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If you're the type to enjoy some friendly competition and just sending your Wordle score to your dad and friends first thing in the morning isn’t enough, you can try the newest addition to the Wordle copycat family: WeWordle. With WeWordle, you can compete against others online, much like the classic days of Words with Friends, but with the added pressure of a 15-second timer for each turn.
Another Wordle clone?
There have been countless Wordle clones or tributes, some more fun than others, and honestly, it all comes down to personal preference. You’ve got Worldle for geography buffs (nice work), Quordle if you find Wordle too easy, Taylordle if you think Taylor Swift deserves a PhD, and my favorite, Bardle, the Shakespeare-themed one.
Much like the classic Wordle, you have six attempts to guess a five-letter word. The rules are the same: if you get a letter in the correct spot, it turns green; if it's in the wrong spot, it turns yellow; and if the letter is incorrect, it turns gray.
What sets this version apart is that you take turns with your opponent, meaning you only get three guesses. You can see their guesses and use that information to your advantage. You either win, lose, or forfeit by giving up or running out of time.
The pros and cons of WeWordle
The main advantages of WeWordle are that, for dedicated Wordle fans, you can keep playing against random players again and again. You can also share a link with a friend or partner to play together. It’s like yelling “GO!” at your significant other and playing Wordle at the same time on separate phones, but now you’re on the same board with the same game.
What some might consider either a pro or a con is that because you’re working on the same puzzle, if one person uncovers a letter, you can use that information for your next turn. This can feel like teamwork, or it might make you feel pressured to solve it in one go so your own progress isn't used against you.
The biggest downside of this game, for me, is the time limit. I either play Wordle super fast or agonizingly slow, with no middle ground. If I don’t solve it during my morning coffee, I could spend hours obsessing over odd vowel combinations while walking the dog or dropping the kids off at school. With regular Wordle, I almost never lose.
But in WeWordle, fifteen seconds is far too little time for me, and the ticking timer messes with my brain until it stops working completely. Letters just don’t connect. Ideas don’t form. I’m terrible at WeWordle, and like any frustrated, overworked millennial, I dislike things I can’t win, so I vow to never play WeWordle again—except just one more time, really quickly, to see if I can win this round.
Nope, I lost. I hate it.
