SWordle

SWordle is a daily word game for Star Wars fans, made by AurebeshFiles, who also runs the starwars.guide site. Its games are numbered from 29 January 2022. It follows the Wordle formula closely, but the answer is always a word from the Star Wars universe: a character, a planet, a ship, a species, a droid or a piece of slang from the films and series.

You type five-character guesses and get the usual feedback. A green tile means the letter is in the right place, yellow means it is in the word but somewhere else, and grey means it is not in the word at all. You have six tries. By default the game carries your green letters down into the next row, so you only type the letters around them; this can be switched off in the settings.

The twist is the vocabulary. The game accepts nearly 30,000 Star Wars words, and the keyboard has the digits and a dash so that droid names and codes such as R2-D2 can be entered. Plurals count too. If you are stuck after your third try, a hint button lights up in the top left corner, and the stats screen counts how many hints you have used.

The settings include a colour-blind mode, a plain font and an option to show the letters in Aurebesh, the Star Wars alphabet. Your statistics, streak and guess distribution are kept in the browser and can be exported and imported to move them to another device. When you finish, the game links the winning word to a page on starwars.guide that explains what it is, so a missed answer can still teach you something about the saga.

It suits Star Wars fans who already play Wordle and want a daily test of how deep their knowledge of the films, shows and books goes. The game is free and needs no account; it shows Google ads.