Changelog
Site news and updates, newest first.
August 13, 2026 — Don't Wordle grew a giraffe
Don't Wordle now keeps a giraffe beside the board, and every turn you survive grows its neck one step — last long enough and it towers over the page. Its face tells the story of your run: smiling while escape routes are plentiful, sweating once the legal-word count turns red, dizzy the moment the answer catches you, star-eyed on a new personal best. A leafy branch hangs at your record height; grow past it and the giraffe munches the leaves. Tap the giraffe any time for a kid-friendly explainer.
The numbers joined the fun too: the legal-guess counter now rolls slot-machine style after every reveal, and the board starts at five rows, growing one at a time — a quiet reminder that lasting long, not solving fast, is the whole game. When a run ends, a new Save card button draws a postcard: your survived turns, the words-left trail as coloured chips, the giraffe at its final height, and a scan-to-play stamp that brings friends straight to the game. Both Unlimited and Daily got everything today, and cards never reveal the hidden answer.
August 13, 2026 — The Arena Cup: a tournament with a referee
New: The Arena Cup, a twice-weekly Wordle tournament. Every Wednesday and Saturday at 12:00 UTC the tables open for 24 hours; everyone races the same words at official tables, with a free 20-round Tournament Pass per event. Round score is 7 − guesses plus a speed bonus, Wednesday + Saturday together decide the weekly crown, and each week's top three join a permanent Champions Wall.
The Arena plays fair by construction: unlike private rooms, an arena table's hidden word never leaves the server — a referee checks every guess, computes the colors and times every solve on its own clock. Sign in with Google to hold a pass and a ranked handle (an initials-plus-surname pick like "J.D. Vance" — your real name and photo are never shown, ever); guests can try three practice rounds per visit.
August 13, 2026 — Nerdle: the math side of the site
New game family: Nerdle. A hidden eight-tile calculation — digits, operators and one equals sign — and six guesses to reconstruct it, with the familiar green / yellow / grey clues on every tile. Each guess must itself be a true equation, and the rules are deliberately flexible: order of operations applies, leading zeros are legal probes, and either side of the "=" may hold a full expression. The board does the arithmetic with you — tiles render × and ÷ properly, an unbalanced guess tells you what each side actually equals, and zero-led probes come with a reminder that the hidden answer never writes numbers that way.
It ships both ways from day one: Unlimited deals endless fresh equations, while Nerdle Daily publishes one shared calculation per day with its own calendar streak, countdown and spoiler-free share grid. Statistics for both live in the in-game panel and on My Stats, and ride the same backup and Drive sync as everything else.
August 12, 2026 — Every themed pack is now its own little world
Travel Wordle's passport started an idea: solving words should fill something. Today the other themed packs each got their own world to fill:
- Football Wordle is a dressing room — every word you solve signs a player and hangs their kit on the wall. The shirt number is the word's letter count; tap any unsigned shirt to play that word.
- Foodle is a diner menu — dishes come in courses, the price is the number of letters, and every dish you solve is marked "tasted". Order any mystery dish to play it.
- Birthday Party is a gift table — every word is a wrapped present with its letter count on the sticker. Solve it and the gift opens in full party colors.
- Disney Wordle is a wishing sky — every hidden name is a dark star above the castle. Tap a star to wish on it; solve the name and the wish comes true with a golden glow.
The rules never change: words stay hidden until you solve them, you can jump to any unsolved word whenever you like, and filling the whole world earns its trophy.
One more thing — when you finish a word in any game, you can now send your result or a friendly challenge straight to WhatsApp, Messenger, X, Facebook, Telegram, LinkedIn or email.
August 11, 2026 — Birthday Wordle is now a number game
Birthday Wordle has been reborn as something genuinely new: instead of party words, you now guess a famous person's birthday — eight digits, MM/DD/YYYY, eight tries. Digits score like Wordle letters (green, yellow, grey), and every guess adds a too high / too low hint, so you squeeze the timeline from both ends. Solve it and you meet the person behind the date with a short biography.
There's a Daily with a shared puzzle and calendar streak, an Unlimited mode with endless birthdays, an optional hard mode, and separate statistics for each. Yesterday's party-word pack didn't leave — it moved to the topics catalog as Birthday Party.
And the family twist: create a puzzle from a real birthday — any year, no celebrity required — with a secret message that appears only when it's solved. Send the private link or print the QR code into the card.
August 10, 2026 — A smarter game switcher, two new themed wordles and a travel passport
Every game page now shares the same two-part switcher: a compact 1 · 2 · 4 · 8 · 16 · 32 boards dial on the multi-board pages (yes, "1" is classic Wordle), and an All games menu that looks identical everywhere — so you can hop from Xordle to 32 boards and back without ever hitting a dead end.
Two new themed packs join the shelf: Disney Wordle — a fan-made cast list from OLAF to RAPUNZEL — and Birthday Wordle, which comes with a shortcut for the real birthday magic: building a personal Wordle for the birthday person and sending it as the card.
And Travel Wordle now keeps its progress in a passport: every solved word inks a stamp, and a full passport earns the trophy.
August 10, 2026 — Seven new games: big board walls, Xordle, Hangman and themed wordles
The multi-board family grows two sizes: Sedecordle puts sixteen boards under one keyboard (21 guesses), and Duotrigordle goes all the way to thirty-two (37 guesses) — with a keyboard that stays pinned to the bottom of the screen while you scroll the wall. Both keep their own stats and streaks next to Dordle, Quordle and Octordle.
Two brand-new ways to play, too. Xordle hides two secret words in a single board — they never share a letter, every clue is the best of both, and you have nine rows to untangle them. And Hangman Unlimited brings the schoolyard classic to the site: one hidden word, six wrong guesses, endless rounds.
Finally, three themed wordle packs with trophies to earn: Foodle (every answer is food), Football Wordle (both footballs — corners and touchdowns) and Travel Wordle (visa to itinerary). All seven games record to My Stats and ride your backup and Drive sync.
August 8, 2026 — Today's puzzles at a glance, friend challenges and printable QR codes
The homepage now shows a Today's puzzles strip under the board: all four daily modes — Daily, Quordle Sequence, Hurdle and Don't Wordle — with a check for the ones you've finished and a flame showing your Daily streak (hover or tap it for the details). Come back tomorrow and collect all four again.
Beat a word in unlimited mode? A new Challenge a friend button copies a ready-to-send message with a private link to that exact word. And when you finish a friend's custom challenge, a Make one to send back button keeps the duel going. QR codes on the create page can now also be printed as a classroom-ready handout sheet.
August 8, 2026 — QR code sharing and a classroom full-screen mode
Custom challenges built on Create Your Own Wordle now come with a scannable QR code next to the share link — open it on a phone in one scan, or download it as a PNG for handouts. A new Full screen button blows the code up to fill the whole display, made for teachers projecting a challenge to the classroom: students scan the board and play on their own devices.
Multiplayer lobbies get the same treatment: a QR button beside the invite link so friends in the room join by pointing their camera at your screen — no typing a code.
Under the hood, the site now records anonymous gameplay events (game started, won or lost, shared) so we can see which modes people enjoy and improve them. As always, nothing personal: your stats and streaks stay in your browser.
August 4, 2026 — Regional English, more word lengths and reviewed Kids lists
Four carefully separated alternatives to the US list are now live. Wordle UK Unlimited uses British-compatible answers, Wordle Canada follows ESDB's dedicated Canadian spelling system and adds a small reviewed set of familiar Canadian vocabulary, Wordle Australia adds Australian spelling and a small reviewed set of familiar local vocabulary, and Wordle for Kids uses explicit age-appropriate answer allowlists for ages 8–12.
The dictionary selector now combines country and word length without adding another heavy toolbar. US, British, Canadian and Australian English support 4–11 letters; Kids currently supports only the separately reviewed 4-, 5- and 6-letter lists. Statistics are stored by both word list and word length, and all five editions appear separately on My Stats. The new records are included automatically in file backups and Google Drive sync.
The adult dictionaries now come from a pinned ESDB/SCOWL source at the conservative size 60, with a shared regional guess dictionary and country-specific answer selection. Source and copyright details are recorded on the About page and in the footer.
August 3, 2026 — More ways to play and better game statistics
Four new word-game formats are now live. Don't Wordle Unlimited reverses the usual goal: every clue becomes a rule, and your challenge is to avoid the hidden answer for as many legal turns as possible. Its new Daily challenge gives everyone the same answer each day and shares the exact countdown of legal words left. Dordle brings two simultaneous boards, Octordle expands the challenge to eight, and Daily Hurdle links five puzzles by carrying each solved answer into the next stage.
Don't Wordle, Dordle, Quordle, Octordle and Hurdle now have dedicated statistics panels with mode-appropriate streaks, averages and result distributions. The game toolbars were simplified so only genuinely related modes link to one another. We also introduced a shared answer-safety policy across every game: unsuitable terms can still be entered as guesses and receive normal tile feedback, but they are never selected as hidden answers.
The statistics page is now an all-games dashboard. Classic Unlimited and Daily records are tracked separately, every multi-board and reverse mode has its own summary and detailed chart, and Topic progress has a dedicated trophy section. Mode details open in a focused dialog without pulling you down the page. In-game statistics now always open the current mode — including Quordle Daily Sequence — with a direct link to compare the full collection.
July 30, 2026 — Quordle arrives
Two new ways to play: Quordle Unlimited puts four boards under one keyboard — every guess counts on all four, nine guesses to solve them all, endless rounds. And the Quordle Daily Sequence brings the ordered variant: one shared puzzle a day where each board unlocks only when the one before it falls, with built-in hints and a streak to defend. Quordle stats live alongside your Wordle stats and travel with backups and Google Drive sync. Quordle was created by Freddie Meyer and is published by Merriam-Webster — ours is an unofficial, fan-made version with its own words.
July 30, 2026 — Google Drive sync
Your progress can now follow you across devices. Open Settings → Data (or the new shortcut in the Statistics popup) and one click backs up your stats, streaks, trophies and topic progress to your own Google Drive — then restores them on any other device. The backup lives in a private app-data area of your Drive: nothing is ever stored on our servers, and you can delete it or revoke access at any time. If the two sides ever disagree, you choose which copy wins before anything is overwritten. File backups (export/import) keep working as before.
Alongside this, the header menu got a cleanup — lighter link styling — and the keyboard options moved into the Appearance tab so Settings stays three simple tabs.
July 27, 2026 — Wordle in 16 languages
The international games are back, rebuilt: unlimited Wordle in French, Spanish, Russian, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, German, Turkish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Polish, Greek, Czech and Ukrainian — each with its own dictionary and native keyboard layout, including AZERTY, QWERTZ, Greek and Cyrillic. Settings, sounds and statistics work everywhere.
We also finished a deep quality pass on the topic database: hundreds of factual, spelling and category fixes, and near-duplicate packs merged.
July 25, 2026 — A new home: wordleunlimited.me
We are retiring mywordle.org and moving to our new home, wordleunlimited.me. mywordle.org has been live since 2022, and we're grateful to every one of you who made it part of your daily routine over the years — thank you for the streaks, the shared grids and the word-pack ideas. This new site is where all of that continues.
Wordle Unlimited is a ground-up rebuild of the game you know: unlimited play with no daily wall, the shared Daily Challenge, word lengths from 4 to 11 letters, hundreds of themed topic packs, a custom puzzle builder, and new comfort settings — light and dark themes, a high-contrast color-blind-friendly mode, win sounds and a swappable keyboard layout.
We're also building translated (i18n) sub-pages so more players can enjoy the game in their own language. That work takes a while to do well — we'll announce each language here as it ships.
Have feedback on the new site? Use the Feedback link in the menu — we read every comment.