So maybe go play them and then come back.

Wordle, the original, asks for one word.

Dordle asks for two.

And Quordle asks for a diabolical four at a time.

On Wednesday, in a moment of sweet synergy, Wordle and Quordle had a melding of the minds.

The word “trove” was the answer to Wordle and one of the four answers to Quordle.

We usually hear trove in the phrase “treasure trove.

As a creature of habit, I use the same starting words across all my Ordles.

I saw the pattern emerge right away.

The crossover between the two gamesplayed beautifully into the pointing Spider-Mans meme.

We knowWordle is drawing on a list of about 2,500 words.

It was probably only a matter of time before the lexicon streams crossed.