Wordle: What You Need to Know About the Wildly Popular Word Game

If you’ve been at all active on Twitter in recent weeks, chances are you’ve encountered—or, better yet, participated in—Wordle.

The word game, which has a touching history involving a Brooklyn-based software engineer, is built atop simple (though still engaging and quite often challenging) rules. As part of the experience, many players (including some household names) have taken up the task of sharing their game results on Twitter and elsewhere, driving more and more people to join in on the daily solves.

Below, we take a closer look at Wordle, including info on how it started and where it may be going from here.