BRAGGING RIGHTS
When “Hutt gal” and public servant Elizabeth Scrivener came up with a way of sharing her Wordle results on social media, she had no idea she would be playing a crucial part in the word game’s global success.
Its trajectory has been little short of astonishing. For Wordle fans, love is most definitely a five-letter word. You have to go back to the Rubik’s cube when it appeared in 1974 or Sudoku in 1986 to find an equivalent craze that spread so fast and so far.
Wordle is a little like a jigsaw, in that you have to get your puzzle pieces in the right place, with a tiny adrenaline rush of satisfaction when you get the solution. It has grown from 90 daily players in November to more than 2.5 million in mid-January, in part thanks to Scrivener
She had been sharing her daily results with a few Wordle-playing friends in tweets such as, “Got it in three today.”
“Because everyone plays the same
