The furious game on the internet Wordle, the same one that Josh Wardle created at the end of 2021 for his girlfriend to have fun during the pandemic and that quickly gathered a million users, It has its Argentine version.
Boludle visually resembles the popular online game, although it gives it an indigenous touch by adding words from the lunfardo, such as “cheto”, “bardo”, “morfi” or “garca”. His open source software It also enables its implementation with other themes.
Like Wordle, this Argentine game indicates if we hit the location of a letter by marking the box in green; if that letter is in the word, but in another location, painting the box yellow; or using the color gray if the letter does not correspond to the word of the day.
By sharing the mechanics of the original puzzle you will have to guess the keyword, 5 letters, in only six attempts.
Like the hobby created by Josh Wardle, the Boludle site is updated once a day, free, and has a minimalist interface.
And bet on the viralization on Twitter to spread its presence: it is possible to share our success to guess the word of the day showing the drawing formed by the successes of each attempt, but without revealing the word in question.
The viral game that bought New York Times
Wordle is the game that has become fashionable since, in October 2021. Josh Wardle its creator, made public this entertainment he created for his girlfriend during quarantine.
“Last year, my partner and I became fond of crosswords and word games and I wanted a game that we could play every morning as part of our routine,” Wardle explained earlier this year, when the game went viral.
For Wardle, the fact that the challenge is daily (it’s one word per day and that’s it), that it is brief and that it has no advertising is part of the key to its success.
On that occasion, he shared it with his family on WhatsApp before opening it to the public and the result was a complete success: in January it already had 300,000 daily users.
That fury that generated in social networks caught the attention of the prestigious newspaper New York Times that paid $1,000,000 in order to increase their subscribers.
Before the appearance of Boludle, the Colombian Daniel Rodriguez was commissioned to create first version entirely in Spanish an alternative for geography lovers and a version in which you compete against other people in real time.
The same thing happened with the clones: games that emerged with slight modifications of the original, but with the same spirit.
Variants range from direct copies (often without Wordle’s one game per day limit and with additional difficulty options) to versions in other languages, including Mandarin Chinese. There are also thematic versions, which include insults, queer culture and even with elements of Pokémon.
There are also really weird options, like Letterle , which asks you to guess a single letter; Absurdle, who describes himself as “Adversarial Wordle”, and word.rodeo which allows you to create custom challenges for a friend.
While, Numble challenges players to reverse engineer a mathematical equation, and Quordle where you can try yourself in four Wordle games at once. Play Four from Merriam-Webster, is a twist on mini-crossword puzzles that offers a daily solution.