During the October 2021 lockdown, British developer Josh Wardle came up with a puzzle game for his girlfriend and named it Wordle, a pun on his last name (Wardle) and the word word. Gradually the couple’s relatives got involved in the game as well. And by early January 2022, the puzzle had been solved by two million people.
Wordle is an English word puzzle web game that was created in October 2021. Within four months, the game had adaptations in different languages. In TikTok, daily walkthroughs of the game with commentary gain tens of thousands of likes.
On January 31, 2022, The New York Times announced that it was buying Wordle “for a seven-figure sum.” It is known that Wordle will become part of NYT Games and will remain free for the time being.
How to play it
The object of the game is to guess the word of the day. Exactly guess – no hints in the vein of “Warm time of year, five letters”. In front of you will be a box of squares and a keyboard to type.
This is a “Field of Wonders” for zoomers – you have to guess the word by the letters. You have six tries to take turns entering a five-letter word. When you enter the first word, send the results and all the squares change color. Green – the letter is in the word and stands in this place, yellow – the letter is there but in a different place, grey – such a letter is not in the word. You can enable hard mode: you will need to use the detected hints in the next word, you cannot enter a word without green and yellow letters.