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Wordle is a game designed by a computer engineer and translated by a Colombian web designer . A game that lasts 5 minutes, but despite its brevity, it has thousands of people addicted to it.
The game starts with five letters and you have to guess a word. Wordle is one of those phenomena that recalls the dawn of the web, when quite rare web pages offered hobbies that went viral even without social networks.
Indeed, it is a simple but challenging game. When we open the web wordpress web design agency page from a smartphone or computer, we see a table of five by six cells and, below, a keyboard. The objective is to guess a word following the rules of Mastermind.
We write the first word and press Enter. The chosen letters are gray if they are not present in the word to guess, yellow if they are present but in the wrong position, green if they are correct and the position is also correct. Thus, by trial and error, we should arrive at the solution but be careful, we only have six attempts.
Despite, or perhaps precisely because of, its extreme simplicity, Wordle has revolutionized the web. Users have grown from 90 on November 1 to 300,000 by early January.
Social networks that have begun to fill up with the results obtained by the various actors. After guessing the word, in fact, we can share our success: a screen offers our statistics and a big "Share" button that leaves no doubt.
The Story of Wordle
The story of Wordle also seems to come from the past. The game was created by Josh Wardle, a software engineer from Brooklyn who wanted to create a hobby for himself, and his partner, Palak Shah, a word game enthusiast. The first idea was born in 2013 but was immediately abandoned because, according to Wardle's friends, it didn't work. But then, motivated by the success of another puzzle, Spelling Bee, the engineer decided to relaunch it. The second test worked. Day after day, Wordle delighted the couple, the two began sharing it on the family's WhatsApp chat, then spreading the link to their friends. From there, the rise.
"I think people like it when there's something online that's just fun." "It's just a fun game."
Wardle tells the New York Times
Simplicity is a virtue, some would say, and among the secrets of success there are two interesting factors. The first is the length of the game, which barely exceeds five minutes, a sort of small break while having a coffee or traveling on public transport. The second is a feeling of scarcity that leads you to consult the site every day: Wordle only offers one word every 24 hours.
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Over the months, the game mechanics have been refined. The initial list contained 12,000 topics, many of which are too obscure for our times, so the couple chose 2,500 common words to challenge themselves and have fun. Since the game is only in English, for us Italians it has an extra value. These five minutes a day stimulate you to think in English, enrich your vocabulary and, of course, have fun.
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