Wordle has taken the world by storm. The word-guessing game was made for creator Josh Wardle and his partner to enjoy, before adding the ability to share your results on social media turned it into a massive success. Now there are all kinds of clones and parodies, it's been referenced on Saturday Night Live, and even Google changes its logo when you search for it.
With it being so massively popular, it was only a matter of time before somebody made a version that tests your Magic The Gathering knowledge. Enter Moxle.
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Moxle is a Wordle-like created by the MTG deckbuilding website Moxfield, and it follows the same basic idea as Wordle. Each day, you have six attempts to guess the five-letter name, and each guess will highlight letters that are in the word but in the wrong place in yellow, and letters that are in the right place in purple.
This version uses the Scryfall API, meaning the name could be anything in Magic that has a total of five letters. Partial names don't count (so although Kwain has five letters, Kwain, Itinerant Meddler does not), but cards, tokens, emblems, planes, schemes, and any other game piece is fair game. They don't have to be a single word, either. The example Moxle gives is the Innistrad: Crimson Vow card Dig Up could be an answer, as DIGUP is five letters.
There are still a few quirks – Moxfield developers freely admit on Twitter they haven't been on the Wordle train as long as some of us – but it's a pretty impressive recreation. There are only a few Magic cards with five letters total, but a lot of them are obscure cards from decades ago like Camel or Lance.
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