEY
   • Considered the most powerful word of all, Wordle made a splash onto the scene with this one! MONEY is mostly the name of paper gold and coins, but with this event, now when people hear "money" they think "Waiter, one Wordle please!"
2. SHREW
   • Aaaand now it's awkward. Seriously, Joshua Wordler, creator of Wordle the Game? SHREW? The name of that animal is NOT something people expected. Points for being subversive, I guess.
3. FLOWER
   • A six letter word, FLOWER was too long for Wordle's code, causing major glitches and headaches for the Wordle crew. After the servers went down, Wordle was in the dark for 2 months before being booted back up.
4. NIGHT
   • Wordle's revival (known in the fandom as Wordle Revived) coincidentally fell on the date of 31 October—that dreaded Halloween. To commemorate the occasion, a similarly frightful word was chosen.
5. MOVIE
   • To promote the announcement of The Wordle Movie, this word was chosen as an easter egg to the cinephiles in the crowd.
6. WII-U
   • One of the easier guesses, WII-U (stylized as Wii U), was chosen to appeal to the reader's sense of honesty. However, due to the lack of a hyphen on the Wordle keyboard, this day was impossible to win, causing the maximum streak possible to be 4 (assuming the player got lucky and was able to enter FLOWER).
7. GREED
   • In a bad PR move, GREED was the 7th Wordle Word of the Day. This came shortly after Wordler's net worth passed 100 dollars. Fans were upset at the selling-out.

Following the seventh word, Wordle went on indefinite hiatus. After a journey of soul-searching, Joshua Wordler, creator and CEO of Wordle Games Ltd., sold his game and company and disappeared into the Alps. The ownership of Wordle changed hands several times before eventually falling under the trusted care of the Bureau of Rigid Adherence to Strict Anti-Tobacco Messaging. A government agency, Wordle then went into the public domain, where its usage in late night talk show bits skyrocketed.

List of optimal Wordle words

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These words are considered the best words to start off your game of Wordle.

• STARE
  • Contains a lot of common letters. Pretty good.
• CRANE
  • Considered to be the best word by YouTuber 3Blue1Brown except it's not because he changed his mind.
• RATIO
  • Contains three vowels. Is very useful if you know the word is going to be Radio. Ok.
• CRWTH
  • Somehow a valid guessable word. Even though it contains no vowels, players have gotten consistently good results by starting with it. Dubbed by the community as "the word of blessing".
• HAPPY
  • Boosts the users confidence stat. Encouraged starting word for players that are stressed or having a bad day.
• PIZZA
  • Tastes good, restores the players HP by 5 if used as a starting word.

List of banned Wordle words

Of course, not every word can be a Wordle. We would be here all day!

• FLOWER
  • Josh learned his lesson last time, officially BANNING this six-letter word from EVER appearing on the game again!
• PUNCH
  • This word was banned due to glorifying violence.
• GREEN
  • GREEN was banned due to glorifying greed.
• SMOKE
  • Due to a change in ownership, the previously unbanned word SMOKE became banned.
• GREET
  • Banned due to it not being the future yet.

Wordle, Green

Wordle, Green promotional sticker given out at conventions.

Following Josh Wordler's death in the Alps (mauled by Yeti in the Alps), Wordle was reacquired by his only son, Tim C. Wordley. Wordley was a business savant and hired an elite team of focus testers to bring Wordle into the modern era. What they came up with... was Wordle, Green.

Early life

Wordle, Green was first previewed at Space World 2021, where it received mix reviews from attendees. Most often criticized was its lack of words, which journalists called "a betrayal of Wordler's legacy."

Gameplay

Wordle, Green made a few adjustments to Wordle's standard gameplay format. First, it was no longer free-to-play, instead requiring a $10/month subscription for basic access, and $49.99/month subscription to unlock save data and reduced ads. Players would move brightly-colored cubes around a 5x5 grid. There appeared to be no ending programmed. The game suffered from high GPU usage, frequent crashes, and corrupted save data.

Death

Following Wordley's death (lightning), all of Wordle, Green's servers and beta builds were buried with him, per his request, effectively making both Wordley and the game lost media. Wordley's five color-coded offspring each received a secret Wordle word before adventuring across the lands.

Wordle 3D

This image was used in surveys and remains the only publicly available image of Wordle 3D to date.

An attempt for Wordle to transition to 3D was made. The main objective was seemingly to solve Wordle puzzles scattered about a map and collect tiles. However, adapting Wordle's iconic 2-dimensional gameplay to an open world proved difficult. Luckily, a fan created a prototype, recorded it, and got it trending on Reddit and even received a Golden Punchy. Wordle hired this man, but the cost of development quickly exceeded budget, as the game's Wordle tiles were composed of 500,000 polygons each. The game briefly saw hope for continuation after receiving a large grant by an esteemed author, artist, adventurer, and billionaire, but this quickly fell through after the donor realized it was not a sudoku-based grid game and thus ceased funding.

Many attempts have been made to find the builds of this cancelled project, but every time it is found, the file sizes are too large to host on any website. To compensate, an anonymous user instead decided to take screenshots of them playing through the game and upload them alongside text commentary onto a forum. This was the world's first "let's play," but the thread was quite dull, receiving only 2 replies from other users before being archived, so the format never really took off. The anonymous user was later banned for harassment.

Wordle KIDZ

In an attempt to pander to today's youth (and receive federal funding), a kid-friendly, educational version of Wordle, called Wordle KIDZ, was released via the Flash online browser engine and distributed to schools across Ohio. Unlike the main game of Wordle, Wordle KIDZ focused less on the words and more on numbers, shapes, colors, and science. This was purportedly to promote STEM interest in schoolchildren, particularly women.

The Wordle KIDZ website also featured short animations featuring the game's characters, as well as the two additional characters Joshle and Timle. The shorts would make up for the game's lack of words, as Joshle and Timle explore the fictional land of Wordle City, saving children in danger from the evil flower people, who hated words. Each short focused on six different five-letter words, with the final word typically tying in to the video's moral message.

Wordle BABIEZ

Wordle KIDZ was a crossover hit, garnering more attention than the original Wordle ever dreamt of achieving. To follow up, Wordle BABIEZ was made, focusing on an even younger pre-school demographic. Eschewing any educational focus at all, Wordle BABIEZ simply consisted of a single web page containing rotating CSS squares. The domain was later shut down due to a ransomware attack, making Wordle BABIEZ perhaps the most chilling addition to Wordle's lost media cabinet.

Unofficial variants and spin-offs

After Wordle became a viral sensation, many creators sought out to make their own variants of the game, some becoming much more successful than others. This section contains the more notable creations of the Wordle fanbase, split into various categories

Multi-Wordles

These Wordles have the player solve multiple words at once. Hardcore players weren't satisfied with only being able to solve one daily word, so these variants are for the fans who want to have fun solving more words.

• Dordle - Two Wordles at once. Known for being the most basic take on the Multi-Wordle subgenre.
• Quordle - Four Wordles at once. Slightly more hectic, but still lots of fun.
• Octordle - Eight Wordles at once. This is where things start to get pretty crazy. I mean, eight words? That's more words than the total number of days vanilla Wordle lasted before its hiatus
• Sedecordle - Sixteen Wordles at once. Formerly known as Septendecordle, this spinoff featured seventeen words to solve at once, but after the accident, developers had to crank the word count down by one.
• Kilordle - One-thousand Wordles at once. For the most dedicated Wordle addicts, this variant has a set of pre-set words that players must optimally solve in the fewest number of guesses possible.
• Polydle - For players who want a more customized experience. this variant lets players choose the amount of words they want to solve. Owners of other Multi-Wordles have tried suing Polydle, claiming that this variant is stealing the player bases of all the multi-Wordle variants. Has also been accused of leading children to madness.
• Quintordle (DEFUNCT) - Following the success of Polydle, no one plays Quintordle anymore.
• Singordle - One Wordle at once. For players who want a return to form.
• Quodle - Variant where you guess entire famous quotes (i.e. Patrick Star's "Trusting you is my decision. Proving me wrong is your choice").
• Squardle - Wordle, but with four times the squares.

Picture identification variants

"It wasn't until I played Framed that I realized she was holding a plate of Greet in this scene." -IGN's review of Framed

Instead of words, these variants rely on image identification.

• Framed - Version where players must guess the name of a movie with the screenshots given.
• Moviedle - Like Framed, this one focuses on movies, but instead this one plays the entire movie at a really fast speed. Some people use Moviedle as a means to pirate new movies daily.
• Guess The Game - Similar to Framed, but gaming.
• Worldle - For all the geography fans out there who love looking at country shapes.
• Flagle - For guessing flags. Category:Flags may be a good resource to help you out on your Flagle endeavors.

Musical Wordles

Also known as "heardles" by fans. These versions of Wordle tend to be simply musical.

• Heardle - In this variant you guess a song. Was bought by Spotify mid-way through 2022. During April 2023, Spotify had announced they'd be shutting down Heardle on May 5th.
• Heardle Rewritten - A fan-made revival of Heardle that started development shortly after the announcement that Heardle would be shutting down. Currently in closed playtesting.
• LOONA Heardle - Variant made to appeal to fans of K-Pop, such as User:Chubs.
• LUNA Heardle - Not to be confused with the above. This variant contains songs that User:LUNA likes.
• Breaking Bad Heardle - For fans of the Breaking Bad series, this variant features a wide catalogue of songs featured in the show.
• You Know This Heardle - This variant is a critically-acclaimed masterpiece, featuring only the best songs of all time. Players win a cash prize if they are able to get the song in only one guess.
• Wordle, The Musical - Unlike the previous entries, this is a proper musical rendition of the traditional Wordle game. For every game you win, the tiles will sing a beautiful song for you. This game also introduced the Wordle theme and leitmotif.

Nonsensical variants

In-game screenshot of Redactle

These variants are absolutely craaazy.

• Wordle, Red - This bootleg knockoff of Wordle, Green was launched shortly after its death. This version featured only red tiles, and was mysteriously discontinued on April 24, 2023. Fans speculate that this is due to red being a color associated with anger, which made for an unpleasant experience for many players.
• Redactle - A variant which might resonate well with fans of The Wiki Camp, this version presents a redacted version of a Wikipedia article which you must guess the words on until you figure out the title.
• Horsle - The answer to this one is always HORSE. ...Wait, really? That's it? Who would want to play this?
• Mahjong Handle - This variant was created to get your friend who only ever wants to play Mahjong to actually play other damn games for once.
• Squirdle - Same description as above, but for guessing Pokémon. Spoiler alert, the answer probably isn't Pikachu.
• Randle - Gacha variant of Wordle where you must randomly spin all of your guesses. Perfect version for fans of gambling.
• Absurdle - This variant clashes the Wordle format with the horror game genre by adding a twist where you must avoid guessing the word at all costs. Not recommended for people who are scared of words.
• Obscurdle - Variant which features twelve levels that each have it's own gimmick that you must figure out for yourself.
• Flappy Birdle - Wordle meets Flappy Bird in what might possibly be the least fun gaming experience you'll ever have. Don't play this one.
• Wordle (Ponsuke's Requiem Edition) - Less of a game and more of a static instance, it features Ponsuke's idea of what Wordle is.

Nerd variants

Variants made for nerds who like doing math and complex puzzles.

• Nerdle - Guess the math problem. The "Nerd variants" subgenre simply would not exist without Nerdle.
• Crosswordle - For Wordle fans who think the NYT crossword is too hard.
• Fillominordle - Wordle x Fillomino.
• Semantle - Semantic-themed variant. In this version, you must guess a word and it'll tell you how close it is in association or definition to the correct word. This one can be very hard and time consuming.
• Semantle Jr. - Semantle babies are born.
• Toddle - Not a variant for toddlers like the name suggests (see Wordle BABIEZ for that), but a Wheel of Fortune-esque version where you must guess a full phrase with only a few letters given.

Illegal variants

These variants are for the most badass rebels, as they pertain to activities that violate the law, such as killing.

• Sweardle - Also known as Bad Wordle, the answers to this Wordle are always swear words. For people with nasty potty mouths.
• Weedle - Not to be confused with the Pokémon of the same name, this variant features vocabulary used by stoners.
• Killdle - Wordle with stakes. If the player fails to solve the puzzle in six guesses, they die. Rumors say this spin-off was made by famous evil puppet Jigsaw.
• Stealdle - Every day, this version chooses one random Wordle variant to plagiarize from.

References in other media

As with all internet trends, other companies and brands have included references to Wordle in their products.

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  Gulpin, a Pokémon who bares a striking resemblance to the colored tiles seen in game.

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  The album vignette by Frums. Cover features an in-game screenshot of Wordle.

• LED traffic light.svg

  Traffic lights contain the modern Wordle color scheme, as well as providing a glimpse into the beta builds where "red" tiles were used.

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  McDonald's Sweet n' Sour Sauce, a Wiki Camp 2 competitor whose design was inspired by the Wordle, Green promotional sticker.

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  Daft Punk included a song titled Around the Wordle in the 25th anniversary re-release of their album Homework.

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  Wordle was featured prominently as the main antagonist in the episode "Marge vs. Bart Gets a X/6" in The Simpsons.

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  The colors of the trees and the grass in Battle for BFDI were colored based on the iconic Wordle tiles. In BFDI:TPOT, these colors were inverted.

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  Wiki Camp player User:Therobot47 played Wordle and posted their results in the Host x Damn seal Discord server.

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Trivia

• Wordle is canonically the final appearance of Paper Niko chronologically, as he dies at the end.
• McDonald's Sweet n' Sour Sauce is involved with Wordle, as they are linked on this page. Take that, QWillow.
• Alpharad played Wordle with JoSniffy on day 153 of Alpharad Gold, where they won with an impressive score of 2/6.

Cultural references

• It is likely that Wordle uses squares as its tiles as homage to other classic puzzle games such as chess and Minecraft.
• Green as the color of goodness likely stems from Wordle's roots in websites, where green was commonly used to represent go.
  • Likewise, yellow comes from here, too.
• Wordle allowing a maximum of six guesses is a reference to "666" the number associated with Baal and the occult, as the game is known to promote Satanic values.
• The game references the English language multiple times.

References

Talk:Wordle

hey mind if i pitch in on this page? i was gonna take this one but i saw it was already claimed - starlight (talk) 05:41, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

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 is that a yes? also please remember to sign your post using four tildes ~~~~ so The Divine Goddess can identify us - starlight (talk) 05:50, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

you still haven't written anything so i'm gonna go ahead and get started on writing this article before i go to bed, you're free to edit what i put down - starlight (talk) 07:39, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

what is wordle green?? please don't put made-up nonsense on this page, even if it's funny it could damage our score - starlight (talk) 13:53, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

i don't know what kind of world you're living in but if you're gonna put in all these absurd facts can you please include citations for them at least? you can do that with <ref> tags - starlight (talk) 18:06, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
 who is crystalforce?? - starlight (talk) 18:12, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

i give up on trying to communicate with you, and it's too late for me to change articles. i'm just gonna clean up anything that's too destructive. - starlight (talk) 03:53, 7 April 2023 (UTC)