Wordle's New Challenge Book Does Most Of The Work For You
A new physical puzzle book based on viral sensation Wordle has been announced, but some fans of the original browser game may think it looks suspiciously easy. This book is far from the only extra piece of content based upon the immensely popular word puzzle game, as a number of quirky spin-offs have been created, including a recent Fortnite-Wordle combo game.
The list of Wordle clones is massive and seems to continue to grow each day, but they are nearly all from third-party developers and not directly associated with the original games or The New York Times, which purchased Wordle earlier this year. This has led to Wordle becoming less of a franchise and more of its own puzzle sub-genre, with other free-to-play games adopting its general guessing and deductive reasoning structure, and crafting new titles themed on subjects like geography, history, and even trivia about other video games. It looks like The New York Times itself might be attempting to expand the world of Wordle with officially licensed extraneous materials like the recently released WordleBot, which rates a player's choices and provides AI-generated feedback.
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The Wordle brand continues to fill out and diversify with the reveal of Wordle Challenge, a new puzzle collection from novelty book publisher Ivy Press. As covered by Twinfinite, the puzzles found within Wordle Challenge follow the same formula as Wordle, but it looks like the top five guesses will already be completed for the player, who only has to take the information provided by those previous "guesses" and fill out the bottom word. There is also a clue provided with each puzzle, and an answer key located at the end of
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