(NEW YORK) – The first big viral trend of 2022 is here, and it’s a colorful word game called Wordle. Players who visit Wordle's website have six chances to gues
Michael Dobuski/ABC News(NEW YORK) – The first big viral trend of 2022 is here, and it's a colorful word game called Wordle. Players who visit Wordle's website
Michael Dobuski/ABC News(NEW YORK) – The first big viral trend of 2022 is here, and it's a colorful word game called Wordle. Players who visit Wordle's website have six chances to guess a five-letter word, which has been randomly selected from a database. With each try, the game tells you how close your letters are to the "word of the day." If the letters you pick are in the word but in the wrong order, Wordle highlights them in yellow. If the letters are in the word and placed correctly, they get highlighted in green. Gray-highlighted letters means they don't appear in the word of the day. "It's a good, fun game," says Gizmodo Executive Editor Andrew Couts. "It only takes a couple of minutes, and it's something to talk about with your friends." Wordle was created by New York software engineer Josh Wardle this past fall, but Couts says the game really became popular in late December and early January, and now boasts more than thr
Michael Dobuski/ABC News(NEW YORK) – The first big viral trend of 2022 is here, and it's a colorful word game called Wordle. Players who visit Wordle's website