Canuckle

Canuckle follows the Wordle routine with a Canadian twist. There is one hidden five-letter word a day, the same for everyone, and you have six guesses. Every guess must be a valid five-letter word. After each one the tiles change colour: red for a letter in the right spot, in place of Wordle's green, yellow for a letter that is in the word but elsewhere, and grey for a letter that is not in it.

The twist is in the answers. Each one is related to Canada in some way, so it may be a place, a bit of Canadian slang or another word with a Canadian link. Once you finish, win or lose, the game shows a short fun fact explaining the Canadian link, which turns the daily guess into a small piece of trivia.

The daily puzzles are numbered and have run since February 2022. The menu holds an archive calendar where any past day can be played, a practice mode with random words, and Canuckle+, a weekly set of six- and seven-letter words. Statistics track your current and longest streak, there is a hard mode, and a result can be shared. No account is needed; the game offers to link an email only to recover your progress. The same site runs Canoku, a daily sudoku with Canadian emojis.

The official game lives at canucklegame.ca, and its built code is published on GitHub. Several other sites have copied the name, so check the address if you want the original. The site credits CIRA, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, with a powered by logo, and it shows display ads around the board on a desktop.

Canuckle suits Wordle players who want a change of word list, and anyone who enjoys Canadian trivia.