Wordle: This Addictive Game Is Taking Over The Internet. Played It Yet?

The game was created by a software engineer in Brooklyn for his partner

Wordle, a simple, shareable, and completely free word-guessing game, has suddenly gained a lot of traction on Twitter of late. The rules of the game — a brainteaser — are simple: players have to guess a five-letter word by entering characters in boxes. They can see which letters they got right or wrong through colour coding. If the letter from their guess isn't in the target word, that letter turns grey. It will turn yellow, if it is in the word but in the wrong position. It will become green if it is in the correct word and location. Players have six chances to get it right. I regret finding Wordle because it's going to bother me daily⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜????⬜????????????????????????????Wordle 185 3/6 ????????????????????Wordle 186 1/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜????⬜????⬜⬜⬜????????⬜????????????????????Wordle 183 4/6

Josh Wardle, a software engineer in Brooklyn, designed the game for his partner, Palak Shah, who enjoyed word games, stated a report in The New York Times. As a result, he devised a unique guessing game for the two of them. Mr Wardle called the game Wordle as a play on his surname.

Mr Wardle thought he might be onto something after he and his partner played the game for a couple of months. Then he introduced it to his relatives on their family's WhatsApp group. There too became an obsession. Finally, he released it globally in October 2021.

Here's are a few examples of the game's popularity on Twitter: