In 2021,\u00a0Josh Wardle\u00a0launched the wildly popular word game\u00a0Wordle, and then the New York Times bought the game in 2022. If you’re unfamiliar with Wordle, it asks players to figure out a five-letter word in six or fewer guesses (we have a\u00a0two-step strategy to help you solve the puzzle every time<\/span><\/span>). After each guess, the game shows gray blocks for the wrong letters, yellow blocks for the right letters in the wrong spot and green blocks for the right letters in the correct spot.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n CNET’s\u00a0Gael Cooper<\/span><\/span>\u00a0has loads of tips and tricks to tackle each NY Times Wordle puzzle but if you’ve been playing the game everyday for the past few years, you might be getting tired of it. Luckily, there are other word and puzzles games to be played.<\/p>\n Don’t miss any of our unbiased tech content and lab-based reviews.\u00a0Add CNET\u00a0as a preferred Google source.<\/em><\/p>\n Here are 10 other puzzle games you can play now.<\/p>\n <\/div> I know it’s old but I’m not even going to try to figure this out.<\/p>\n <\/span> New York Times\/CNET<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/h2>\n <\/p>\n Another New York Times-owned puzzle,\u00a0Connections\u00a0is a tricky word game. “Players must select four groups of four words without making more than four mistakes,” the New York Times\u00a0wrote on X<\/a>. There are also four color-coded difficulty levels for each game; yellow is the easiest, then green, then blue and finally purple. The game is also similar to the BBC quiz show Only Connect, and the show’s host took to X<\/a>\u00a0to point out the connection. See what I did there?<\/p>\n You can play\u00a0Connections on any web browser but you need a New York Times subscription (which starts at $1 a week<\/span>) to play.<\/p>\n <\/div> Strands is another New York Times-owned puzzle but this game resembles a word search more so than Wordle and Connections. This game presents a theme every day to help you find words in a grid. In Strands words can appear forward, backward, top-to-bottom or any number of ways in a traditional word search, and words can also form in the shape of an “L” or have a zigzag in them. When you find a word, tap the first letter and drag your finger to the other letters. Every letter in the puzzle is used, so if you still have letters that aren’t connected to words, you aren’t finished yet.<\/p>\n You can play Strands on any web browser but you need a New York Times subscription (again, $1 a week<\/span>) to play.<\/p>\n <\/div> Quartiles<\/span><\/span> is a new word game Apple News Plus subscribers can access on their iPhone<\/span><\/span> or iPad<\/span><\/span> that’s running iOS 17.5<\/span><\/span> or later. In this word game, you’re given 20 tiles with letters on them and you’re trying to put them together to form different words. The longest words are four tiles long, and these are called Quartiles. The game can be tough but finding just one of the Quartiles is as satisfying as remembering something that was just on the tip of your tongue.<\/p>\n You can play Quartiles on an iPhone or iPad but you need an Apple News subscription (which starts at $13 a month<\/span>) to play.<\/p>\n Don’t miss any of our unbiased tech content and lab-based reviews. <\/em>Add CNET<\/em> as a preferred Google source.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/div> Quordle has you solve four word puzzles at once, which sounds daunting.<\/p>\n <\/span> Jakub Porzycki\/NurPhoto\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Are you up for a challenge? If you love Wordle and want puzzle games that take more brain power, you’ll want to check out either\u00a0Dordle<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0Quordle<\/span><\/span>, Octordle<\/span><\/span>\u00a0or\u00a0Sedecordle. Each of these word games resembles Wordle, but they add more rows, columns and words to solve. Each game requires you to simultaneously solve a different number of words at once: Dordle has you solving two words, Quordle four at once, Octordle eight at once and Sedecordle a whopping 16. Good luck.<\/p>\n You can play\u00a0Dordle<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0Quordle<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0Octordle<\/span><\/span>\u00a0or\u00a0Sedecordle\u00a0on any web browser.<\/p>\n “Lewdle is a game about rude words,” this game’s content advisory reads. “If you’re likely to be offended by the use of profanity, vulgarity or obscenity, it likely isn’t for you.” Translation: It’s Wordle but with bad words. The words range from mild — like poopy — to words that would make a sailor blush. Thankfully, despite this game’s content warning,\u00a0slurs are not included<\/a>. Like Wordle, gray, yellow and green blocks are used in the same way and there’s only one puzzle per day. So go forth and let the bad words flow!<\/p>\n You can play Lewdle on any web browser. You can also download this game from Apple’s App Store<\/span> or the Google Play<\/span> store.<\/p>\n <\/div> Not off to a great start with this Antiwordle puzzle.<\/p>\n <\/span> Antiwordle\/CNET<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Tired of seeing those gray, yellow and green blocks plastered all over your social media feed? Give Antiwordle a try. While Wordle wants you to guess a word in as few tries as possible, Antiwordle wants you to avoid the word by guessing as many times as possible. When you guess, letters will turn gray, yellow or red. Gray means the letter isn’t in the word and can’t be used again, yellow means the letter is in the word and must be included in each subsequent guess and red means the letter is in the exact position within the word and is locked in place. If you can use every letter on the keyboard without getting the word correct, you win. Honestly, I’ve found this version of Wordle to be much harder than the original.<\/p>\n You can play\u00a0Antiwordle\u00a0on any web browser.<\/p>\n Absurdle bills itself as the “adversarial version” of Wordle. While Wordle nudges you in the right direction with each guess, Absurdle is trying to avoid giving you the correct answer. According to the game’s website, “With each guess, Absurdle reveals as little information as possible, changing the secret word if need be.” Absurdle doesn’t pick a word at the beginning of the game for the player to guess. Instead, it uses the player’s guesses to narrow its list of words down in an effort to make the game go as long as possible. The final word might not even include a yellow letter from one of your earlier guesses either. You can guess as many times as you want, which is helpful, and the best score you can get is four. Have fun!<\/p>\n You can play Absurdle on any web browser.<\/p>\n For more word game fun, check out CNET’s Wordle tips<\/span><\/span>, the best Wordle jokes<\/span><\/span> and\u00a0everything you need to know about the word game. You can also check out what to know about the other New York Times-owned games,\u00a0Connections and Strands.<\/p>\nConnections<\/h2>\n
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