{"id":126,"date":"2023-12-12T15:52:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T20:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/blog\/?p=126"},"modified":"2025-05-03T17:07:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T22:07:38","slug":"daily-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/blog\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"Favorite “Wordle” spin-offs and other games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since Wordle helped popularize the “daily game” trend, here are some I have enjoyed:<\/p>\n

NY Times Mini<\/a> – my mom and siblings share our scores<\/p>\n

NY Times Connections<\/a> – create similar groups of four<\/p>\n

Raddle<\/a> – “Word Transformation Game”<\/p>\n

Strands<\/a> – find the words and theme<\/p>\n

Quordle<\/a> – Wordle but four words<\/p>\n

Bandle<\/a> – guess the song one track at a time<\/p>\n

Cuedle<\/a> – guess the song quickly<\/p>\n

Decipher<\/a> – Cryptogram puzzle game… decipher the quote<\/p>\n

NY Times Letter Boxed<\/a> – I play less than I used to… I can usually get it in two if I spend enough time<\/p>\n

Chronophoto<\/a> – guess the year the photo was taken<\/p>\n

Timeguessr<\/a> – similar to Chronophoto but guess the location, too \u2014 I don’t play every day but I like Geoguessr-type games<\/p>\n

Immaculate Grid<\/a> – complete the grid with baseball players<\/p>\n

Framed<\/a> – guess the movie by still images<\/p>\n

Redactle<\/a> – try to figure out the Wikipedia article<\/p>\n

Moviedle<\/a> – another guess the movie game<\/p>\n

Worldle<\/a> – guess the country<\/p>\n

USA Today Jumble<\/a> – classic word game, glitchy design<\/p>\n

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Since Wordle helped popularize the “daily game” trend, here are some I have enjoyed: NY Times Mini – my mom and siblings share our scores NY Times Connections – create similar groups of four Raddle – “Word Transformation Game” Strands – find the words and theme Quordle – Wordle but four words Bandle – guess […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YXXB-22","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}