Wordle, but with non league club badges, and it’s already a hit with fans

There’s a new thing taking off right now, it’s Wordle, but with non league club badges, and it’s already a hit with fans.

The club badge is the symbol of the club. Club fans like collecting club badges related products as collections, such as club badge stickers, key chains, etc. Now, it’s easy to customize club badge enamel pins, PVC patches, etc. on platforms, such as Esty, and GS-JJ.

They are popular decorations as well as good giveaways for club fans. And the badge game brings fans a different kind of fun in a fresh way.

The new daily guessing game has been created, where you have to guess the club from the badge, inspired by Wordle, Heardle, Framed and the other spin-offs.

Robert Fenech is the creator, and fear not, if non league is too hard for you and you have no clue about that level of football, there is one for top clubs called https://clubdle.robfenech.co.uk.

Back to the non league ‘Wordle’ now, which can be accessed by clicking on this link, whatsthebadge.com, and it’s already got people guessing, don’t worry we won’t spoil today’s one for you.

Wordle, but with non-league club badges. Now we’re talking. https://t.co/Y4TLm0zbx0

Couldn’t have had a more fitting club for my first attempt.

— Against League 3 (@AgainstLeague3) July 11, 2022

How to play

It is pretty easy. There are 16 squares. Each wrong guess will reveal another part of the badge.

You get 6 guesses. Just start typing a team into the search bar to find one.

Guess the correct football club from the list. Simple.

You can give @robertfenech a follow over on Twitter, but if you’re loving the game so much, you can show appreciation by ‘buying him a beer’ HERE.

There are a lot of non league crests to try and work out however, with the National League System a structure for senior men’s football that operates directly below the English Football League (EFL), League Two. It stretches from the National League at Step 1 through to the various County Leagues at Step 7.

In total, 57 leagues featuring a total of 84 divisions across the country provide a feeder system through to the EFL. That’s a lot of clubs’ logos to work out and know of.

It’s easy to see why so many versions have come off the back of Wordle’s success.

The Wordle creator, Josh Wardle, says he is overwhelmed by the global success of hit puzzle.

Its launch last autumn, from 90 daily players in November to 300,000 at the beginning of January, to over 4 million these days.

As its popularity snowballed on social media, Wardle, a software engineer based in Brooklyn who is originally from Wales, begun to feel overwhelmed by the response. “It going viral doesn’t feel great to be honest. I feel a sense of responsibility for the players. I feel I really owe it to them to keep things running and make sure everything’s working correctly.”

But he now feels comfortable in the knowledge that his game has brought joy to people at a difficult time. “I get emails from people who say things like ‘hey, we can’t see our parents due to Covid at the moment but we share our Wordle results each day’. During this weird situation it’s a way for people to connect in a low effort, low friction way.”

Wardle also reckons the game is so popular because it’s simple and accessible, yet also challenging. “Even though I play it every day, I still feel a sense of accomplishment when I do it: it makes me feel smart, and people like that.”

“The internet is in a really bad place at the moment, but this is great because it’s not doing all those nasty things. It’s what the web was like when we first had it, it was much more playful,” said Adam Procter, who leads the game design course at Southampton University.

The question Wardle is currently grappling with is whether to evolve the game further. “I need to be really thoughtful. It’s not my full-time job and I don’t want it to become a source of stress and anxiety in my life. If I do make any changes, I would like to think they are changes I would have made even if it was just [my partner and I] playing.”

However it seems others after doing that for him, there’s Heardle that tasks players with guessing a song from a short intro.

Then there’s Worldle, giving players six chances to guess a country outlined in black.

In fact there are around 15 alternatives to Wordle. Here’s just some of those…

Who Are Ya?

A Wordle for football fans, Who Are Ya? is a browser-based game hosted on the website Missing11.com that challenges players to identify a blurred-out professional footballer in eight goes using a limited number of clues. With each turn, players are told whether the nationality, league, club, position or age is right, and the image gets a little less blurred. “It’s a lot harder than it sounds,” said the Daily Express. There’s a version with players from the big five European leagues too, and a Premier League alternative if that’s a bit too tricky… > PLAY WHO ARE YA?

Framed

This new guessing game is giving “movie buffs the chance to flex their frame-by-frame muscles”, said GamesRadar+. Players are shown a still from a film, and have six guesses to identify the title. With each wrong turn, they’re shown a new still. Despite the similarities to Wordle, Framed is “more of a trivia game than a puzzle challenge”, said IndieWire. Either way, the film-focused game is said to have already gained millions of daily users. > PLAY FRAMED

Sweardle

Billed as “the sweary” guessing game, Sweardle was invented as a “joke parody of Wordle”, swapping five-letter words for four-letter expletives, with approximately 50 swear words used in rotation. A message on the game site explains that its creator “wishes to remain anonymous because this really isn’t the sort of thing you want to have come up in a future job background check”. > PLAY SWEARDLE