Wordle but Battle Royale
February 11, 2022 12:03 PM Subscribe
Squabble has you guess 5-letter words in real time as your health meter ticks away, while as many as 99 other people try to guess the same words. You can also set up smaller games of up to 6 people to play against friends. Other people guessing words occasionally hurts your health, but there's no way to intentionally interact with your opponents.
Thanks, I hate it.
posted by Quasirandom at 1:15 PM on February 11, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by Quasirandom at 1:15 PM on February 11, 2022 [1 favorite]
Babble Royale is free on Steam and is a more PvP / aggressive variant. It’s very fun!
posted by sixswitch at 1:35 PM on February 11, 2022
posted by sixswitch at 1:35 PM on February 11, 2022
I think my blood pressure just shot up 30 points. I'm used to doing my wordle right before bed...taking my time to consider the letters calmly before shut-eye. This is waaay too stressful for me!
posted by Gray Duck at 2:00 PM on February 11, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by Gray Duck at 2:00 PM on February 11, 2022 [2 favorites]
I learned today of Quordle, which is exactly like Wordle, except you're playing 4 boards simultaneously. It's hard.
posted by adamrice at 2:41 PM on February 11, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by adamrice at 2:41 PM on February 11, 2022 [3 favorites]
There are way too many proper nouns in Squabble to make it any fun. I just had a board where the word was ROUEN. No one got it. One of the key attractive things about Wordle is that (mostly) it involves everyday words. It's not full of horrible Scrabble tricks. It plays fair.
posted by cincinnatus c at 2:46 PM on February 11, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by cincinnatus c at 2:46 PM on February 11, 2022 [2 favorites]
All this Wordle+ stuff misses the point for me. The beauty of the original lies in its simplicity. Adding layers of complication just makes it worse.
posted by Paul Slade at 2:51 PM on February 11, 2022 [4 favorites]
posted by Paul Slade at 2:51 PM on February 11, 2022 [4 favorites]
It's not full of horrible Scrabble tricks. It plays fair.
As a little follow on from my own post there, I want to express the I-guess-heretical opinion that Scrabble is a really fun game unless you're playing someone who's really into Scrabble. I remember the first time I played someone in real life who actually had the gall to do one of those moves where it's adjacent to the word you just played and it makes seven obscure two-letter words at the same time. I never played them again. I never spoke to them again.
posted by cincinnatus c at 2:59 PM on February 11, 2022 [12 favorites]
As a little follow on from my own post there, I want to express the I-guess-heretical opinion that Scrabble is a really fun game unless you're playing someone who's really into Scrabble. I remember the first time I played someone in real life who actually had the gall to do one of those moves where it's adjacent to the word you just played and it makes seven obscure two-letter words at the same time. I never played them again. I never spoke to them again.
posted by cincinnatus c at 2:59 PM on February 11, 2022 [12 favorites]
There are way too many proper nouns in Squabble to make it any fun. I just had a board where the word was ROUEN. No one got it.
I agree with this really. Wordle's list of words is curated by hand, and I haven't gotten that impression from its various spinoffs. VOLTA this one gave me.
posted by one for the books at 3:05 PM on February 11, 2022 [1 favorite]
I agree with this really. Wordle's list of words is curated by hand, and I haven't gotten that impression from its various spinoffs. VOLTA this one gave me.
posted by one for the books at 3:05 PM on February 11, 2022 [1 favorite]
Scrabble is a really fun game unless you're playing someone who's really into Scrabble.
This is exactly it. Of course it's the case with many games but especially with Scrabble in my opinion. I've never played my (very good friend whom I love dearly) friend again after he played "zig" and then "zag" on the same Z and double word score and got a boatload of points, and those aren't even that controversial of words. I just couldn't handle the use of non-"normal" words in the game, even though I know that's the game.
It's different in Boggle when someone has a word you don't know because it's usually some weird 6-letter one that's just obscure, not one that exists solely to be a 2-letter one for Scrabble.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 3:34 PM on February 11, 2022 [1 favorite]
This is exactly it. Of course it's the case with many games but especially with Scrabble in my opinion. I've never played my (very good friend whom I love dearly) friend again after he played "zig" and then "zag" on the same Z and double word score and got a boatload of points, and those aren't even that controversial of words. I just couldn't handle the use of non-"normal" words in the game, even though I know that's the game.
It's different in Boggle when someone has a word you don't know because it's usually some weird 6-letter one that's just obscure, not one that exists solely to be a 2-letter one for Scrabble.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 3:34 PM on February 11, 2022 [1 favorite]
I immediately run away from any game where I'm timed. I need to take my time and think.
posted by hydra77 at 5:30 PM on February 11, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by hydra77 at 5:30 PM on February 11, 2022 [2 favorites]
Scrabble is a really fun game unless you're playing someone who's really into Scrabble.
Years ago, I learned all the legal two-letter words and most of the threes after watching a documentary about competitive Scrabble. It was a fun but mostly useless exercise, just trivia sitting in the back of my head. Then I went on a date with the most obnoxious poet I've ever met. At one point, she boasted that she'd never lost a single game of Scrabble in her entire life (her words) and oh! Did I want to play?
I swear, if looks could kill, I'd be dead.
posted by lock robster at 7:02 PM on February 11, 2022 [9 favorites]
Years ago, I learned all the legal two-letter words and most of the threes after watching a documentary about competitive Scrabble. It was a fun but mostly useless exercise, just trivia sitting in the back of my head. Then I went on a date with the most obnoxious poet I've ever met. At one point, she boasted that she'd never lost a single game of Scrabble in her entire life (her words) and oh! Did I want to play?
I swear, if looks could kill, I'd be dead.
posted by lock robster at 7:02 PM on February 11, 2022 [9 favorites]
adamrice, I was already playing several Dordles a day, so quordle.com is hitting the spot, for real. Much thanks.
Folks who have a bad time with Scrabble: Rewordable, cocreated by MeFi's Own Allison Parrish, a more fun word-making party game.
posted by brainwane at 10:56 PM on February 11, 2022
Folks who have a bad time with Scrabble: Rewordable, cocreated by MeFi's Own Allison Parrish, a more fun word-making party game.
posted by brainwane at 10:56 PM on February 11, 2022
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posted by brainwane at 10:57 PM on February 11, 2022
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quordle.com
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posted by brainwane at 10:57 PM on February 11, 2022
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posted by lalochezia at 8:18 AM on February 12, 2022
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posted by lalochezia at 8:18 AM on February 12, 2022
one of those moves where it's adjacent to the word you just played and it makes seven obscure two-letter words at the same time
As someone who's into Scrabble but not really into Scrabble, this would be the moment where I think to myself "I am going to lose, probably badly, and it's going to be just a hell of a ride."
posted by box at 11:09 AM on February 12, 2022
As someone who's into Scrabble but not really into Scrabble, this would be the moment where I think to myself "I am going to lose, probably badly, and it's going to be just a hell of a ride."
posted by box at 11:09 AM on February 12, 2022
Oh God, never mind parallel two-letter word wizardry, I still remember about 15 years ago being quietly chuffed with myself just to get SHRIVEN on a triple word score on that FaceBook Scrabble-clone and my equally-skilled friend being all "?!?". I said "You know, to be shriven of your sins, er, like Shrove Tuesday!" and I swear I could feel the death-stare through the screen. Scarred for life, she and me both!
posted by I'm always feeling, Blue at 11:58 PM on February 12, 2022
posted by I'm always feeling, Blue at 11:58 PM on February 12, 2022
National Scrabble Day: A Poem So You’ll Know All 101 Two-Letter Words (previously posted by Wordwoman in 2013)
posted by mubba at 1:29 PM on February 15, 2022
posted by mubba at 1:29 PM on February 15, 2022
I'm used to doing my wordle right before bed...taking my time to consider the letters calmly before shut-eye. This is waaay too stressful for me!
The online Wordle craze is all about bragging about how smart you are because you solved a puzzle in two steps, as if there was only a single solution you just had to Sherlock Holmes you way to, instead of pure blind luck. If you take that contemplative approach you will find the time limit distressing. But there is precious little reward in a squabble 3 solve!
Once you set aside any pretense of low guess solves, and start optimizing for solutions in 5, the game opens up a bit. And most of it is in the preparation. Instead of debating online whether the best opening guess is "CRANE" or some obscure word for a baby eagle, come up with a reliable, memorable opening 4 words that cover 20 letters. Now you have 90 seconds, most of the letters, some info on their placement and two or three guesses remaining.
As you bank extra time from the easy ones (up to 200 seconds) you can afford to spend time pondering on that one with a Z.
Right now my biggest complaints:
1. Too many proper nouns in the dictionary
2. Frequent bugs about joining a dead game
3. Occasional double guess bug (due to network lag?)
4. Attacks, while necessary to avoid stalemates, feel nonstrategic and brutal in the early game. Ideally they would increase the challenge on people already doing well. In the Tetris 99 game this is modeled after, there is a also some meta strategy about strong players choosing to be targeted to boost some multipliers. Hopefully this improves in later betas.
posted by pwnguin at 10:47 AM on February 18, 2022
The online Wordle craze is all about bragging about how smart you are because you solved a puzzle in two steps, as if there was only a single solution you just had to Sherlock Holmes you way to, instead of pure blind luck. If you take that contemplative approach you will find the time limit distressing. But there is precious little reward in a squabble 3 solve!
Once you set aside any pretense of low guess solves, and start optimizing for solutions in 5, the game opens up a bit. And most of it is in the preparation. Instead of debating online whether the best opening guess is "CRANE" or some obscure word for a baby eagle, come up with a reliable, memorable opening 4 words that cover 20 letters. Now you have 90 seconds, most of the letters, some info on their placement and two or three guesses remaining.
As you bank extra time from the easy ones (up to 200 seconds) you can afford to spend time pondering on that one with a Z.
Right now my biggest complaints:
1. Too many proper nouns in the dictionary
2. Frequent bugs about joining a dead game
3. Occasional double guess bug (due to network lag?)
4. Attacks, while necessary to avoid stalemates, feel nonstrategic and brutal in the early game. Ideally they would increase the challenge on people already doing well. In the Tetris 99 game this is modeled after, there is a also some meta strategy about strong players choosing to be targeted to boost some multipliers. Hopefully this improves in later betas.
posted by pwnguin at 10:47 AM on February 18, 2022
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