Games like Wordle: daily word puzzles to play next

The closest relatives keep the rules and change the scale. Dordle, Quordle and Octordle ask you to solve two, four or eight words at once with a shared set of guesses, so every guess is a trade-off between boards; Sedecordle and Duotrigordle push the same idea to sixteen and thirty-two. They suit players who find Wordle over too quickly.

A second group changes the information you get back. Alphalock gives you only counts, like the board game Mastermind, rather than coloured tiles. Betweenle tells you whether the answer comes before or after each guess in the dictionary. Antiwordle turns the goal upside down and asks you to avoid the answer for as long as you can. Phrazle stretches the colours across a whole phrase, and Crosswordle.org fits small Wordles into a clueless crossword.

A third group keeps the daily word but changes the language or subject: Le Mot and Sutom in French, Wordle auf Deutsch, Parole in Italian, Termo in Portuguese, La Palabra del Día in Spanish, Woordle in Dutch, Kotonoha Tango in Japanese, or themed lists such as Phoodle for food words and Football Wordle for players' names.

If what you like is the daily ritual more than the grid, the New York Times games sit next to Wordle for a reason: Connections, Strands and Spelling Bee are different puzzles that take a few minutes each. Semantle and Contexto ask you to find a word by meaning rather than spelling, and Waffle asks you to swap letters back into place. Start with Quordle if you want more Wordle, Connections if you want something different, and Contexto if you want a puzzle that makes you think about words in a new way.