Cloudle Is The New Wordle Spin-Off For Weather Forecasts

It’s April and you’d think we’d be tired of Wordle spin-offs by now, but somehow we are not.

Yep, another new Wordle spin-off has entered the fray and it’s rather sweetly named Cloudle.

“Look, it’s Wordle, but for the weather,” a pop-up window rather matter-of-factly informed me on my first foray. “There’s a new city every day. You have to guess the five-day forecast for that city. You know how the game works.”

I was given the the city of Giza, Egypt, and managed to guess that it was quite cloudy there yesterday. Unfortunately though, even though I was given five guesses, I didn’t quite manage to guess the forecast for the whole week, and was treated to a very sobering pop-up.

“You lost,” it said. “You ran out out of guesses and lost the game.”

I’m not going to lie, Cloudle is very rude. It made me feel ashamed of myself. And to think that I once called it “sweetly named”.

Cloudle comes off as extremely smug for a Wordle spin-off that is this late to the game. We’ve already had Worldle, the geography spin-off;  Heardle, for music lovers; and Quordle, whatever that is. I mean, what has Cloudle ever done except for copy a thing that already exists and fail to even do a proper rhyme?

Anyway, Cloudle gives you a nine weather tiles to choose from for a given day: clear, cloudy, scattered clouds, overcast, drizzle, rain, thunderstorm, snow, and mist. Like Wordle and its other spin-offs, Cloudle only puts out one game a day, which is probably a good thing given the way it spoke to me.

Sorry — I’m not over it! You can play Cloudle here.