"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." By now, you've most likely heard of Wordle—the daily five-letter word-guessing game that's taken the ...

The web-based guessing game has taken the world by storm since launching in October 2021. Created by Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle, it was later sold to the New York Times for a price in the ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

Josh Wardle created the word-guessing game Wordle, which became an instant hit when it first launched during the coronavirus pandemic in 2021. Its became so popular that in early 2022 the game was ...

Reddit engineer Josh Wardle created a word-guessing game for his puzzle-loving partner in 2021. Within a few months, the online game — known as Wordle — had taken the internet by storm. So much so, ...

I was one of the zillions transfixed by the Wordle phenomenon. Not just on the five-letter-word guessing game, but all the clones. Every morning, I would sweat over choosing the perfect words in order ...

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For most of us, Wordle, The New York Times’ five-letter-word guessing game that exploded in popularity during the pandemic, is old news. (Unless you never broke your streak, that is.) But how about a ...

In 2021, Wordle, the word-guessing game designed and released by New York-based software engineer Josh Wardle, became a sensation in the English-speaking world during the global lockdowns caused by ...