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What is Wordle?
Wordle is a daily word-guessing game: you get six tries to guess a secret five-letter word. After each guess, every letter turns green if it's correct and in the right spot, yellow if it's in the word but the wrong spot, or gray if it's not in the word at all — and you use those clues to narrow down your next guess.
Everyone gets the same word each day, and there's only one puzzle per day — you can't replay it or skip ahead. It was created by software engineer Josh Wardle as a gift for his partner, who loved word games, and released publicly in October 2021. The New York Times acquired it from him in January 2022 and still runs it today.
How did Wordle get so popular?
A few design choices turned a simple game into a global habit almost overnight. The shareable results grid — rows of green, yellow, and gray squares, with no words or spoilers in it — was built specifically so people could post their results on social media without giving away the answer. That grid spreading across Twitter every morning was most people's first exposure to the game.
The one-puzzle-a-day format did the rest: instead of endless replayability, everyone was solving the exact same word at the exact same time, which turned it into a shared daily ritual and a reason to check in with friends (“what did you get today?”). It launched free, with no ads and no app to install — just a single web page — which removed every bit of friction between seeing it shared and trying it yourself.