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Bigger sized hints
Use this setting to make the hints on 5x5 boards default to taking up one third of their square's width and height instead of one fourth.
This gain in size comes as a tradeoff though: If enabled, after guess #9 the relative position of each hints in their square will no longer corresponds to what guess generated them.
(You can long-press or right-click a hint to still see this info.)
Auto-hide hints
Enabling these options will cause these hints to be hidden as soon as they are placed on the board.
Green: Black: Repeated:
Backspace deletes full guess
With this option enabled the backspace will delete not just the last letter in your current guess.
Use old keyboard style
How Squardle's keyboard used to look. Enable this option if you want the keyboard to only have keys that are purple, light gray, and dark gray.
Show dark gray keyboard clues
Turn any letter that can't be placed in either direction for the next guess dark gray on the keyboard. This ignores fully solved words.
So it will darken keys for letters that already appear in a fully solved word if your hints say that the letter can't go anywhere in the unsolved word you're currently guessing.
Show yellow, red, and orange keyboard clues
Display yellow and red keyboard keys for the row and column you're about to guess in next. Keys where the letter has a hint in that row or column that has more arrows than the number of solved such letters in that direction will turn yellow or red. Note that this means that already greened squares won't cause the key to be yellow or red, even if there are yellow or red hints. Keys that would be both yellow and red turn orange instead.
Colorblind friendly keyboard
Display arrows on the keyboard for yellow, red and orange keys. (Note that the keyboard will never display double or triple arrows.)
Notes can normally be set as a guess or as certain. Disable either (or both) if you don't use them to save a few clicks or misclicks.
Disable "Mark note as guess":
Disable "Mark note as certain":
First click marks note as a guess
Enable this option to make the first click on a square without a note make a note marked as a guess instead of as certain. (This setting is not availible if either note type is disabled.)
Reset your stats and streaks for this language
Warning: This option can't be undone. This removes the stats and streaks as well as speedrun records. But it doesn't remove data about what boards you've played. If you just want to replay today's daily Squardle, consider opening an incognito window instead of deleting your cookies.
Use old version of share emoji
The new version shows how the grid looked after your first solved word and says how many guesses that took. Enable this option if you prefer to keep using the old share emoji that always shows how the board looked after you had guessed once in each row and column.
Disable instructions on startup (unless something's new)
Remove the startup instructions unless there's an update, and even then only show that page once.
You can still click here to manually go to the startup page.
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Before reporting any bug related to double or triple arrows, first read the FAQ about how double and triple arrows are supposed to work.
The same goes for bugs related to missing bonus guesses, where you should scroll down to the section entitled "How do bonus guesses work?", also in the the FAQ.
For bugs and things not covered by the FAQ, send an e-mail to me:
pellen@gmail.com.
If the problem is something you can take a screenshot of, that also helps!
If it's a bug related to cookies, use the export feature on the settings page and include the string that it puts into your clipboard with your bug report. (If the bug stops happening with you go to an incognito/private browser window, then cookies are probably relevant.)
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Ein Wort gilt als gelöst, wenn alle Buchstaben gelöst (grün) sind, auch wenn es nicht selbst eingegeben wurde.
Grün – Dieser Buchstabe ist im richtigen Feld. In diesem Fall wird das Feld selbst ebenfalls grün eingefärbt. Ziel ist es, alle 21 Felder grün einzufärben, bevor die Versuche aufgebraucht sind.
Gelb – Dieser Buchstabe ist in der richtigen Reihe, aber nicht in diesem Feld. Der Buchstabe ist mindestens so oft enthalten, wie schwarze Pfeilpaare angezeigt werden. Dabei werden bereits gelöste Buchstaben mitgezählt. Um zwei oder drei Pfeilpaare zu erhalten muss ein Wort geraten werden, das den Buchstaben ebenso zwei bzw. drei Mal enthält. Ein gelber Hinweis bedeutet auch, dass der Buchstabe in der Spalte nicht enthalten ist.
Rot – Dieser Buchstabe ist in der richtigen Spalte, aber nicht in diesem Feld. Der Buchstabe ist mindestens so oft enthalten, wie weiße Pfeilpaare angezeigt werden, wie bei den gelben Hinweisen. Ein roter Hinweis bedeutet auch, dass der Buchstabe in der Zeile nicht enthalten ist.
Orange – Orange Hinweise entsprechen einem gelben und roten Hinweis, der Buchstabe ist also in Reihe und Spalte enthalten, aber nicht in diesem Feld. Die Pfeilpaare entsprechen denen bei gelben und roten Hinweisen.
Weiß – Dieser Buchstabe kommt in einem Feld vor, aber nicht in dieser Zeile oder Spalte.
Schwarz – Dieser Buchstabe kommt in gar keinem Feld vor.
Blauer Kreis – Klickt man direkt auf ein ungelöstes Feld und tippt dann einen Buchstaben ein, so erscheint er in einem blauen Kreis. Diese Funktion kann als Merkhilfe genutzt werden.
Jag som utvecklar Squardle är svensk. Därför har Squardle en svensk ordlista för bräden på svenska trots att andelen svenska spelare inte är jättestor.
Jag har dock inte översatt engelskan i instruktionerna, grafiken och i användargränssnittet. Om du inte kan engelska alls så kan det därför i nuläget
bli lite lurigt att lista ut hur man spelar. Jag hoppas engelskan inte ställer till det allt för mycket för någon, för det här blir den sista svenskan utanför brädet!
Lycka till!
~FurbyFubar
Una palabra está resuelta si todas las letras son verdes, incluso si no adivinaste la palabra completa de una vez.
Verde – Esta letra está en el cuadrado correcto. En este caso, el propio cuadrado también se vuelve verde. El objetivo es colorear los 21 cuadrados de verde antes de que se agoten los intentos.
Amarillo – Esta letra está en la fila correcta, pero no en el cuadrado correcto. La letra se incluye en la fila al menos tantas veces como pares de flechas se muestran. Para obtener una flecha doble o triple, tanto la suposición como la respuesta deben tener múltiplos de esa letra. Una pista amarilla también significa que la letra no está en la columna.
Rojo –Esta letra está en la columna correcta, pero no en la correcta cuadrado. La letra se incluye en la columna al menos tantas veces como pares de flechas se muestran. Para obtener una flecha doble o triple, tanto la suposición como la respuesta deben tener múltiplos de esa letra. Una pista roja también significa que la letra no está en la fila.
Naranja – Las pistas naranjas corresponden a una pista amarilla y roja, por lo que la letra está en la fila y la columna, pero no en este cuadrado. Los pares de flechas corresponden a las reglas para las pistas amarillas y rojas.
Blanco – Esta letra aparece en un cuadrado del tablero, pero no en esta fila o columna.
Negro – Esta letra no aparece en ninguna casilla del tablero.
Círculo azul – Si hace clic directamente en un cuadrado sin resolver y luego escribe una letra, aparecerá en un círculo azul. Esto se puede utilizar como una nota de recordatorio.
Uma palavra é resolvida se todas as letras forem verdes, mesmo que você não adivinhe a palavra inteira de uma vez.
Verde – Esta letra está no quadrado correto. Nesse caso, o próprio quadrado também fica verde. O objetivo é colorir todos os 21 quadrados de verde antes que as tentativas acabem.
Amarelo – Esta letra está na linha correta, mas não no quadrado correto. A letra é incluída na linha pelo menos tantas vezes quanto os pares de setas são mostrados. Para obter uma seta dupla ou tripla, tanto o palpite quanto a resposta precisam ter múltiplos dessa letra. Uma pista amarela também significa que a letra não está na coluna.
Vermelho –Esta letra está na coluna correta, mas não na correta Praça. A letra é incluída na coluna pelo menos tantas vezes quanto os pares de setas são mostrados. Para obter uma seta dupla ou tripla, tanto o palpite quanto a resposta precisam ter múltiplos dessa letra. Uma pista vermelha também significa que a letra não está na linha.
Laranja – As pistas laranja correspondem a uma pista amarela e vermelha, então a letra está na linha e na coluna, mas não neste quadrado. Os pares de setas correspondem às regras das pistas amarelas e vermelhas.
Branco – Esta letra aparece em um quadrado no tabuleiro, mas não nesta linha ou coluna.
Preto – Esta carta não aparece em nenhum quadrado do tabuleiro.
Círculo azul – Se você clicar diretamente em um quadrado não resolvido e digitar uma letra, ela aparecerá em um círculo azul. Isso pode ser usado como uma nota de lembrete.
Squardle is a Wordle variation where you solve a board of interlocking words in a 5x5 grid by guessing words and getting colored hints.
Green – This letter is in its correct square. A square that's solved stays green for the rest of the game.
Yellow, red, and orange – This letter is not in the guessed square, but it is in the same row, column, or both, as indicated by the arrow pairs on the hint.
White – This letter isn't in this row or column, but it appears somewhere else on the board.
Black – This letter doesn't appear on the board at all.
Multiple arrows – To get a hint with multiple arrow pairs, both the answer and the guess for that row or column have to include multiples of the letter. You always get the lowest number of arrows between those two, unless the square's green.
So for example, if the answer for a row is GEESE and you guess LEVEL in that row, the first E will be green and the second E will be a double-arrowed yellow. Note that it's not a triple-arrowed yellow, despite the answer having three Es, since the guess only placed two Es in the row.
Your guesses will go into both a row and a column. You don't get to pick where you enter your next guess, the game will automatically cycle through the rows and columns. But you can enter notes in blue circles to remember what letter you want to try in a square on a later guess by clicking on a square and typing in the letter.
You start with 10 guesses and can earn up to 5 bonus guesses by solving words. Solving the 6th and final word wins the game!
Good luck!
Una palabra está resuelta si todas las letras son verdes, incluso si no adivinaste la palabra completa de una vez.
Verde – Esta letra está en el cuadrado correcto. En este caso, el propio cuadrado también se vuelve verde. El objetivo es colorear los 21 cuadrados de verde antes de que se agoten los intentos.
Amarillo – Esta letra está en la fila correcta, pero no en el cuadrado correcto. La letra se incluye en la fila al menos tantas veces como pares de flechas se muestran. Para obtener una flecha doble o triple, tanto la suposición como la respuesta deben tener múltiplos de esa letra. Una pista amarilla también significa que la letra no está en la columna.
Rojo –Esta letra está en la columna correcta, pero no en la correcta cuadrado. La letra se incluye en la columna al menos tantas veces como pares de flechas se muestran. Para obtener una flecha doble o triple, tanto la suposición como la respuesta deben tener múltiplos de esa letra. Una pista roja también significa que la letra no está en la fila.
Naranja – Las pistas naranjas corresponden a una pista amarilla y roja, por lo que la letra está en la fila y la columna, pero no en este cuadrado. Los pares de flechas corresponden a las reglas para las pistas amarillas y rojas.
Blanco – Esta letra aparece en un cuadrado del tablero, pero no en esta fila o columna.
Negro – Esta letra no aparece en ninguna casilla del tablero.
Círculo azul – Si hace clic directamente en un cuadrado sin resolver y luego escribe una letra, aparecerá en un círculo azul. Esto se puede utilizar como una nota de recordatorio.
Uma palavra é resolvida se todas as letras forem verdes, mesmo que você não adivinhe a palavra inteira de uma vez.
Verde – Esta letra está no quadrado correto. Nesse caso, o próprio quadrado também fica verde. O objetivo é colorir todos os 21 quadrados de verde antes que as tentativas acabem.
Amarelo – Esta letra está na linha correta, mas não no quadrado correto. A letra é incluída na linha pelo menos tantas vezes quanto os pares de setas são mostrados. Para obter uma seta dupla ou tripla, tanto o palpite quanto a resposta precisam ter múltiplos dessa letra. Uma pista amarela também significa que a letra não está na coluna.
Vermelho –Esta letra está na coluna correta, mas não na correta Praça. A letra é incluída na coluna pelo menos tantas vezes quanto os pares de setas são mostrados. Para obter uma seta dupla ou tripla, tanto o palpite quanto a resposta precisam ter múltiplos dessa letra. Uma pista vermelha também significa que a letra não está na linha.
Laranja – As pistas laranja correspondem a uma pista amarela e vermelha, então a letra está na linha e na coluna, mas não neste quadrado. Os pares de setas correspondem às regras das pistas amarelas e vermelhas.
Branco – Esta letra aparece em um quadrado no tabuleiro, mas não nesta linha ou coluna.
Preto – Esta carta não aparece em nenhum quadrado do tabuleiro.
Círculo azul – Se você clicar diretamente em um quadrado não resolvido e digitar uma letra, ela aparecerá em um círculo azul. Isso pode ser usado como uma nota de lembrete.
Ein Wort gilt als gelöst, wenn alle Buchstaben gelöst (grün) sind, auch wenn es nicht selbst eingegeben wurde.
Grün – Dieser Buchstabe ist im richtigen Feld. In diesem Fall wird das Feld selbst ebenfalls grün eingefärbt. Ziel ist es, alle 21 Felder grün einzufärben, bevor die Versuche aufgebraucht sind.
Gelb – Dieser Buchstabe ist in der richtigen Reihe, aber nicht in diesem Feld. Der Buchstabe ist mindestens so oft enthalten, wie schwarze Pfeilpaare angezeigt werden. Dabei werden bereits gelöste Buchstaben mitgezählt. Um zwei oder drei Pfeilpaare zu erhalten muss ein Wort geraten werden, das den Buchstaben ebenso zwei bzw. drei Mal enthält. Ein gelber Hinweis bedeutet auch, dass der Buchstabe in der Spalte nicht enthalten ist.
Rot – Dieser Buchstabe ist in der richtigen Spalte, aber nicht in diesem Feld. Der Buchstabe ist mindestens so oft enthalten, wie weiße Pfeilpaare angezeigt werden, wie bei den gelben Hinweisen. Ein roter Hinweis bedeutet auch, dass der Buchstabe in der Zeile nicht enthalten ist.
Orange – Orange Hinweise entsprechen einem gelben und roten Hinweis, der Buchstabe ist also in Reihe und Spalte enthalten, aber nicht in diesem Feld. Die Pfeilpaare entsprechen denen bei gelben und roten Hinweisen.
Weiß – Dieser Buchstabe kommt in einem Feld vor, aber nicht in dieser Zeile oder Spalte.
Schwarz – Dieser Buchstabe kommt in gar keinem Feld vor.
Blauer Kreis – Klickt man direkt auf ein ungelöstes Feld und tippt dann einen Buchstaben ein, so erscheint er in einem blauen Kreis. Diese Funktion kann als Merkhilfe genutzt werden.
If you want to see the quick version of the rules that you're shown on startup, click here.
WHAT IS THIS?
Squardle is a word game based on the viral hit game Wordle by Josh Wardle. If you somehow have found your way here without knowing what Wordle is, you can play it
here , and I recommend doing so before
trying out Squardle. It you don't want to do that: Wordle is like the game Mastermind, only you're guessing five letter words instead of sequences of colors.
Squardle is a 2D Wordle variant, "Squared Wordle" if you will.
ISN'T WORDLE ALREADY IN 2D?
OK, sure. But in Squardle the goal of the game is to figure out a 5x5 grid with six words instead of the "1x5" solution in Wordle.
HOW DO I PLAY?
To play, type a five-letter word and press enter. You can use either the keyboard on your screen,
or a physical keyboard if you're playing on a computer. Your typed guess will appear in both a row and a column,
and each filled square will get a clue. The clues come in the form of colored squares. See below for their meanings.
You get 10 guesses to start with. The first five words you solve all the squares for give you one bonus guess each. Solving all six words wins you the game. Note that you don't have to use a guess on the specific word for it to be considered solved. Solved squares stay green, and making all of a word's letters green at any point during the game is enough to get the word's bonus guess.
To the left is a screenshot from a game that's nearly over. On that board it looks like the final guess should be CUBIC to turn the remaining two gray squares green and win!
HOW DO I CHANGE WHERE I ENTER MY GUESS?
You don't. The rows and columns will be cycled through automatically, each guess moving the next guess to the next row and
column. If you've already found all green letters for both that row and column it will skip over them for the rest
of the game. The two arrows outside the grid indicate where your next guess will be entered.
In Weekly Squardle the rule for what positions are skipped is slightly modified.
WAIT, WHAT'S WEEKLY SQUARDLE?
It's an (even) harder game mode for Squardle where the four holes on the board are removed. A new Weekly Squardle board released each Sunday. I strongly advise learning how to play normal Squardle before attempting it.
If you already know how to play normal Squardle you can click here to see all the rule changes Weekly Squardle brings.
Weekly Squardle has the following rules changes:
● The four holes on the board are gone. This means that there are 10 words to solve.
● There are now 8 bonus guesses to collect. Why only 8? A final winning guess will always solve
at least both its row and column, so those two final winning words don't generate bonus guesses.
This is for the same reason the sixth word in daily/freeplay mode doesn't give a bonus guess: I wanted it possible to win
by the skin of your teeth, with 0 guesses remaining. Note that if your winning guess solves more than two words you
will still get bonus guesses for the "extra" solved words. This means that, assuming you win, you're always given a
constant number of bonus guesses for each game mode. So using fewer guesses to win in a game mode always gives you that many more
guesses remaining in the end.
● Weekly Squardle in English uses an expanded word list of possible
answers. Otherwise there simply aren't enough legal boards! All answers are of course still English words that would be legal in Scrabble; they're just picked from a
slightly longer list than Wordle's original list of answers that the normal Squardle boards use.
● As mentioned above, the cycling through of where to enter the next guess is slightly kinder:
If only a single row or column has more than one unsolved letters in it, you will always get to guess there. In other words,
if the board could be solved by guessing a single word, you will get to guess that word rather than sometimes
being forced to guess the letters in that word one at a time. The game mode Squardle 24 also uses this rule,
but this still can't make you enter a guess in the row/column of its single hole square.
I WANT TO PLAY MORE WEEKLY SQUARDLE! CAN I GET MORE THAN ONE BOARD A WEEK?
My Patreon supporters from the $5/month level get a login that gives access to a new
bonus weekly board in English every week.
This login also lets them play (or replay) all previously released bonus weekly boards,
including any bonus board that was released before they became a Patreon supporter.
One new bonus weekly boards is released every Wednesday, and there are then as many
released bonus weekly boards as the week number of the current Weekly Squardle!
If you can't or don't want to support me financially, that's totally fine! If you still want to play more boards that are like the Weekly Squardle, check out the game mode Squardle 24! It has 5x5 boards with a single hole square. It's a "freeplay mode", so you can play it as many times as you want! You find Squardle 24 by clicking "Other game modes" in the main menu.
WHAT DO THE COLORED SQUARES WITH LETTERS MEAN?
These are the colors of hints in Squardle:
Green – This letter is in the correct square. Finding a green square permanently turns the big square green as well. The goal of the game is to make all 21 squares in the grid green before you run out of guesses.
Yellow
– This letter is in the correct row, but not in the correct square.
Red
– This letter is in the correct column, but not in the correct square.
Orange
– Orange squares are the ones that would be both yellow and red.
So this letter appears both in the row and in the column, but not in this square. As with yellow and red clues,
the number of pairs of arrows pointing towards the row or column indicate that there are at least
this many of the orange clue's letter in the row or column.
White – This letter appears somewhere in the solved grid, but not in this row or column.
Black – This letter doesn't appear at all in the solved grid.
WHY DIDN'T I GET A DOUBLE ARROW? WHEN I LOOKED AT THE SOLUTION THE WORD HAD TWO OF A LETTER THAT I GOT A SINGLE ARROW CLUE FOR.
To get a double or triple arrow clue for a letter you must also make a guess that puts 2 or 3 copies of that letter in that row or column.
The number of arrow pairs pointing in opposite directions on the clue always indicate that there are at least that many of that letter in that
row or column. It doesn't say that there can't be more. So just like Wordle won't tell you that there should be more copies of a letter that you only
guessed a single copy of, Squardle won't either.
This means that it's possible for a single square in Squardle to have clues for the same letter and of the same color, but with a different number of arrows in the clues; you just had a different number of that letter in the guesses that gave you those clues.
Also note that the guess with multiples of a letter has to be made in the row or column that has multiples of that letter for you to get a hint with a double arrow. So it's not enough that only one of the repeated letters are in the row or column where the answer has two of that letter.
I understand that this rule is a bit confusing at first. But the alternative I tried first, where the clues for a row or column were more analogous to how it works in Wordle, proved to be even more confusing. Because with that system it was possible to get hints for the same letters that were placed in the same square but that still got different colors. Pretty much everyone thought that was a bug the first time they had it happen to them.
SO HOW CAN I TELL WHERE I'VE MADE A GUESS WITH REPEATING LETTERS?
There are two ways to tell what guess generated what hint:
WAIT, WHY WOULDN'T I BE PLAYING ON A 5x5 BOARD?
You might want to check out the option "Other game modes" in the main menu. Squardle XL has 6x6 boards
and Squardle XXL has 7x7 boards. There are also the game modes Squardle 24 and Squardle Speedrun.
WHY ISN'T THE BOARD CENTERED? CAN YOU CENTER THE BOARD FOR ME?
It's not centered because, uh... Because I didn't think to so when I first made the game?
Any change I make to the default now would upset a small but vocal subset of players.
But sure, you can center the board by adding "/center/" after "/squardle" in game's URL. Or by clicking here.
I WANT TO IGNORE SOME CLUES THAT ARE NO LONGER HELPFUL! CAN I GET SOME HELP WITH IGNORING THEM?
Sure! If you have the default settings you can click any small clue to fade it out slightly. Click it again to hide the
letter completely and shrink to a smaller square of its color. Click it a third time to bring it back up to full visibility.
In the example below, the yellow S clues have been faded out by the player to mark them as "found" as a green S
in the row is located. The white C clue has also been faded out, presumably because a green C was found elsewhere in the grid. The player will want to be able to see the faded clues though, as they tell them about letters that can't go in those columns and, for the C, row.
The green S clue and two black clues have been minimized to avoid screen clutter. The player will have to rely on the colors on the keyboard to see what letters have turned black.
There are also some options on the settings page to automatically hide or fade different types of hints.
I STILL KEEP MISSING HINTS. IS THERE A WAY TO HIGHLIGHT ALL HINTS AND NOTES WITH A SPECIFIC LETTER?
Yep! You can either right-click or long-press a key on the on-screen keyboard to get a magenta
outline around all hints with that letter. Any notes you've made about that letter will also turn magenta.
WHAT DO THE KEYBOARD'S COLORS MEAN?
The key thing to understand about the keys is that yellow, red, orange, and dark gray keys are giving information specifically
about your next guess.
Purple – This letter hasn't been guessed during this game.
Black – This letter has gotten at least one black clue on the board. As such it won't
appear anywhere in the solved grid.
Dark gray – Based on the hints on the board, this letter can neither be in the row nor
column you're currently guessing. If you've already solved either the row or the column where you're guessing, letters that can't appear in the unsolved word will turn gray even if the solved word has that letter in green.
Yellow – Based on the hints on the board, at least one copy of this letter still needs
to be found in the row. That is, if the max number of horizontal arrows on a hint you've found in this row is higher than the number of green squares for that letter, the key for that letter turns yellow.
Red – Based on the hints on the board, at least one copy of this letter still needs
to be found in the column.
Orange – Based on the hints on the board, at least one copy of this letter still
needs to be found in both the row and the column.
White – This letter doesn't fit any of the situations above. This means that the
letter could go in the row and/or the column you're currently guessing, but there's no clue
directly indicating that it must go there.
I PREFER THE OLD KEYBOARD, CAN YOU CHANGE IT BACK?
You can change it back yourself! There's a setting that lets you play using the old keyboard.
You can also disable only the dark gray keys or disable the yellow, red, and orange keys.
If the new color keys lack of arrows cause issues for you, either because you're color blind or because you don't want to have to remember what color means what direction, there's also an option to show the arrows on yellow, red, and orange keyboard keys.
WHY DOESN'T THE KEYBOARD SHOW GREEN LETTERS?
When asking for feedback trying to figure out how the colorful keyboard should function it became clear that the
players I asked had many different ideas for what felt intuitive to them for when exactly a key should become
green. So any choice I made for green keys would likely confuse a large portion of the players, and the gain in information
given by green keys wasn't all that big no matter how exactly they worked.
WHAT IF I KNOW WHAT LETTER A SQUARE SHOULD BE BUT IT'S NOT TIME TO ENTER A GUESS THERE YET?
That sounds like a great time to use the note tool. Click on any unsolved square to go into note taking mode. The square will get a blue circle and your keyboard will turn blue. Type the letter you want to remember for the square to finish the note. If you don't want to make a note, your can cancel editing it by clicking anywhere on the board. To remove or change a note, click it and use Backspace or press another letter instead. Notes will stay on the board until your solve their square or remove them.
BUT WHAT IF I'M NOT SURE ABOUT A SQUARE AND WANT TO MARK IT AS A GUESS?
Then make a note as described above but click the square with the note twice instead of once. Notes that are marked as guesses get a thick unfilled blue circle instead of the filled circle. You can also click an already made note twice to toggle the note's type between "certain" and "guess".
WAIT A MINUTE, WHO ARE YOU?
My name is Pelle or, on most places on the web, FurbyFubar. I run fubargames.se as a
place to put any game or puzzle related projects that I want to show off to the world.
for example. It's a series of really difficult puzzles that I spent loads of time designing and coding, so I would really appreciate getting to show it to some more people! Note that as it requires right-clicking, it's sadly not playable on mobile devices.
ARE YOU ASSOCIATED WITH WORDLE?
Nope, I'm just a fan of the game.
ARE YOU ASSOCIATED WITH THE NEW YORK TIMES?
No. Also, I'm holding out for the Microsoft acquisition.
WHY DOES THIS GAME EXIST?
Because I had the idea. I thought the quickest way of getting it to stop taking up space in my head was to make
it a reality, thus subjecting you to it. Now that I've poured several hundred hours into fixing bugs and adding
features to Squardle I no longer think that making it was the quickest way to get rid of the idea.
If anything, Squardle has more and more been taking over my life!
This is in no way a complaint by the way! Being able to design games that lots of people play and care about is
pretty much all I ever wished for with my game design.
DOES THIS SITE USE COOKIES?
Yes, the site uses cookies to remember your board states, your played boards and other gameplay related things.
It also uses third party cookies from Google Analytics to be able to get statistics about site usage and gameplay.
I GOT THIS REALLY OBSCURE WORD ON MY BOARD!
WHY DON'T YOU REMOVE THOSE?
Daily and Freeplay Squardle currently uses word lists for possible answers and allowed guesses based on the lists
Wordle originally used. The list of possible answers is shorter than the list of allowed guesses specifically to
remove the most obscure words. So please don't blame me for the answers list including words like SYNOD and OVOID.
Or do blame me, but understand that I don't feel all that responsible for that decision.
That said, for Weekly Squardle I have had to expand the list of answers.
To still not be put in a position where I had to pick what words are considered the most
well-known myself I coded up this
word sorter.
So the words in Weekly Squardle were in effect voted on by the users on that page. If you want to help out for
future updates you can drag the most common words to the top and place any word you didn't know was a word below
the red line. Make sure you're not blocking Google Analytics or your sorting data won't be recorded.
I GOT A BOARD WITH A PROPER NOUN!
WHY DON'T YOU REMOVE THOSE?
All the English (and Swedish) words that are in the word list for answers or
guesses have definitions that aren't proper nouns. So the proper nouns have some other definition than the
one for the proper noun. So they can be written, (at least according to some dictionaries), without a starting
capital letter. For example: To ralph is an onomatopoeia for vomiting, you can eat off of fine china,
you can put english on the cue ball in pool, and something can peter out.
For Spanish, Portuguese, and German it's tricker. I've not found great word lists to use. I've tried to remove
them from the list of answers based on data from my word
sorting site ,
but how well that's gone depends on how many sorters I get for that language. German is especially tricky as all
German nouns start with a capital letter; their dictionaries seem to straight up include proper nouns.
WHY DOES THE SHARE FUNCTION SHOW MY GAME AFTER MY FIRST CORRECT GUESS WHEN I WIN? I SOLVED ALL THE SQUARES!
Because having every winning shared board be the same grid of all green squares felt boring.
Making it more colorful and actually containing some info about your game seemed like a good
idea, both to have it carry more information about your game, and to make anyone seeing the
squares more interested in trying the game out themselves.
HOW DO BONUS GUESSES WORK? I THINK I GOT ROBBED OF A BONUS GUESS!
Freeplay, daily, and speedrun boards have 5 bonus guesses to collect.
That's one fewer than the number of words to solve. Why? Because I wanted it possible to win with 0 guesses remaining
as I thought that would feel more dramatic than always having at least 1 guess remaining if you won. So the final
word solved doesn't give a bonus guess as you just won the game and won't need it. Note that this isn't the
same as saying that your final guess doesn't give bonus guesses! If your final guess solves more
words than just the sixth on the board, the first five still give bonus guesses. This
means that, assuming you win the board, using fewer total guesses to win always gives that many more guesses remaining.
Weekly boards have 8 bonus guesses to collect. That's two fewer than the number of words to solve,
so what gives here? The reason is that solving the final square on the weekly board will always solve at a minimum two words;
its row and its column. So for the same reason as for daily/freeplay, those two words don't give bonus guesses either.
Boards for Squardle 24, Squardle XL, and Squardle XXL all have 8 words to solve.
As they have no guarantee that the winning guess solves more than a single word they all have 7 bonus guesses to collect.
Small aside, (because this FAQ apparently isn't long enough already): If I was first designing Squardle today,
I would make it so that all solved words give bonus guesses. I underestimated both how much fun it is to
get bonus guesses and how confusing the exception(s) would become. That said, it's sadly a bit too late to
change this now. Any change would cause new confusion and also make it more difficult to compare your scores from
before and after such a change. Remember: Any change that's not optional will upset a subset of my players.
Making this type of change an optional setting wouldn't make sense though, as that would make comparing
scores with other players extremely confusing.
WHY GIVE BONUS GUESSES AT ALL? COULDN'T YOU START THE PLAYER WITH MORE GUESSES INSTEAD?
This has to do with something that annoyed me in
Dordle
and the other multi-word variants of Wordle I had played before designing Squardle: In those games it's possible to have
figured out the solution to all the words but not have enough guesses left to guess them.
This is a feel-bad moment I wanted to avoid in Squardle, so making it so that a correct guess can't lose
the game made sense. Plus, it's fun to get bonus guesses, especially when you get multiple bonus
guesses in a single move!
Secret Squardle trivia time! Squardle is almost more a Dordle-variant than it is a Wordle-variant!
The reason you guess a row and a column at the same time in Squardle directly inspired by Dordle.
Sure, the reason for me wanting it to work that way was also to make it so that fewer guesses
could populate the grid with hints. This speeds up the game a lot. The reason for greened
squares staying green in Squardle was in response to me not liking how that worked in Dordle,
as typing in an already fully greened word just felt like busywork. That said, I very much like Dordle,
and if you haven't tried it you should go play it!
CAN I PLACE SQUARDLE ON THE HOME SCREEN OF MY PHONE?
Sure, it'll even get its
own snazzy icon! First make sure your address bar doesn't have a board code at the end. If it does, go to
https://fubargames.se/squardle/ instead. That way you're not
bookmarking the link to a specific board.
On Android phones or tablets: If your home screen's locked you need to first unlock it: Long press the home screen > Settings > Toggle "Lock Home screen" off. Then, if your standard browser is Samsung Internet or Chrome, tap the three dots icon in the top right corner, then select the option "Add to Home Screen". If you don't see such an option it's probably because you're on the page in some other app, like Facebook or Twitter. Then instead tap the three dots icon (or however the menu button looks in the app you're using) and select the option "Open in [whatever browser you've set as your default]". If that browser's Samsung Internet or Chrome, just follow the steps above. If not, then I'm going to hope you're tech savvy enough to figure this out yourself? If not, you can probably become a more tech savvy person by typing "[browser name] add web page to home screen" into Google.
On an iPhone or iPad: Tap the icon with a right-pointing arrow coming out of a box along the top of the Safari window to open a drop-down menu. Then select "Add to Home Screen". (At least those are the instructions I found by Googling.)
CAN I BACKUP MY GAME DATA? IS THERE A WAY TO TRANSFER MY STATS TO A NEW PHONE OR COMPUTER?
You can export and import cookie data using the tools on the settings page. The cookie data is exported as a string of
text that you can save in a document of e-mail to yourself. The import feature lets you overwrite all your
Squardle game data with the data from the export. If you only use the export function as a way to backup your stats you
don't have to use the import function unless something happens to your cookies. If you've bought a new computer or mobile
device you can export your stats from the old device and import them onto your new device. Note that this only copies
your data from one device to the other — it doesn't link the game devices as a shared account. So this sort of
transfer is only viable as a one time fix if you intend to stop playing on your old device.
Technically you could end each gaming session by exporting your stats and e-mail yourself the resulting text string
to have access to it on any other device(s) you play on. If you then also remember to start each play session
after swapping device by importing your latest text string, then yes, this system could keep multiple devices in sync.
But honestly, that seems like way more work than manually adding together your listed stats between devices if you want to find
out your average guesses remaining for all devices you play on.
SO WHY CAN'T I JUST LOG IN TO A SERVER THAT KEEPS MY DATA IN ONE ACCOUNT?
Honestly, because I don't know enough database programming to make that happen. I'd either have to get a whole new skill set
or take on outside help to code such a feature.
CAN I CONTACT YOU WITH SUGGESTIONS, BUG REPORTS, OR KIND WORDS?
Sure thing! I'd love to hear from you, and I'm in the sweet spot of popularity where I actually have time to read
most of the e-mails I'm sent who're written by actual humans.
For bug reports:
If it's a bug regarding missing double or triple arrows, first scroll up and read the part entitled
"Why didn't I get a double arrow?". If it's a bug regarding not getting a bonus guess, scroll up to
"How do bonus guesses work?".
For other bugs, first check that you're on the current version of Squardle, as described at the top of
the settings page. If the problem is something you can take a
screenshot of, make sure you include one. If the bug might in some way relate to your cookies, use the export feature on
the settings page and include the text string from the export with your bug report — that can greatly
help me with reproducing many bugs.
For suggestions:
If your suggestion is along the lines of "I can help you run ads on your site and make you big $$$!",
let me save both of us some time by saying that I'm not interested. The same goes for if you want to
buy my domain name.
If you still want to contact me, the easiest way to do so is to send me an e-mail
at pellen@gmail.com.
I also mod reddit.com/r/squardle/ so if you make a post there I'm likely to respond.
I'm @FubarGames on both Twitter, (fine "X"), and run the page FubarGames on Facebook. But Twitter and Facebook
has made it infuriatingly difficult for me to see any new DMs requests there, so neither are a good way to contact
me if you want a quick response.
You can of course also contact me on my Patreon
page as well.
YOU HAVE A PATREON?
Yep! My Patreon supporters are the reason I can keep updating this game! They're also why the game is
free from ads. Supporters from the $5/month tier and up get access to bonus weekly boards and some
other perks, such as early access to upcoming features. It's also possible to become a free Patreon member
to get notified about when I post there, as not all posts are supporter exclusive.
I also take donations through PayPal if one time payments are more your jam, though that doesn't come with any perks other than my gratitude and a listing on the supporters page.
Click here or on the heart icon at the top right of the screen for more info about both my Patreon and PayPal!
IS THIS GAME, ITS GRAPHICS AND CODE © 2022–2024 by FUBAR GAMES?
Yes. OK, strictly speaking that's not a frequently asked question, but I thought I should mention it.
THIS GAME MAKES MY BRAIN HURT!
That's not a question.
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Squardle 24 is a game mode that has 24 squares to solve on a 5x5 board. You start with 9 guesses.
The single hole on the board will be randomly placed in one of the 5 squares on the diagonal where your entered guesses could overlap. Note that the board only has 8 words, all of length 5. So the adjacent squares in the row or column with the hole do not (necessarily) form any words. The cycle determining where you enter your guess will skip the position with the hole.
Squardle 24 doesn't store any stats. It is freeplay, so you can play it as much as you want. If you want to share a specific board with someone else, you can do so by clicking the Squardle logo after starting the game. This moves you to "screenshot mode" before the game's over and lets you see the URL to that board.
⚠️ Ich habe mein Bestes getan, um alle unangemessenen Wörter aus der Liste der möglichen Antworten zu entfernen. Es besteht jedoch immer noch die Gefahr, dass ein paar durchgerutscht sind, da ich nicht über genügend Sortierdaten für die längeren deutschen Wörter verfüge. Seien Sie sich also bewusst, dass ein beleidigendes oder beleidigendes Wort durchgerutscht ist und als Antwort angezeigt wird, was keine Absicht ist. Das Fehlen von Sortierdaten kann auch dazu führen, dass einige wirklich unklare Wörter auftauchen, was diese Spielmodi etwas schwieriger macht als beabsichtigt.
tun.
⚠️ Este modo de jogo ainda pode conter respostas inadequadas. Embora eu tenha tentado o meu melhor para remover palavrões e calúnias, ainda não tenho dados suficientes de classificação de palavras para palavras mais longas para ter certeza de que a lista de respostas não inclui palavras ofensivas. As respostas também podem incluir palavras que não são muito conhecidas. Peço desculpas por isso!
. Obrigado!
⚠️ Es posible que este modo de juego aún contenga respuestas inapropiadas. Si bien he hecho todo lo posible para eliminar malas palabras e insultos, todavía no tengo suficientes datos de clasificación de palabras para las palabras más largas para asegurarme de que la lista de respuestas no incluya palabras ofensivas. Las respuestas también pueden incluir palabras que no sean muy conocidas. ¡Me disculpo por esto!
. ¡Gracias!
⚠️ Este modo de jogo ainda pode conter respostas inadequadas. Embora eu tenha tentado o meu melhor para remover palavrões e calúnias, ainda não tenho dados suficientes de classificação de palavras para palavras mais longas para ter certeza de que a lista de respostas não inclui palavras ofensivas. As respostas também podem incluir palavras que não são muito conhecidas. Peço desculpas por isso!
. Obrigado!
⚠️ Es posible que este modo de juego aún contenga respuestas inapropiadas. Si bien he hecho todo lo posible para eliminar malas palabras e insultos, todavía no tengo suficientes datos de clasificación de palabras para las palabras más largas para asegurarme de que la lista de respuestas no incluya palabras ofensivas. Las respuestas también pueden incluir palabras que no sean muy conocidas. ¡Me disculpo por esto!
. ¡Gracias!
My Patreon supporters from the $5/month tier have access to a bonus weekly Squardle boards in English.
Every Wednesday there's a new bonus board released, and they are then as many bonus boards as the current number on the Weekly Squardle.
Just like the regular weekly Squardle boards the bonus boards will be 5x5 grids without the four holes of daily of freeplay Squardle. Unlike the regular weekly boards, the bonus boards can be played at any time. So as a supporter you'll get access to all of the bonus boards that have been released so far.
If you want to, you can replay bonus boards you've already played, though of course the results of replaying a board won't count towards your stats. The stats for bonus weekly boards are combined with the stats for your regular weekly boards.
The number of 5x5 weekly boards without holes that only use words in the word list of normally allowed answers is very limited, and the number of boards
with the current extended word list for (non-bonus) weekly boards is still not all that long. As I really don't want a subscriber only feature to be taking away content
from anyone else, the bonus boards will therefore always include at least some words that are either regular plurals and/or some other word the users of my
word sorting site
have deemed common enough to make the bonus list, yet not be so totally obscure as to feel unfair.
This change of word list could either make the boards easier since there will be an (almost) guaranteed S in the right column or bottom row, or much harder since there might be harder words lurking in the solution.
Due to the time consuming nature of setting up the extended word lists and calculating the 5x5 boards I currently don't have plans to add bonus boards for any other language than English. That said, if bonus boards in other languages this is something that would make you want to become a supporter: Let me know and we'll see what I can do!
If you're already a Patreon supporter I should have already sent you your login information in a private message on Patreon. New patrons will get a message with their login information as quickly as I can after their first payment. But keep in mind that this is sadly not an automated process, so it won't happen the moment you sign up. On the other hand, once you have your login info you will be able to play all the bonus boards that have been released so far.
Click here for information about how to become a Patreon supporter, or to read about the other perks my supporters get.
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