You may have seen tweets, received texts, and noticed social media posts. One daily word. Five letters. Six guesses.
Wordle took the world by storm at the beginning of 2022. If you aren’t familiar, Wordle challenges people to guess a five-letter word in six guesses, with a new word refreshing every single day. There are 2,315 secret words with 12,972 possible words as a guess. The game lets you know how you’re doing after each guess by color coding the letters in the word you guessed. A green letter = the letter and position are correct, yellow = correct letter but incorrect position, and gray = letter is not in that word.
Once the game grew in popularity, friendly competition began. “I got today’s word in 5 guesses!” I told my partner excitedly. “Hah, I got it in 4,” he smugly replied. (more…)