Can you solve it? Forget Wordle, here’s Worzle

Worzel Gummidge [Jon Pertwee] - ITV ARCHIVE Photograph: ITV/REX/Shutterstock

Happy birthday Wordle, two years old this month!

Reader Alf Smith, a retired software engineer from Herefordshire, has devised what he calls “Worzle”, a portmanteau of Wordle + puzzle. You are shown a solved game of Wordle, with some letters hidden, and must fill in the missing letters.

Below are three examples: easy, medium and hard.

Remember*: each line must be a word. Green means right letter right space, yellow is right letter wrong space, and grey is wrong letter. (Although if a letter is grey, that letter could still appear in the word so long as that letter also appears in as many coloured squares as the number of times it appears in the word.)

Easy

Medium

Hard

I’ll be back at 5pm UK with the answers.

UPDATE: read the solutions here.

PLEASE NO SPOILERS. Please discuss your favourite Wordle memories, or suggest what sort of game might go by the name of ‘Workle’, ‘Worble’ or ‘Wormle’

*UPDATE: I have not explained this puzzle well enough, as the BTL folk have pointed out. So, here is what you need to do.

Each puzzle is a complete game of Wordle, a game in which you need to guess a 5-letter word. The lines with grey in them are 5-letter words which are guesses as to the solution word. The bottom line, with five green squares, is the solution word. There is one solution word per grid.

The aim of Worzle is to fill in the grid, i.e. to work out what the words are on each line. Each line is a 5-letter word, and the colours tell you whether the letters are in that word or not. Green means correct letter in the correct place. Yellow is correct letter in the wrong place. Grey means that letter does not appear.

I set a puzzle here every two weeks on a Monday. I’m always on the look-out for great puzzles. If you would like to suggest one, email me.