The idea is simple. You have six guesses to guess a five-letter word. If a letter you guess is in the word but in the wrong place, it is highlighted in yellow. If the letter is in the correct place it is highlighted in green. It’s kind of like a cross between Hangman and Mastermind.
Well, the retro community wasn’t going to hold back in creating versions for all the retro systems. Here is our round-up of all the Retro-Wordle’s we can find! Let us know if you find any others.
Acorn Archimedes
Arcle
by Steven Howes
GitHub – stevenhowes/Arcle: An implementation of Wordle for the Acorn Archimedes series
Amiga
aWordle
Variant for the Amiga’s console
awordle – Wordle console implementation – English Amiga Board
Amstrad CPC
Wordle CPC
by arnolde
Apple IIGS
Wordle GS
by Dan Malec
GitHub – dmalec/Wordle.GS: A clone of Wordle for the Apple IIGS
Atari 2600
2600 Words
by Karl G
2600 Words (Wordle clone)
Atari 7800
W O R D L E
by mksmith
W O R D L E [DONE]
BBC Micro
Wordle for the BBC Micro
by Chris Bradburne
Commander X16
Word Slide!
By SlithyMatt
GitHub – SlithyMatt/cbm-wordslide: Guess a 5-letter word, for CBM-based machines (C64, X16, etc.)
Commodore VIC20
20RDLE
by Jason Justian
Word Slide!
By SlithyMatt
GitHub – SlithyMatt/cbm-wordslide: Guess a 5-letter word, for CBM-based machines (C64, X16, etc.)
Commodore 64
Turdle
by Roysterini
Word Slide!
By SlithyMatt
GitHub – SlithyMatt/cbm-wordslide: Guess a 5-letter word, for CBM-based machines (C64, X16, etc.)
Commodore Plus/4
Word Slide!
By FIRE (converted from SlithyMatt’s version)
Teddle
By Bo Zimmerman and Steve Gray.
Fairchild Channel F
Wrdl-F
by Arlasoft
Wrdl-F (Channel F) by Arlasoft
Game Boy
GB Wordle
By stacksmashing
GitHub – stacksmashing/gb-wordle: A WORDLE clone for the Nintendo Game Boy
Play online here: https://nezza.github.io/gbwordle/
GB Fiver
By Alexander Pruss
A version of GB Wordle, where the author attempted successfully to include 12972 words
Game Boy Fiver [Wordle clone]: How to compress 12972 five-letter words to 17871 bytes
GB Wordyl
by bbbbbr
GB-Wordyl: Wordle clone for Game Boy (& Color) / Analogue Pocket by bbbbbr
Intellivision
INTL
by cmadruga
Intle: Wordle for Intellivision
MS-DOS
WorDOSle
by Graham Downey
Wordos
by kajott
GitHub – kajott/wordos: a Wordle clone for DOS
Nintendo Entertainment System
NES Wordle
by FG Software
Wordle NES by Vectrex28
Nerdle
by Z-10
Nokia N-Gage
NGAGE WORDL
By Michael Fitzmayer
Even the N-Gage is getting in on the act!
GitHub – ngagesdk/wordle: A clone of Wordle for the Nokia N-Gage.
Pico-8
WRDL
by scarecrw
Sega Mega Drive
MD Wordle
by Matt J
Tandy Color Computer
COCOdle
by Rick Adams
GitHub – yggdrasilradio/cocole: Wordle port for the Tandy Color Computer 3
TRS-80
There’s currently a competition for Wordle clones at trs-80.org.uk
TRS-80 Model 100
m100LE
by bgri
GitHub – bgri/m100LE: A Wordle-like game for the vintage Tandy (Radio Shack) Model 100
Texas Calculators
Wordle CE
by commandblockguy
GitHub – commandblockguy/wordle: Wordle clone for graphing calculators
ZX81
Lingo
by Dr. Beep
ZX Spectrum
ZX GUORDEL
by Kounch
ZX Wordle
by Adam Ainsworth
Finally,
If you want to play Wordle on a teletype you can do that too, thanks to Hugh Pyle.
You can play the real Wordle on your browser here: