Xordle

Xordle is a sister game of Fibble’s, insomuch as it shares the same coder, one “keldor.” This is keldor’s own project, and it’s another superb variant that feels like it should be too hard, yet is definitely possible. This time you have to guess two completely different words in one single puzzle.

Neither word shares any letters, so the results you’re getting for each of your eight guesses (with a given starter word) apply to both at the same time. It’s about trying to eliminate things in the fewest moves possible.

Clearly you’re getting a lot of conflicting information, but you just have to be defiant, pursue a word hard, and once you’ve successfully found one, you’ve then got abundant clues for the second. Anything above which contradicts the first correct word is now vital information, along with the elimination of all five of those letters.

The game is programmed very well, such that once you’ve found a word, the virtual keyboard’s highlighted letters gray out the first solution, doubly helping you toward your goal.