university of utah and scholar of games joins me now from salt lake city. great to have you with us. great to be here. so, everyone s enjoying this game, wordle, saturday night live and jimmy fallon getting in on the craze. what is it about this game that has everyone hooked, do you think? a lot of people have been confused about why people are so excited about wordle because the actual mechanics are similar to a lot off other games people know like mastermind and word puzzle games. i think the most important thing about wordle is the way wordle works, it generates this kind of natural graphic that records your movement through the puzzle. when you put it online, it s not that someone just sees your score. that would be boring. what happens is people can actually see your struggle. they can see they can see where you that you just got the right answer instantly or you got stuck and went down a