A play on the name of its creator, software engineer Josh Wardle, work on the online puzzle began in 2013 and was finished during the COVID-19 lockdown, with help from Wardle’s partner Palak Shah. Each guess must be a valid 5-letter word and the color of the tiles will change to show how close your guess was to the word. When it was released online at the end of 2021, it was played by a few dozen people a day. But it soon became an online sensation, attracting millions of regular players—and that reach has continued to grow since it was acquired by The New York Times Company for an undisclosed sum earlier this year. Newsweek has provided some handy hints (and if all else fails, the answer) . . .
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