Waffle is a Wordle-like about swapping letters across a five-word grid Rock Paper Shotgun Support us Join our newsletter Visit our store Sign in / Create account If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Waffle is a Wordle-like about swapping letters across a five-word grid For when your typing fingers are tired News by Graham Smith Contributor Published on April 16, 2022 9 comments Waffle is a free, browser-based word game with a single puzzle each day and plentiful green and yellow squares. Beyond that, it has some pretty major differences from Wordle. It doesn't require you to type the letters, for one. Instead, Waffle presents you with a grid of five intersecting words with all of the letters already present. Most of the letters are jumbled up, and it's up to you to identify the correct words and spell them out by swapping the letters with each other using as few moves as possible. It works. I'm hooked. You can play it in your browser here. As with Wordle, the challenge is not necessarily in finding the solution. You've got 15 swaps available to you, which in my experience is more than enough to colour the board in green. Every Waffle can be solved in just ten moves, however, and you earn a star for each move you have remaining when the board is complete. I completed today's Waffle in eleven moves and so earned four stars. The other wrinkle worth keeping in mind concerns yellow tiles. As normal, a yellow tile denotes a letter that is present in a word but in the incorrect position. If a yellow tile appears at a corner, then the letter could belong to either of the intersecting words. Waffle therefore encourages you to see the whole board before you make a move. Does that E belong to this word or that, and if I'm going to move it in order to find out, what's the optimally efficient letter to swap it with? It won't tear your noodle to do, but the logical process is satisfying to follow. I continue every day to play Wordle, Worldle, Werdle, Heardle, Who Are Ya?, Framed, The Box Office Game, occasionally Quordle and Octordle and never Semantle. I feel like, at this point, we have reached the limits of the Wordlelikes, and all that lies beyond are just free, browser-based word and trivia games. This is absolutely fine to me, a lover of word and trivia games, and of free things I can play wherever. Thank you, Wordle, for making mini crosswords cool. More News Jack King-Spooner's next handcrafted game has a teaser demo out Judero brings chat and action in the Scottish Borders Alice O'Connor 17 hours ago 1 If you were hoping for any Overwatch 2 balance changes then you'll have to wait until season two The next season begins in December CJ Wheeler 18 hours ago 3 The Dead Space remake will chuck random Necromorphs at you as you wander the Ishimura In space, no one can hear you proper bricking it CJ Wheeler 18 hours ago 8 Valve register mysterious new Neon Prime trademark in the US It doesn’t seem to be for a particularly colourful Steam Deck CJ Wheeler 20 hours ago 11 Latest Articles What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Alice O'Connor an hour ago 21 Past Wordle answers Here's an archive of previous Wordle words Ollie Toms 2 hours ago 1 Wordle answer today (Saturday 15 October) Hints and the answer to today's Wordle word Rebecca Jones 9 hours ago Overwatch 2 hero tier list Which are the best heroes in Overwatch 2? Ollie Toms 16 hours ago Supporters Only You're probably better than me at One Many Nobody You go on without… uh, you? Sin Vega 17 hours ago Supporter podcast - The Nate Files episode 13: dry bones Bad science is also FUN science! Alice Bell 18 hours ago Japanese dating show Love Wagon has surprising parallels with Yakuza and Persona My new obsession Ed Thorn 2 days ago If you're hankering after Bayonetta 3, Valkyrie Elysium might be a good substitute It's not out on PC until next month, but the console demo has been a surprise charmer Katharine Castle 1 week ago 4 We've been talking, and we think that you should wear clothes Total coincidence, but we sell some clothes Buy RPS stuff here