THE WIDER WORLD OF WORDLE
At first, I refused to jump on the Wordle wagon. What did this odd green and grey grid mean on people’s Facebook feeds, and why were they so proud of it? But with a short tutorial from a friend, I was hooked just like millions of other players. Soon after so was my mum, who still triumphantly greets me every morning with her Wordle score. Now, with more spin-offs than Pride and Prejudice, Wordle is a worldwide hit. If you’re not familiar (where have you been?) each day you start with a vowel-packed word which highlights in green if letters are in the right place or yellow if letters belong in the word in different places. You get five more rows to clarify the word – a regular Wordler will typically do it by Row 3 or 4. However, sometimes it fools us all. Who remembers the day the Word of the Day was ‘cynic’? Never again.
As minor a challenge as it. The challenge is sometimes waiting 24 hours until the next game uploads. No, the newspaper brand did not code it; the online puzzle was bought by for more than $1 million in January this year, its Welsh creater Josh Wardle the envy of code writers everywhere. What was a simple lockdown game for him and his partner became the inspiration for this column.
