After each attempt the game makes you guess. The letters are colored green if they are there and correctly placed or placed, yellow if located incorrectly as well as grey if the letters don't appear in the target word in any way. As in the board games Battleship and Mastermind Mastermind, you are able to use this tiny information to improve your next guess and help you narrow down the word that you are trying to find. (Infuriatingly the game provides the player no indication on whether a given letter appears multiple times in the word you want to guess this is a design decision that generates online outrage whenever, for example "TRUSS" appears.)

In the New York Times, Wordle was founded last year by a Brooklyn-based software engineer, Josh Wardle, as a gift to his partner. The game soon was a popular choice among his wider family. The game's popularity grew throughout the web, from 90 players 1 November to 300,000 players on January 2.


The simplicity is the appeal. Wordle is the only game that wordle game has been every day and the same game is available for everyone around the world. There aren't any advertisements in the game, no notifications reminding you to return each morning, no novelty skins with which you can change the appearance to your words, no coupon codes to be exchanged for sending the game's name to friends. With such a large amount of traffic, the incentive to profit in the wake of Wordle's achievement is huge. However, the game's refusal to accept capitalism that is the basis of the majority of video games today is refreshing and has a wholesome quality. Long may Wordle keep as pure.