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It's not just guessing word after word, of course. Those results can be shared with friends. The game keeps statistics on how many times you've played it, percentage won, and how many times you took one, two, three, four, five or six tries to solve the word. It prohibits binging, which can lead to burn out. It’s just a game that’s fun.”Īnd while he's had some success with games in the past, he attributes the popularity of Wordle to limiting it to one word a day. 'It’s not trying to do anything shady with your data or your eyeballs. 'I think people kind of appreciate that there’s this thing online that’s just fun,' he told The New York Times a few weeks ago. He believes the game's simplicity is part of its popularity. The increase continues to be rocket-like.

At the start of this month, there were 300,000 people playing it. It being about words, and his last name being Wardle, he made its name a play on his. His partner liked word games, so he created a guess-the-word game just for her. It was developed by Josh Wardle, Brooklyn-based software engineer. There are no 'in-app purchases.' It is available only on a website. More: Gadget Daddy: A great entry-level device that'll make you smarter about smartwatches More: Gadget Daddy: CES cut short this year because of COVID-19 More: Who could forget the toilet light? A look back at Gadget Daddy's top picks of 2021 A keyboard-like arraignment of 26 letters shows letters guessed and those remaining. If the letter isn't in the word, it will show up in black. If it's the right letter, but the wrong location in the word, it will be yellow. If it's the right letter in the right place, it will show up green. It starts with five empty blocks across – one for each letter – stacked six rows deep, one row for each guess. Solve one, wait until midnight for a new game. And the beauty of it is there's only one game a day – the same word for all players. And at one word a day, that list will last a little shy of seven years.įive-letter words? One a day? By now you know the topic of today's missive: Wordle, a guess-the-word online game. The the Official Scrabble Dictionary (which allows some pretty obscure five-letter words), puts the number at about 9,000.īut if some reasonable people come up with some commonly used five-letter words – piano, ouija, knoll, to mention a few – the list will be around 2,500. The Free Dictionary lists more than 158,000 words with five letters.

As it turns out, the number varies widely. Until about a week or so ago, I really wasn't concerned how many five-letter words there were in the English language.

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