From Foodle to Framed: Wordle has some serious game competition now
nypost.comWordle becoming a global sensation, enterprising game mavens have concocted multiple spinoffs to cash in on the New York Times-owned puzzle’s popularity.These offshoot brainteasers range from everything from gourmand-themed guessing games to the NFL-inspired Wordle spinoff Weddle and everything in between.They generally copy the format of Josh Wardle’s original puzzle — in which players try and guess a new word each day in under six tries — but, with some exceptions, skew more fun than frustrating.
Indeed, Wordle recently come under fire on social media for being decidedly too difficult. In February, US users slammed the Wordle of the Day — “bloke” — for being “too British, while earlier that month, incensed social media users claimed they were unable to win that day’s brain teaser because of too many vocabulary variations.Wordle subsequently attempted to help stumped puzzlers with an AI assistant, only to have users slam the cybernetic nitpicker as “condescending.”Here’s hoping these niche trivia quizzes provide a puzzle palate cleanser.
Are you a “Good Will Hunting”-level savant when it comes to film trivia? Check out Moviedle, a popular cinema-based guessing game created by Jeremy Toeman of AugX Labs.
The “Daily Guess That Movie” game, which dropped on March 24, is similar to Wordle, except players try and guess movies rather than vocab.
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