If you’re reaching the point where a daily flood of yellow, green and black squares are becoming rather irritable, then a NSFW version of the popular word guessing game Wordle – known as Sweardle – may be up your street.
While there are similarities to the original challenge set up by New York Times puzzle fan Josh Wardle (the pun is definitely intended), there are a few changes – the main one being that every secret word a user needs to guess is a swear word.
Cheery stuff.
Freelance writer Stuart Houghton unveiled the sweary version on Twitter earlier this month, writing: “*sigh* If you want something doing you have to do it yourself…”
He later went on to add: “Wordle is great but if, like me, you are incredibly immature, you might prefer sweardle.glitch.me which is *also* an act of love.
“The love of profanity.”
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Previous words in the game include ‘turd’, ‘poop’, ‘crap’ and ‘fart’, to give you an idea.
And once a word has been guessed correctly, we are told: “I’m sure your mother will be very proud.”
*sigh* If you want something doing you have to do it yourself... Introducing SWEARDLE - the 4 letter word game https://t.co/wxXZGUmR5G— Stuart Houghton in normal human form (@Stuart Houghton in normal human form) 1641308160
As well as the original another sweary site with the same premise can be found at sweardle.com.
Now that a fair amount of people have stumbled upon the naughtier take on the word game, people have taken to Twitter to express their delight at the cheeky puzzle – and how easier it is to guess four-letter curse words than ‘clean’ five-letter words:
Very pleasing. https://t.co/UCgTw9IOhK— Jen '100% Skyrim trash' Williams (@Jen '100% Skyrim trash' Williams) 1641648402
Can confirm SWEARDLE is more fun than a gentleman my age should have, but I will not be posting any of my solutions… https://t.co/K7iKVC6unC— Steve Christey Coley, BS (@Steve Christey Coley, BS) 1641705773
Now THIS is innovation https://t.co/Tmlujd9h2b— Mike Assenti (@Mike Assenti) 1641742484
YASSSSSSSS! 🤬🤘 https://t.co/L6SSkQ6A5M— 👩💻🧙♀️ Jess "GirlGerms" Dodson 💉💉💉 (@👩💻🧙♀️ Jess "GirlGerms" Dodson 💉💉💉) 1641764082
@stuarthoughton This is amazing. https://t.co/5hcRLWxyZU— anildash (@anildash) 1641602913
Sweary Wordle. Scots should be natural champions at this. Sweardle day 11 2/4 🟩⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://t.co/6FyzmpmH9R— Alan Ferrier (@Alan Ferrier) 1642491006
If you like Wordle, here’s Sweardle. Like Wordle, but for 4 letter swear words 🤷🏻♀️ https://t.co/XofskdT7LL— Anna Harding (@Anna Harding) 1642150636
#sweardle is better than #wordle 🤣 https://t.co/UqMHEbvRBN— Lynsey Poucher (@Lynsey Poucher) 1642086340
Sweardle day 8 2/4 🟨🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Thanks for drawing my attention to this @BeffernieBlack ! https://t.co/s8o0RHXzns— Andy Pryor CDG, CSA (@Andy Pryor CDG, CSA) 1642244109
Sweardle day 7 4/4 ⬛🟩⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://t.co/GEHVqONpuh— Richard K Herring (@Richard K Herring) 1642153435
I feel like I was born for this game. Sweardle day 9 2/4 🟨🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://t.co/kcXvSoF6YN https://t.co/fQ7zCQWhcG— Kenny Williams (@Kenny Williams) 1642369076
It’s not the only Wordle parody to surface in recent weeks, as you can also have a go at Absurdle, where the game is “actively trying to avoid giving you the answer” and may end up “changing the secret word if need be”.