Word games are oozing with reasons for people to love them: they're quick and relatively easy to play, and they quench a dormant thirst to solve a puzzle. Josh Wardle, a software engineer, knew his ...

PHILADELPHIA -- "Guys, I am obsessed with Wordle." "Can't stop. Won't stop." These are just some of the things being said by players of the game Wordle. It's a free word game. The mission is to guess ...

We’ve all seen it by now. The little green and yellow blocks filling up our Twitter timelines, group chats, and message boards. It’s not some weird morse code, it’s just everyone showing off their ...

What started as a fun, daily word-guessing game has turned into an overnight viral obsession. Wordle, created by software engineer Josh Wardle, challenges players to guess a five-letter word of the ...

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It's a free word game. The mission is to guess a five-letter word in six tries or less. After each guess, the tiles change colors. Green means it's the right letter and it's in the right spot. Yellow ...