Best Games Like Wordle
Looking for games similar to Wordle? The best alternative depends on what you want more of: harder puzzles, more words at once, a different kind of guessing, or other people to play against. Here is a fair look at the popular options, including our own, WordWarz, which is the one built for multiplayer.
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| Game | Best for | Play style | Main mechanic |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordWarz | Competitive multiplayer | Live rooms of 2–20 players | Race to guess the same five-letter word |
| Quordle | Playing several words at once | Solo | Four Wordle boards solved together |
| Octordle | A long, hard session | Solo | Eight Wordle boards solved together |
| Absurdle | A harder puzzle | Solo | An opponent that dodges your guesses |
| Contexto | Guessing by meaning | Solo | Words ranked by similarity to the secret word |
| Connections | Categorising words | Solo | Sort 16 words into four hidden groups |
Best for multiplayer: WordWarz
WordWarz keeps the familiar five-letter, green-and-gold guessing and puts other players on the same word at the same time. Rooms hold 2 to 20 players, matches come in Classic, Blitz and Elimination modes, and scores reward both fewer guesses and speed. It runs in a browser and as an iPhone, iPad and Android app. It is particularly suited to players who enjoy word guessing but want direct multiplayer competition rather than playing separately. See how WordWarz multiplayer works or the full rules.
Best for playing multiple words at once: Quordle and Octordle
Quordle gives you four Wordle boards that you solve simultaneously, with every guess applied to all of them and a larger pool of guesses to share between boards. Octordle takes the idea to eight boards. Both are for people who finish the daily Wordle quickly and want a longer challenge. They are solo games.
Best for difficult puzzles: Absurdle
Absurdle is an adversarial take on Wordle. Rather than fixing the answer in advance, it keeps as many possible words open as it can and picks the response that gives you the least information, so you have to narrow the field with careful guesses. It suits players who want a puzzle that fights back.
Best for semantic guessing: Contexto
Contexto drops the letter-matching entirely. You guess any word and the game ranks it by how close its meaning is to a secret word, so you work towards the answer by meaning. Choose it if you like vocabulary and association puzzles more than letter deduction.
Best for categorising words: Connections
Connections, from The New York Times, shows 16 words and asks you to sort them into four groups that share a link, with a limited number of mistakes. It is a different skill from Wordle – spotting themes and red herrings – but it appeals to the same daily-puzzle crowd.
And Wordle itself
The original Wordle is a single daily five-letter puzzle with six guesses, from The New York Times. Everything above is a variation on it, or in WordWarz’s case, a way to play that same style of guessing against other people. If you have been sharing your result grid with friends, playing a Wordle-style game with friends in real time is the next step.
How to choose
- Want to compete with friends live? Try WordWarz.
- Want more boards per puzzle? Try Quordle or Octordle.
- Want a harder, adversarial challenge? Try Absurdle.
- Want to guess by meaning? Try Contexto.
- Want a different daily puzzle? Try Connections.
Descriptions of other games are summaries as of October 2026 and these games change; check each game’s own site for its current rules. Names belong to their respective owners.
WordWarz is an independent game. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by The New York Times or Wordle, or by any game mentioned on this page.