Trivia

#### About the game

* Wordle was made by Josh Wardle, who made the game for his partner. He released it to the public in October 2021.
* Josh Wardle named the game Wordle as a play on his last name.
* New York Times bought Wordle from Wardle. According to NYT, the price paid was in "the low-seven figures" (aka more than $1 million).

## Wordle #231

Example of Twitter user sharing their Wordle results

* There are 2309 total Wordles. The first Wordle was on June 19, 2021. The last Wordle is scheduled for October 14, 2027.
* Wordle uses American spelling. For example, Wordle #207 is "favor", despite the fact that UK spells the word "favour."
* Six Wordles have been deleted by New York Times at some point in time after they have bought the game. It is likely that some of these words have been deleted because it is inappropriate to use them as a Wordle. FIBRE has the alternative spelling, fiber. AGORA could have been deleted because it was scheduled right before a very similar word, AROMA. These deleted words will be included here for documentation purposes. The six Wordles that have been deleted are:
	+ AGORA (used to be Wordle #241, was scheduled for February 15, 2022)
	+ PUPAL (used to be Wordle #245, February 19, 2022)
	+ LYNCH (used to be Wordle #274, March 20, 2022)
	+ FIBRE (used to be Wordle #295, April 10, 2022
	+ SLAVE (used to be Wordle #305, April 20, 2022)
	+ WENCH (used to be Wordle #396, July 20, 2022)
* After the above Wordles were deleted, the words in the following collapsable list have been shifted out of order to a different spot by New York Times. If the spot of the shifted word is replaced by another shifted word (as opposed to shifting the entire list up), it will be noted here (click expand to view):

* HARRY (moved from Wordle #284, March 30, 2022 to Wordle #2291, September 27, 2027)
* HASTY (Wordle #315, April 30, 2022 to Wordle #2292, September, 2027)
* FELLA (Wordle #317, May 2, 2022 to Wordle #2289, September 25, 2027)
* FETUS (Wordle #324, May 9, 2022 to Wordle #2303, October 9, 2027) -> *Replaced with SHINE*
* BUTCH (Wordle #325, May 10, 2022 to Wordle #2304, October 10, 2027) -> *Replaced with GECKO*
* PAYER (Wordle #360, June 14, 2022 to Wordle #2297, October 3, 2027)
* GAILY (Wordle #382, July 6, 2022 to Wordle #2290, September 26, 2027)
* FLACK (Wordle #383, Jul 7 2022 to Wordle #2306, October 12, 2027)
* STALK (Wordle #387, Jul 11 2022 to Wordle #2305, October 11, 2027)
* HYDRO (Wordle #388, July 12, 2022 to Wordle #2293, September 29, 2027)
* AUGUR (Wordle #394, Jul 18 2022 to Wordle #2308, October 14, 2027)
* BOBBY (Wordle #405, July 29, 2022 to Wordle #2287, September 23, 2027)
* WIDOW (Wordle #436, Aug 29 2022 to Wordle #2307, October 13, 2027)
* UNLIT (Wordle #438, August 31, 2022 to Wordle #2300, October 6, 2027)
* OCTAL (Wordle #442, September 4, 2022 to Wordle #2295, October 1, 2027)
* ECLAT (Wordle #466, September 28, 2022 to Wordle #2288, September 24, 2027)
* SOOTH (Wordle #473, October 5, 2022 to Wordle #2298, October 4, 2027)
* LIEGE (Wordle #476, October 8, 2022 to Wordle #2294, September 30, 2027)
* UNSET (Wordle #498, October 30, 2022 to Wordle #2299, October 5, 2027)
* VOMIT (Wordle #523, November 24, 2022 to Wordle #2301, October 7, 2027)
* OMBRE (Wordle #524, November 25, 2022 to Wordle #2296, October 2, 2027)
* FANNY (Wordle #525, November 26, 2022 to Wordle #2302, October 8, 2027)
* SHINE (Wordle #2248, Aug 15 2027 to Wordle #324, May 9 2022)
* GECKO (Wordle #2249, Aug 16 2027 to Wordle #325, May 10 2022)

* As of now, NYT has not added any new Wordles.
* It is unknown whether the list of accepted words that players can guess have been changed by NYT. However, what is known is that players can no longer guess any of the six deleted Wordles (though players can still guess the American spelling of fibre, "fiber").
* The Wordle solutions generally are common words. However, players can still guess obscure words, as it might help in searching for letters in the Wordle. Also, players should not assume the word will be a common word, as a significant chunk of the Wordles are obscure words.

#### Other

* There are many knock-offs/spin-offs of Wordle available as an app. However, the official Wordle game is only available as a web browser game.
* There are also many web browser spin-offs. Some are listed in the "Helpful/relevant links" section below
* Wordle allows players to share their results via colored square emojis, which is often shared on Twitter.
* A Wordle-themed Google Doodle appears any time someone searches "Wordle" on Google.

## Squardle game

Picture of a completed Squardle game on a classroom projector screen

https://word.rodeo/ – Website for creating your own Wordles, and with more flexibility. Users can create 3-15 word long Wordles, with max guesses set at 3-12 guesses. There are also options for hints and turning off the requirement to only guess words in the dictionary

https://mottaquikarim.github.io/wordle\_timemachine/ – Allows players to play past and future Wordles, a feature that the official website does not have

https://fubargames.se/squardle/ – Squardle is a two-dimensional Wordle game (solving for a grid of words, as opposed to a single word). A warning that Squardle is significantly more complicated than Wordle

https://rwmpelstilzchen.gitlab.io/wordles/ – 350+ variants of Wordle, including 91 versions based on real languages, including regional dialects, indigenous languages, American sign language, and Klingon

https://twitter.com/WordleStats – Twitter account that tweets statistics on how players did on the Wordle of the day

https://www.dictionary.com/e/wordle/ – Dictionary.com's advice to playing Wordle

https://scoredle.com/ – Can show the number of possible words for a sequence of guesses, and shows its predicted optimal guess based on which word eliminates the most possibilities

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v68zYyaEmEA | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRed0Xmc2Wg– Two 3Blue1Brown videos, discusses most optimal way to solve Wordle (and clarifies that the strategy only works for bots, not humans), presents results from a bot he created, corrects some mistakes from first video in second video