Wordle Retro-Clone Round-Up

You may have come across Wordle – a web-based word game created by Josh Wardle in 2021 and since acquired by the New York Times.

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


Amiga​

aWordle
Variant for the Amiga’s console


Amstrad CPC​

Wordle CPC
by arnolde


Apple IIGS​

Wordle GS
by Dan Malec


Atari 2600

2600 Words
by Karl G


Atari 7800​

W O R D L E
by mksmith


BBC Micro​

Wordle for the BBC Micro
by Chris Bradburne


Commander X16

Word Slide!
By SlithyMatt


Commodore VIC20​

20RDLE
by Jason Justian

Word Slide!
By SlithyMatt


Commodore 64​

Turdle
by Roysterini

Word Slide!
By SlithyMatt


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


Game Boy​

GB Wordle
By stacksmashing

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

GB Wordyl
by bbbbbr


Intellivision​

INTL
by cmadruga


MS-DOS

WorDOSle
by Graham Downey

Wordos
by kajott


Nintendo Entertainment System​

NES Wordle
by FG Software

Nerdle
by Z-10


Nokia N-Gage

NGAGE WORDL
By Michael Fitzmayer
Even the N-Gage is getting in on the act!


Pico-8

WRDL
by scarecrw


Sega Mega Drive​

MD Wordle
by Matt J


Tandy Color Computer​

COCOdle
by Rick Adams


TRS-80​

There’s currently a competition for Wordle clones at trs-80.org.uk


TRS-80 Model 100​

m100LE
by bgri


Texas Calculators​

Wordle CE
by commandblockguy


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:

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