Wordle #480, October 12: Hints, answer to today’s word puzzle

Designed by a software engineer for his wife, Wordle has taken the internet by storm, with people across the globe obsessed with the daily word challenge. Here are some alternatives.

Helpful nerds on the internet know very well that puzzle obsessives could hardly wait a whole day, so they hosted this app on GitHub, Word Master, that keeps giving you a new five-letter word. No waiting no more.

An even more flexible and challenging option, Hello Wordl allows you to tailor the length of the words you want to guess, ranging from five to eleven letters.

Adversarial Wordle is actively trying to avoid giving you the answer. While based on the same principle as Wordle, this one tries its best to avoid giving you the answer, sometimes even changing the word if it needs to. You have endless attempts.

A parody of Wordle, Byrdle makes you guess a five-letter word that is related to choral music.

Keep these away from the children. Like most popular things on the internet, Wordle also gets a dirty version in the form of Lewdle, which makes you guess lewd words and NSFWordle which is straight up expletives.

Not exactly Wordle, but the NYT Spelling Bee has been a mainstay for years now, giving players a seven letter hexagon to make as many words as possible.

Wordle, meet Pokemon. This version of Wordle only borrows the concept, doing away with the words and using Pokemon instead. You have six guesses to figure out which one it is. Squirdle gives you clues in approximations of weight and size as well as the type of Pokemon.

Who needs words when you have prime numbers? Guess a five digit prime number in six tries. Primel refreshes every 24 hours.