My wife likes to play Wordle each day. I wondered, "Can we use AI to do a word game? We'll call it Wairdle."

Wairdle uses AI to find a secret word. It's like the old game of 20 Questions, except it's not bound to only yes/no questions. And, it's only 7 questions. In the old IRC chat days of the early internet, the idea was that two people are only separated by 7 leapfrogged connections. (We often hear of 6 degrees of separation, but IRC suggested that it might be more like 7.) So, with Wairdle, you are separated from the word by 7 leapfrog questions.

Essentialy, Wairdle is just an AI chat prompt. You go to any LLM (any chat-based AI agent), enter the prompt that has the Wairdle instructions, then ask your first question. One thing I learned is that AI is terrible at counting. I played in Grok, Gemini, and Claude. All three said something like a 5 letter word, then the word turned out to be a six letter word! Another time in Claude, I literally asked "is it a paper?" Claude said, "Very close, but not quite." I failed that time. Turned out, the secret word was: paper. Say what?

Try it. Get the most-recent prompt, instructions, and tips below. Copy the prompt, paste in an LLM, play.

Good luck!