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24 alternatives to 18 Words

Play 18 Words, the free daily word puzzle. The official home is 18words.com. Tap Play now to open today

18 Words is a life and fun application launched in July 2026. The product appears to be designed around a constraint or concept involving eighteen words, though specific functionality details are not provided in the… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    2022 · twentyletters.com · its alternatives →

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    2024 · 23words.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Here’s a free, fun, novel five-letter word game for the web! It’s a game I originally wrote for the iPhone in 2010, but wasn’t able to finish before my first child was born. When I left my senior web developer job in September 2021 I figured I would postpone looking for work and finish the game before another 11 years passed, and expose myself to new skills doing it (in this case, Swift). I released it on the App Store in December, then turned my attention to doing a web version — when suddenly Wordle was in The NY Times, and then everywhere. Perhaps foolishly, I plowed ahead and here we…

    2022 · threemagicwords.app · its alternatives →

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    I've been playing Wordle and remembered this puzzle game I used to play with my grandfather. It's inspired by the block puzzles in many newspapers but made to be shorter: just guess the nine letter word. So I made a quick thing to play with my family like we used to. I thought you guys might enjoy it.

    2022 · nineletterwordgame.com · its alternatives →

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    A simple, challenging, daily, word game

    2022 · 6words.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Hi everybody. I occasionally make little browser-based games, and this is my latest attempt. It's not quite done, but it's quite playable (note: it does include audio): https://www.omiword.com/ This has been my occasional tinker target for ~5 years now, starting in the early days of Covid. The objective is to drag letter tiles within certain boundaries to spell four common American-English words. It hasn't got ads or anything, it's just supposed to be fun for its own sake. If people happen to like it, I might add an option for folks to make a small, one-time payment to unlock…

    2025 · omiword.com · its alternatives →

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    Fun daily word game where you make sequences of words.

    2022 · robinwords.com · its alternatives →

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    Custom word puzzles for friends

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    I shared Word Slicer here a while back — it’s a free, ad-free, browser-based word game where you try to find 5 words in 5 minutes. Since then I’ve been improving it (daily challenge archive, cleaner UI, better stats), and I’d love more feedback from the HN crowd. In particular, I’m interested in thoughts on the gameplay flow, design/UX, and what would make it more engaging.

    2024 · wordslicer.com · its alternatives →

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    Play word puzzles with friends, learn and train your brain

    2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Free daily word puzzle game

    2025 · wordsweep.io · its alternatives →

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    2019 · chooseaword.com · its alternatives →

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    A new daily word puzzle

    Feb 2026 · purpleword.com · its alternatives →

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    A free daily clue-based word puzzle game.

    Jul 2026 · clueday.com · its alternatives →

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    Vowl is a simple daily game where you have to guess three things just by looking at the vowels. Each guess will reveal how many vowels and consonants you matched.

    2023 · vowlgame.com · its alternatives →

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    A Beautiful, Daily Word Game

    2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Free daily word puzzle — guess the 5-letter word in 6 tries

    Jun 2026 · thedailyfive.net · its alternatives →

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    Guess the word. One puzzle a day.

    2025 · todaywordle.org · its alternatives →

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    A daily word game

    2025 · blossom.thodia.media · its alternatives →

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    Daily word puzzle game | free online word challenge

    2025 · totemwords.com · its alternatives →

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