Scholardle is Wordle, but actually hard - here’s how to play

techradar.com:

Wordle isn’t going anywhere, but it might be getting easier. While other Wordle clones like Heardle have repurposed its five-letter-guessing formula in different ways, a new spin-off ups the challenge for those brainiacs who fancy themselves kings of the linguistic guessing game.

Scholardle is pitched as Wordle for those who like a challenge. Created by the company behind academic proofreading tool Writeful, it follows the same template of the original game. You’ll need to guess a five-letter word in five tries or less, using color clues to narrow down the correct answer. The target word resets every 24 hours, and the game will record your winning streak.

The twist, however, is that you won’t be trying to guess from the everyday vocabulary we’re all familiar with, but words from the esoteric, jargon-filled world of academia. Its creators say they’ve collected a list of the top academic words for Scholardle, effectively challenging your understanding of the most obscure vocabulary in the English language.

That should increase the challenge a fair bit, although university students and professors may have an advantage after reading all those academic journals and manuscripts.

You can play the game on the Scholardle website and it can be played on any device that can open a web browser.

The game is based on an open-source project called Reactle that was designed as a clone of Worlde to be openly shared and edited into different versions or themes. It’s based on the same open-source code that was used to create the Pokémon-themed Squirdle and the Harry Potter-styled Wizarding Wordle.

Scholardle also includes an optional hard mode that forces you to use any revealed hints in subsequent guesses, as well as a dark and high contrast