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24 alternatives to Wordsweeper – A word guessing game based on levenshtein distance
Hey HN, I’ve been trying to spend more time working on small fun projects and wanted to share with you a fun word guessing game I made inspired by Wordle and Minesweeper. Here’s how it works: You guess a 5 letter word, and get back a score representing the “distance” between your guess and the correct word. The lower the score, the closer you are to the correct word. The score is calculated by taking the sum of the distance between the letters of your guess and the correct word, multiplied by the levenshtein distance between the guess and the correct word. Scores for each guess are tallied…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Wordsweeper – A word guessing game based on levenshtein distance launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A new Wordle-like game, where guesses are ranked by how close letters are on a QWERTY keyboard. Try it out and let me know what you think!
2024 · qwertle.friedman.in · its alternatives →
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A Wordle decoder that guesses your guesses. Contribute to mattruzicka/wordle_decoder development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Stepdle▲74Word game where you guess a 4,5,6 and a 7 letter word
2022 · stepdle.com · its alternatives →
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Wordie Bird▲95It's like if Wordle and a mini-crossword had a baby
2022 · wordiebird.every.to · its alternatives →
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Wordrow▲65A fun fast word game based on a mix of Wordle and Tetris
2023 · wordrow.fun · its alternatives →
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Play Wordle on Google Sheets. Contribute to sajadmh/google-sheets-wordle development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Wordict▲110Add Wordle-like game directly in your live broadcast
2022 · livereacting.com · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, I got this idea for a game where, starting from a four letter word you need to go as deep as you can in your vocabulary, changing only one letter per word. bear -> beer -> peer... Each correct word gives you 1 point Each incorrect word takes one life away from you, you start with 3
Jun 2026 · victorribeiro.com · its alternatives →
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Word Slicer▲85I 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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Make and share your own words! Fun twist on the popular game
2022 · mywordle.strivemath.com · its alternatives →
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Whittle is a small word game I've been working on. Each phrase must be whittled down by one letter (or space) each turn. The remaining phrase must still consist of valid words. That's it! There's a daily puzzle, as well as an archive of old puzzles. The idea for the game came to me in a dream (really) and I built the puzzle generator with my partner, who's also a software engineer. It's a labor of love! Any feedback or suggestions are welcome. Thanks for playing!
2025 · playwhittle.com · its alternatives →
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Hebrew Wordle▲132וורדעל- 5 אותיות, משחק מילים יומי שמבוסס על Wordle . במשחק וורדל מנחשים את המלה תוך שישה ניסיונות או פחות, בכל שורה הזינו מלה בת חמש אותיות בדיוק
2022 · wordleheb.web.app · its alternatives →
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Guess the word is the world’s best brain teaser and fun game
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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