WORDLE — The word seems to be bouncing off every surface lately, and here you are, succumbing to your curiosity to learn more. Here’s everything you need to know about the latest word game that has millions of people trapped in its addictive grids.
How to Play Wordle: The New Game Taking the Internet by Storm
Wordle is a daily word game developed by Josh Wardle, a software engineer from New York, that offers players 6 chances per game to guess a hidden 5-letter word. The letters that make up each guessed word are given colored feedback (green, yellow, gray) as hints to the players to nudge them toward the "solution" word.
Wordle’s origins have a sweet backstory. Wardle created Wordle as a gift for his partner, Palak Shah — a fun business for the word game enthusiast duo to kill some time each day. The first game ever, Wordle 0, was released on July 19, 2021; the game remained an object of private entertainment shared only with friends and family for a few months before launching as a free online game for the public in mid-October of that same year.
The game managed to amass a huge fanbase almost immediately, reaching its peak of popularity within a few months. By late January 2022, rumors of a commercial takeover were rife in the Wordle community; shortly after, it was confirmed by the New York Times that Wordle had been acquired by Josh Wardle for a price "in the low seven figures" with plans to put the game behind a paywall in the future.
