WQRDLES: A Tactile Wordle-Like Word Deduction Game (2022)

WQRDLES is a word deduction game for two to six players, aged 10+. Each player thinks of a secret word and hides it for their opponents to guess. All players play at once - no moderator is required to host the game.

COMPONENTS
•Two or three dry erase decoding boards
•Dry erase markers
•12 query cards, each with 12 curated words
•30 two-sided marking rings (green and yellow)
•Covers (to hide secret words)
•2 dice.

(A deluxe version uses transparent colored marking tiles and partially magnetic dry erase board.)

INITIAL SETUP
1. Give each player a decoding board and a dry erase marker
2. Place the two-sided rings between the players
3. Shuffle the query cards and place one card face up.

PLAY IN ROUNDS
At the start of each round, all players write down a secret word and cover it to keep hidden.
At the start of each round, clear your decoding board (except for score) and draw a new query card.

GAME PLAY
Players take turns rolling dice, selecting query words, decoding their own word, guessing each others’ words.
On each turn …
1. The next player rolls both dice. If doubles are rolled, proceed to the doubles action section (skipping #2)
2. The player selects one of the four query words matching a either die number. If all words have been used, roll again.
3. The player calls out the query word.
4. All players write down the letters of the query word in the next empty row on their decoding board.
5. All players decode and mark any matching letters as per the decoding section below.
6. All players optionally mark one of the sequence clues next to the word to indicate whether their word is alphabetically higher (>) or lower (

-description from designer