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Trending Games
Climbing fastest this week, by new players.
This one is ranked by how fast a board is picking up new players, not by how many it has. That's why the harder ones tend to show up here first.
No. 1 this week Deluxe Waffle A 7×7 board, eight words, twenty-five swaps. 7×7 · unlimitedAll games in Trending Games
- 02 Waffle Unlimited The same 5×5 board, with no daily reset. Endless boards
- 03 Dordle Wordle Two boards, one keyboard, every guess counts twice. Two boards at once
- 04 Waffle Game Six words, three across and three down, in fifteen moves. Daily word game
- 05 Word Blast Group sixteen words into four hidden themes. Group by theme
- 06 Wordle One hidden five-letter word, six tries. Six tries · daily
How this list is ranked
Ranked by week-on-week growth in first-time players rather than by total numbers. A board with a small but fast-growing crowd will beat one that's bigger and flat. It's a noisier list than Hot Games on purpose — it shows you where attention is heading instead of where it already is.
Where each board sits
Deluxe Waffle
Growing fastest by a long way. The pattern's always the same: people get good at the small board, find it too easy, and go looking for something that punishes a lazy guess.
Waffle Unlimited
Climbing steadily as people who finish the daily board go hunting for a second one.
Dordle Wordle
Rising with everyone who's decided one board at a time isn't enough of a challenge any more.
Waffle Game
Steady rather than spiking, but still picking up new players every week — which is unusual for a board that's been around this long. The daily habit is what keeps it moving.
Word Blast
Spiky. It jumps whenever a particularly good grid does the rounds on social media, then settles back down again.
Wordle
Flat, which here means everyone's already tried it rather than that it's fading.
Treat this as an early warning. What's climbing here usually turns up in hot games a few weeks later, once the new players have finished enough boards to count as solves. If you like getting to a puzzle before everyone at work is comparing scores, start here rather than the front page.