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Meet lewdle the nsfw wordle clone that rewards dirty minds
Another day, another Wordle, and also another Wordle clone offering a delightful or diabolical twist on the viral word game.
A quick recap: In addition to Josh Wardle's massively successful daily format, there's Lewdle (rude five-letter words only), Absurdle (a truly evil variant that switches up the guessing process), Primel (five-digit prime numbers only), Sweardle (four-letter words, obviously), and probably more in the works. But like the original flavour, all of these refresh once a day, so you can't spend endless hours guessing endless words to your heart's content. That's part of the appeal — Wordle isn't trying to monopolise and monetise your attention like so many games and apps do — but it does mean that once you've done the day's puzzle, that's it until tomorrow. And because you're human and thus wired to crave fun, you always want a little more. So Dordle is granting your wish — the way a monkey's paw would.
Dordle — described by developer Zaratustra Productions (aka Guilherme S. Töws) as "Wordle plus Wordle" — is definitely in the diabolical category of Wordle variants, and not only because there is zero clarity on how to pronounce the name. (Doordle? Durdle?)
The game consists of two Wordle grids side by side, both working as the standard format does — five letters, six guesses, greyed-out squares for letters not present in the solution, yellow squares for letters in the wrong place, and green for letters in the right place.
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