Mardle

Mardle swaps letters for words. The day's answer is the title of a game from the Mario series or its spin-offs, three words long on the board, and the keyboard holds the words those titles are made of: Super, Mario, World, Land, Kart, Party, Wario, Donkey, Kong, Dr., DS, Advance, Stealth and numbers such as 64, 3, 7 and 8.

You put together a title and press Enter. A word in the right place turns green, a word that is in the title but elsewhere turns yellow, and a word that is not in it at all turns grey. The board has six rows, so you get six guesses, though the help text still speaks of three tries. A statistics panel shows your streak and how your guesses are spread, and you can copy your result to share it.

The answer is picked by counting days from 1 January 2022, so everyone gets the same title on the same date, and it changes at midnight in your own time zone. The list holds 26 titles and runs through them in order, so a regular player meets the same answers again about once a month. Settings offer a hard mode, a dark mode and a high-contrast mode.

Mardle is a fan-made game built on the open-source react-wordle code. It plays free in the browser on a phone or a computer, with no account and no ads. It suits Mario fans who want a quick daily guess rather than a long quiz.