Hordle

The game, not the village

Hordle is also a village in the New Forest in Hampshire, England, so searches for the meaning of the word often land there. The game Hordle, by legboot, is a joke on Wordle where every guess is meant to be a spelling of the word horse.

How the joke works

The board looks like Wordle and the colors mean the same thing. The difference is the word list. Instead of normal five letter words, the game expects odd ways of writing horse, and the tiles tell you how close each spelling is to today's version.

• Say each guess out loud. If it still sounds like horse, it is a fair try.
• Swap one letter at a time. A green tile tells you that part of the spelling is right.
• Share the result. Half the fun is showing friends the spelling of the day.

Hordle and Horsle

Horsle is a cousin of this game where the answer is always the plain word HORSE. Hordle asks for a different horse spelling each day, so it takes a little more thought.