One of the most viral internet games of the past few years is the Wordle, with around 3 million players worldwide in 2022. If you want to know about the Wordle game and how it becomes a viral internet sensation, then go through this article. In this article you are going to know how does Wordle Work, where and how you can play this game.
What Is Wordle?
Wordle is one of the most viral internet games with around 3 million players worldwide in 2022. It is a daily word game, in this you have to figuring out a secret five-letter word.
From past few years Wordle become more popular all over the world. You can play this game by guessing different five-letter words to see how close you are to the secret five-letter word. When you submit your guess word, Wordle will color-coding each letter in your guess and tell you how close your guess is.
Secret word refreshes everyday and you can play only one puzzle in a day. For every player around the world, the secret word is same. So that you can discuss about the same puzzle with your family, friends, or the strangers all over the world on the internet.
Creation Of Wordle
In 2013, Wordle game was created by a software engineer and artist named Josh Wardle. Josh was made this game primarily as a personal guessing game for his partner, so they can play together. Because, before this Josh and his partner loved playing games like crosswords and Mastermind.
But in October 2021, Josh decided to make the game publicly available. After that in the form of colored emoji squares, people start sharing their daily results with each other and Within a few months, Wordle had attracted so many players around the world. Since Josh didn’t want to run a gaming business, so he was not sure how he can continue managing the game and he sold it to The New York Times in January 2022. The New York Times already manages many other successful word games, likes the NYT Crossword
and Spelling Bee. Now millions of users playing this Wordle game and some of are playing it everyday by making it as a habit.
Where To Play Wordle
There is no dedicated app version of Wardle. You can’t go to the Google Play Store or app store to download the app titled Wordle, because those app will remains the copycat. You can play it through the web browser, like Chrome or Safari.
Before, Wordle can be played on a special Wordle website, after that, it played on the New York Times game site. But now you can play it in The New York Times Crossword app and this is available for both the Android and iOS.
Is Wordle Free?
Unlike NYT other games it is absolutely free. Without any New York Times (NYT)subscription, you can play this Wordle game absolutely free without any ads. When NYT brought this game from Wardle, they decided to keep it free for the users. But to play NYT’s other word games are like crosswordyou need a subscription.
How to Play Wordle Online
- If you are playing Wordle for the first time , then it can be quite confusing but after played once or twice, you can be easily understand the game.
- The rules for playing Wordle are simple. You have to guess a secret five-letter word in few guesses as possible. You just have to submit gas by type any five-letter word and press the enter
- According to a dictionary of five-letter words, Wordle can only allowed as a guess. just to guess those letter , you can not make any non-existent word.
- The game will color-code each letter in your guess, as soon as you have submitted your guess to tell how close your letters in the hidden word.
What Are The Meanings Of Different Color In Game
A gray or black square : It means the letter is not present in thesecret word at all.
A yellow square : It means the letter is there in the secret word but in the wrong spot in the word.
A green or yellow square : Getting green or yellow square means you are closure to the real secret word. Since it means you’ve guessed the correct letter
But, there is no special color coding for letters that appear repeatedly. Same letters
can appear multiple times in the secret word.
To guess the secret word, you can get maximum six tries . Different winning statement the game will give you and that depending on how many guesses it took:
1 attempt: “Genius”
2 attempts: “Magnificent”
3 attempts: “Impressive”
4 attempts: “Splendid”
5 attempts: “Great”
6 attempts: “Phew”
Wordle has a “Share” option, once you have found the secret word. You can copy your results in the form of colored emoji cubes and share them either on your social media or you can send it to your Wordle-loving friends.
