Love Wordle? These Fun Word Games Don't Require Looking At Your Phone

Take a break from your screen and get your hands on these card and tile word games instead.
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By the time you read this, you probably already finished today’s Wordle — or you’re about to right now. But before you do, consider giving your eyes a rest and playing a game that you can actually touch, with pieces you can actually feel. Whether you’re looking for a word game the whole family can get in on or you just want to practice your vocabulary skills solo, there are are a ton of games to get those semantics wheels turning in your brain. 

There’s the old faithful, family-friendly game Scrabble, which has been around for over eight decades, and newer games like A Little Wordy, which comes from the masterminds behind Exploding Kittens, and the prediction-centered Blank Slate. We rounded up all of these fun wordy games and more in our list below. 

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Scrabble
There's always time for a game of classic Scrabble. It's the ultimate competitive crossword game that's stood the test of time and will give your eyes a break from your phone screen.
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Word Witt
Get the whole family involved in the fun with Word Witt, a game geared toward increasing your vocabulary and strengthening your mental agility. Simply roll the dice, flip a card and compete with up to four people to create the most words in a minute.
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A Little Wordy
From the creators of the ultra-popular game Exploding Kittens comes A Little Wordy, a tile-unscrambling game suitable for two players. Both of you will get a pile of tiles and rearrange the letters until you create a word. Then, you write the word down, hide it and use the clue cards to guess each other's word.
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Blank Slate
This word prediction game is easy to learn and play, and comes with everything you need for a fun experience including a dry-erase score board, 8 dry-erase slates, 250 double-sided word cue cards and 8 dry-erase markers with erasers. Start the game off by pulling a word cue card, and then each player writes what word they would use to complete the phrase. The key is to try to come up with a word that matches someone else's without giving hints.
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Wordplay
If fast-paced word games are your thing, Wordplay is the game for you. The spinner determines the letters and category for each round, and every player races to write down answers on their game sheet before time runs out. For instance, if the letters are "A" and "E" and the category is "food," a possible answer could be "apple."
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Upwords
Word games and tiles go hand in hand, and this especially goes for Upwords, a four-player letter stacking game in which the higher you stack, the more points you earn. Each player starts with seven tiles and can create words across, down or up, by stacking each tile on top of other tiles to create new words.
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Jabuka
Word options are endless with this letter game in which letters can be rotated to form different letters and words (for example, a "j" can rotate into an "r"). The game is suitable for two to eight players.
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Big Boggle
This classic two-to-four-player game first arrived on the scene in 1979. Big Boggle is a simple, yet fun word game that takes just three minutes. Once you start the timer, each player searches the letters to make words with at least four letters. The longer the word, the more points you earn.
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Puns of Anarchy
For fans of puns, this party game is beginner-friendly and involves pop culture knowledge. Each dry-erase card contains the name of an artist, movie, song or other well-known entertainment title, and each player's job is to change a few letters on each one to create a funny pun. The judge decides which is best.

Before You Go

Games That Are Just Like Wordle
Hello Wordl(01 of11)
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Hello Wordl uses the same yellow and green feedback clues as Wordle, but there are two key differences: You can "give up" when stumped to find out the word, and you can play unlimited times per day. (credit:hellowordl.net)
Quordle(02 of11)
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In Quordle, players have to solve four word grids at once, with every guess revealing clues on every board. Two more features set this site apart: There's an "official" game you can only play once daily, plus a practice board you can play over and over. (credit:Quordle)
Absurdle(03 of11)
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Absurdle says it's an "adversarial" version of Wordle. It doesn't just pick one single answer for you to guess, but actively tries to prolong the game by using your guesses to widen the field of possible answers as much as the pool of words allows. If you need a challenge, this is for you! (credit:Absurdle)
Lewdle(04 of11)
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Check that potty mouth of yours with Lewdle, a Wordle-style game with guesses from the dirtiest nether regions of the dictionary. Its creators say more than 3 million people have played it in its first few weeks online. Filthy! (credit:Lewdle)
Word Master(05 of11)
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Play as much as you want with Word Master, a game that is basically Wordle with a different interface and free unlimited words. (credit:Word Master)
Lordle Of The Rings(06 of11)
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Stray but a little, and you will fail. This Wordle alternative uses five-letter words from the books of J.R.R. Tolkien, including proper nouns like character names and places. There's one Lordle of the Rings game per day, but you can play until you figure out the answer. (credit:Lordle Of The Rings)
Crosswordle(07 of11)
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Guess two related words that intersect with each other on Crosswordle, which also allows you to create your own personalized game to share with friends. (credit:Crosswordle)
Dordle(08 of11)
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Like Quordle, Dordle lets you guess more than one word while only inputting one word at a time. This one challenges you to go for two, and just once per day. (credit:Dordle)
Taylordle(09 of11)
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As you might have guessed from the name, this Wordle-style puzzle asks users to guess one word each day that somehow relates to Taylor Swift. (credit:Taylordle)
Worldle(10 of11)
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Geography braggarts can get what's coming to them with the daily challenge on Worldle, which presents the shape of a country and lets you know with a percentage clue how physically close your guess is to the right answer. (We totally knew this was Suriname — we just wanted to show you how it works.) (credit:Worldle)
Wordle In Spanish(11 of11)
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Whether you're fluent or practicing, Wordle (Es) gives you all the fun of Wordle, but in Spanish. If offers just one puzzle per day, but if you're multilingual, you can also check out versions in languages including French, Portuguese, Hawaiian and German. (credit:Wordle (Es))

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