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The 50 most popular -dle games

Wordle set off a whole genre of daily browser puzzles, the "-dle" games, and there are now hundreds. So which ones are actually played the most? Here are the top 50, ranked, from the household giants down to the biggest independent games. We are upfront about how we ranked them, and what the data can and cannot tell you.

The giants

#1 to 10

The household names nearly everyone has played, plus the biggest games in the genre. The very top run inside The New York Times, Merriam-Webster and LinkedIn, so their exact traffic cannot be measured separately, but nothing outranks them.

  1. 1 Wordle word
  2. 2 Connections word
  3. 3 Spelling Bee word
  4. 4 Strands word
  5. 5 Quordle word
  6. 6 Octordle word
  7. 7 Queens logic
  8. 8 Worldle geography
  9. 9 Globle geography
  10. 10 Tango logic

Major hits

#11 to 25

Independent games pulling well over a million visits a month on their own sites.

  1. 11 Waffle word
  2. 12 Travle geography
  3. 13 Framed movies & tv
  4. 14 Squaredle word
  5. 15 Contexto word
  6. 16 Who Are Ya? sports
  7. 17 Spotle music
  8. 18 Pinpoint trivia
  9. 19 Metazooa other
  10. 20 Bandle music
  11. 21 Loldle video games
  12. 22 Pokedoku video games
  13. 23 Nerdle math
  14. 24 Murdle other
  15. 25 GeoGrid geography

Very popular

#26 to 40

Hundreds of thousands of players every month. Smaller than the breakout hits, but a firm part of the daily rotation.

  1. 26 TimeGuessr geography
  2. 27 Conexo word
  3. 28 Duotrigordle word
  4. 29 Pokedle video games
  5. 30 Globle: Capitals geography
  6. 31 Flagle geography
  7. 32 Minute Cryptic word
  8. 33 FoodGuessr geography
  9. 34 Cine2Nerdle movies & tv
  10. 35 Sedecordle word
  11. 36 Semantle word
  12. 37 Redactle trivia
  13. 38 WhereTaken geography
  14. 39 7 Little Words word
  15. 40 Mathler math

Popular

#41 to 50

Rounding out the 50 most-played. Well-known games with a steady daily following.

  1. 41 Google Feud trivia
  2. 42 Cemantle word
  3. 43 Metaflora other
  4. 44 Squareword word
  5. 45 GuessThe.Game video games
  6. 46 Heardle Daily music
  7. 47 Actorle movies & tv
  8. 48 Gamedle video games
  9. 49 Poeltl sports
  10. 50 Tradle geography

Frequently asked

What is the most popular -dle game?

Wordle, by a wide margin. It started the genre and runs inside The New York Times. Connections (also NYT) is the clear number two. Because both live on the NYT site, their exact individual traffic cannot be measured, but no other game comes close.

What is the most popular Wordle alternative?

Among games on their own websites, the geography game Worldle is the biggest, followed by Globle, Waffle, Squaredle, Framed and Contexto, each pulling several million visits a month.

How is the ranking decided?

We use SimilarWeb monthly-visit estimates (May 2026) for every game on its own domain, and place the publisher-hosted giants (Wordle, Connections, Quordle and the LinkedIn games) by reputation and play counts, since their traffic cannot be isolated. The order is a best estimate; the set of 50 is firmer than the exact positions.

How often is this updated?

We refresh it periodically as the data moves. We are also building our own first-party measure, the games Seekdle players actually open most, which will sharpen the ranking over time.

This is the top 50 of a much bigger genre. Browse all 1000 games, see our games like Wordle guide, or jump into a category from the sidebar.