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Absurdle is a Wordle variant that hates you - while Sweardle curses youSpins in the popular word game
Spins in the popular word game
Wordle hasengrossed me for a couple of weeks, along with much of the rest of the internet. It’s also a free, simple word game, meaning it’s relatively easy to recreate. Naturally, other developers are building their own twists on its core.
Among them,Absurdleis my favourite, an “adversarial version” of the game where the winning word changes as you guess. I’m also fond ofSweardle, however, a version designed for four-letter words.
The concept of Wordle is simple: you’ve got six attempts to guess the winning five-letter word. Correct letters in a guess are marked yellow, or green if they’re also in the correct position. With each guess, the possible winning words decrease, and you hone-in on the correct answer - or not. All of the variants maintain these core elements, while tweaking the rest.
If you like Absurdle, its developer has form, having also madeHATETRIS, a version of Tetris that deliberately gives you pieces which screw you.
Sweardle, meanwhile, ismuch simpler: you get four attempts to guess a four-letter word, with only swear words allowed. This is, I’m ashamed to admit, the first Wordle or Wordle-variant where I’ve failed to find the winner. Perhaps you’re more potty-mouthed than me.
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