Waffle — Wordle English
Free daily Waffle in English. Swap tiles on a 5×5 grid so every row and column spells a word. 15 swaps, par 10. Star rating, unlimited mode, 73 languages —...
How to Play Waffle
Waffle is a daily 5×5 letter-swap crossword in English. Six interlocking 5-letter words — three across, three down — start scrambled across 21 tiles. Your job is to rearrange them, not guess: tap two non-green tiles to swap their positions. Greens are locked where they belong. Yellows are in the right word but the wrong slot. Greys don't belong to either intersecting word. You have 15 swaps; par is 10 — solve in 10 or fewer for all five stars, lose a star per swap over par. Unlike wafflegame.net (English-only, one puzzle a day), Wordle Global runs Waffle in 73 languages with a built-in unlimited variant and per-language archive. Free, no account required.
How Waffle works
Every day a 5×5 waffle is built from six interlocking 5-letter words — three across (top, middle, bottom) and three down (left, centre, right), sharing letters at the nine intersection tiles. The 21 letters are scrambled into a puzzle that's solvable in about 10 swaps of perfect play; you get 15 swaps before the run ends.
Each tile colours itself against the solved grid: green means the letter is correct for the row & column it sits in, yellow means the letter belongs to the word but in a different spot, and grey means it doesn't belong to either of its two intersecting words. Green tiles lock — tap them and nothing happens. Tap any two non-green tiles and they swap.
The large number under the grid is swaps remaining, the same readout wafflegame.net made famous. Solve in 10 or fewer to earn all five stars; each extra swap peels one star off (0 stars at 15 swaps is still a win). The star rating travels with your share text so friends know the effort, not just the result.
Per-language, not English-only. The daily waffle for Spanish, German, Turkish, Finnish, and every other supported corpus is built from that language's native 5-letter daily pool — no translated word lists, no awkward anglicisms. Unlimited mode gives you an endless stream of fresh grids from the same pool; the daily streak tracker ignores unlimited results so you can practice without risk.
Tips & Strategy
Scan every green tile first and reconstruct which row and column it anchors. If a green I sits at row 3 column 5, you know the middle-across and right-down words both end with I. That prunes huge chunks of the search.
Attacking the grid holistically burns swaps. Pick a row or column with the most greens already placed and finish it completely before touching anything else.
Every swap trades two tiles. Try to ensure at least one side of the swap lands in a slot where it turns green. If both sides land somewhere yellow you've spent a swap and learned almost nothing.
Nine tiles sit at the intersection of a row and a column. A single correct swap there can turn both words' clues at once — prioritise these when you have multiple candidates.
Yellows hold information — they tell you which row or column a letter belongs to. Moving a yellow to a random new slot risks converting it into a grey. Move yellows toward the slot you already believe is correct, not away from it.
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Waffle vs wafflegame.net vs the -dle cabal
How this Waffle compares to the original and the most-trafficked clone.
| Feature | Waffle (Wordle Global) | wafflegame.net | wordly.org clone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Languages | 73 (every 5-letter corpus with ≥100 valid grids) | English only | English only |
| Per-language daily puzzle | Yes — each language gets its own grid | — | — |
| Unlimited mode | Yes — endless new grids, separate stats | No | Yes |
| Swaps | 15 · par 10 | 15 · par 10 | 15 · par 10 |
| Scoring | ★ rating tied to swaps under par + per-language leaderboard | ★ rating + global leaderboard | Completion only |
| Archive | Past daily waffles browsable per language | Paid Deluxe tier | No |
| Ads during play | No | No (paid Deluxe) | Yes |
| Account | Optional — progressive | Optional | No |
| Other modes in the same hub | 10+ modes (classic, speed, quordle, globle, semantic, mathle…) | Waffle only | Cabal portfolio of -dle clones |
Comparison based on publicly available information, April 2026.