NYT Games Subscribers Can Now Make Custom Wordles for Their Friends

The New York Times announced a new feature that lets you create your own Wordle puzzle to share with friends. You must be a Games or All-Access subscriber to create puzzles, but no subscription is necessary to solve them.

You’re also not tied to Wordle’s five-letter structure: permitted puzzles can be four to seven letters long. They must appear on a list of authorized words; as with ordinary Wordle, this mostly means no proper nouns. Profanities are not allowed, nor are gibberish entries like “ASDFGJ” (I tried).

Here’s a link to a four-letter Wordle style puzzle I created for you, because I consider you all my friends. (It is not the puzzle I used to create the screenshots for this article, so no worries about spoilers.) Good luck!

You are invited to play a puzzle created by Beth.
The clue is: “This one has teeth!” »
https://www.nytimes.com/games/create/wordle/emnhCsAP5q-f2uhIJ5xJI95SwS7u2Lmf60S7H5-0wfp78bsvf9h-YhkOIryKZDrlwCPV

How to create your own Wordle on the NYT Games website

Here is the link to the creator of the puzzle. You must be a subscriber to the Games (or NYT All-Access) to use it. When creating a puzzle, you will enter your solution word, name, and an optional clue. After creating the puzzle, you can share it with a message like the one above. Anyone can click the included link and play the puzzle, no subscription required.

When you solve someone’s puzzle, you can share your results in the same way as a regular Wordle solution, but there is also an option to include spoilers. This could be a fun way to show your guesses to the person who created the puzzle.

Yes, I was mean.
Credit: Beth Skwarecki

Custom Words Can Be Surprisingly Difficult

While playing with this tool, I discovered that Wordle style puzzles are not five letters are harder than you think. I had a hard time coming up with good seven-letter words. The puzzle always gives you six guesses, as with a standard five-letter Wordle, regardless of how many letters are in the solution. Good luck for the longest ones!