If you've been on Twitter in the past week or two, you'll have probably seen a bunch of tweets with cryptic emoji squares. Tweets like this one:
You'll either know what these are, or you'll be annoyed that your entire feed is taken up with them. As it turns out, they're just the spoiler-free results of a game called Wordle — a daily, free, browser-based word-guessing game by a man named Josh Wardle (it's a play on his last name). It's simple and about as fun as doing the crossword, but what propelled it into virality is the enticingly mysterious way that you can share your results coded into squares.
Now Wordle has reached that stage of viral fame where people are both trying to cancel it and making spin-offs of it, including versions in other languages, one where you try to guess a single letter, and one where you try to guess which four-letter swear it is. Even the programmer of FEZ is getting in on it:
There is also a version where you are tasked with — rather than guessing a word — guessing which Pokémon (out of the almost-900) the game is thinking of, and it's called SQUIRDLE. Instead of telling you which letters are right, the game will tell you if you are in the right generation, the right type, and the right weight and height. Good luck to people who don't know all the intricate statistics about Pokémon, because that would really help here.
However, the website appears to be down for us — either through popularity or because The Pokémon Company said no, although we suspect the former. When it was up, though, it may not have been fully working, since this is how our attempt went:
Hopefully soon the site will be back up, although writing this news piece probably won't help. Share your results in the comments!
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I..... I'm scared....very scared
@Thelastjedi2007
Same, imagine all the other kinds they could make, I'm gonna have nightmares
Only know about Wordle b/c of all Alex and Kate's tweets. 😂
Nah just kidding, there's no escaping it on twitter. 😝
Haven't tried any version of it yet but I do like the idea of Squirdle. My kids could probably guess a lot of those.
All the knockoffs are a bit sad really. The guy made it for his partner and vows to keep it ad-free.
Started playing Wordle the other day. I like the simplicity and terseness of how it plays. Hope it remains that way
Obligatory "it's just a rip off of the TV show Lingo. And the TV show Lingo goes back DECADES!!" comment.
The site is very much still live and ad-free, I've been enjoying it today. Also a tip for the Pokemon's height and weight stats, you can mouseover or tap the names you've guessed already and it will display their info.
One day, wordle will consume us all.
In the end, we will all be wordle.
The book of Wordle, 206/206
Why are the comments in overwatch lego thing blocked? Did I lose something? D=
Squirdle 4/8
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I had never heard of wordle before
I just played for a little some are harder than others. Then one game I guessed Flygon as my first guess... That was the pokemon... I will stop playing this game forever now.
I tried it out. I got Gallade on my 5th guess out of 8. (It really helped that it just happens to weigh exactly the same as my previous guess of Blaziken.) Then I tried the Gen 1 version and got Wigglytuff on my 4th guess out of 5.
FYI, the Gen 1 version of the game does include the type retcons from future generations.
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