Category
Trending Games
Climbing fastest this week, by new players.
Ranked by how quickly they are picking up new players rather than by total solves — which is why the harder boards 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, not by volume. A board with a small but fast-growing audience will outrank one that is bigger and flat. It is a noisier list than Hot Games by design — it shows you where attention is moving rather than where it already is.
Where each board sits
Dordle Wordle
Growing fastest by some distance. The pattern is consistent: players master the single-board games, find them too easy, and go looking for something that punishes a lazy guess.
Deluxe Waffle
Climbing fastest of anything here. Players who finish the daily board in ten moves come looking for something that takes longer than a coffee break.
Waffle Unlimited
Rising steadily as people who finish the daily board go looking for a second one.
Waffle Game
Steady rather than spiking, but still adding new players every week — unusual for a board that has been out this long. The daily habit is what keeps the number moving.
Word Blast
Spiky. Growth arrives in bursts whenever a particularly good grid does the rounds on social media, then settles again.
Wordle
Flat, which is what saturation looks like rather than decline. Almost everyone who is going to try Wordle has already tried it.
Treat this list as a leading indicator. What is climbing here tends to arrive in hot games a few weeks later, once the new players have had time to finish enough boards to register as solves. If you like being early to a puzzle before everyone at work is comparing scores, start at the top of this page rather than the front page.