Gridle
Rate itWordle with shapes: guess how polyominoes pack a 4x4 grid in six tries.
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Gridle swaps Wordle's words for shapes. The daily answer is a packing of a 4x4 grid with polyomino pieces, and each of your six guesses must itself be a valid packing. After each guess, the tiles change colour to show how close you were.
About Gridle
Gridle is a small browser game by Notan on itch.io, made in Unity in 2022 and inspired by Wordle and Nerdle. Instead of a five-letter word, the hidden answer is a way of dividing a 4x4 grid into polyomino pieces, shapes made of squares joined edge to edge. You build each guess by placing pieces from a palette of shapes, rotating and flipping them as needed, until the grid is filled, then press Go.
The colours on your guess tell you how close you are to the hidden packing, and you have six tries. A colour-blind mode was added in March 2022, and there is a share button for your result. A Show answer button lets you give up on a hard day. The game runs in the browser on a desktop and fits a phone screen too, with no account needed.
All possible solutions are precomputed into a list, and each day's puzzle is picked from it with a numbered daily seed, so everyone gets the same one. The developer described this in a September 2026 update that fixed a rare bug in the random index, so the game is still looked after. It suits Wordle fans who enjoy spatial thinking and tangram-style shapes.
How to play Gridle
- Choose pieces from the palette and place them on the 4x4 grid; rotate or flip them as needed.
- Fill the whole grid to make a valid packing.
- Press Go to submit your guess.
- Read the tile colours to see how close your packing is to the answer.
- Find the hidden packing within six tries and share your result.
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Tips
- Start with a guess that uses several different shapes to learn which ones are in the answer.
- Watch the corners; pieces there have fewer possible positions.
- Keep track of which shapes have been ruled out.
- Turn on colour-blind mode if the feedback colours are hard to read.
Questions
Is it the same puzzle for everyone?
Yes. The developer explains that a daily seed picks the day's solution from a fixed list of all possible packings.
How many tries do I get?
Six.
Does every guess have to be valid?
Yes, each guess must be a complete polyomino packing of the 4x4 grid.
What time does a new Gridle come out?
The game does not say. The puzzle number at the bottom right of the board moves on once a day.
Does Gridle have ads?
No. It is a free game on itch.io with no ads and no sign-up.
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