Lately, I’ve been paying for the internet just to find out who played Wordle. What is this puzzle and why everyone is hooked on it:

At the beginning of the year, strange posts began to appear on social media with various combinations of gray, yellow and green squares. The ignorant were lost in guesses, trying to understand what is hidden behind the mysterious messages. It turned out that in this way users share the results of their game in the free browser puzzle Wordle. How did this simple fun conquer the Internet community and where to play Wordle in Russian? The answers are in our article.



GettyImages Wordle: Where did Wordle come from? Wordle owes its appearance to British programmer Josh Wardle. He wrote this app during quarantine as a simple way to have fun. I had no idea it would become so popular.

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What is the reason for the unexpected success? There are several of them: no hints, no advertising, a primitive interface and the ability to share results in social networks without revealing the correct answer. “People like things that don’t require anything from them,” Wardle said in an interview.

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This is not the first time I guess a word that I did not know existed, purely estimating what sounds more English.

— Nouneim Soybean (@lampimampi) January 24, 2022



To this you need to add a sense of rivalry and joy from the self-found solution. They give a powerful charge of dopamine, prompting you to tackle the puzzle again and again.

Once a day Wordle publishes a new mystery. You need to guess a five-letter word. The word is the same for everyone. There are no crossword tasks. So you have to act at random. There are six attempts to find the answer (by the number of lines on the playing field).



So, you put in the first line a word that came to mind. If there is a letter in the answer, it lights up in yellow. If it is in the right place, the color will be green. Letters that are not in the word become gray.



Now it remains to turn on the logic and choose a word in which all the letters will be in the right places. Sometimes it takes six tries, sometimes four. If it’s two or three, how can you not share it with your friends?

Wordle had only 90 active users in November and now has more than 2 million active users. People are bribing that the puzzle does not need to be downloaded. It is enough to drive the name into the search box, click on the first link and play “without registration and SMS”. And since everyone solves the same word every day, you can find like-minded people and feel the joy of competition.

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— Chrishanel.psd (@ChrisHanel) January 10, 2022



The popularity of Wordle has made it the subject of many jokes. And while some users come up with memes, others turn circuits with the results of the game into real pictures.



And others lay out pictures from squares, but note that it is not Worlde, but something else.

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This isn't Wordle, but a damn fine coffee.

— Kyle MacLachlan (@Kyle_MacLachlan) January 28, 2022



So famous for his role in the TV series “Twin Peaks” actor Kyle McLachlen “drawn” a cup of coffee and quoted his hero, Agent Cooper.

Where to play Wordle in Russian? Wordle fascination did not pass by the Russians. On January 10, programmer Alexander Belousov launched a Russian-language version of the game, which does not require knowledge of English.

Launched an analogue of the world hit Worlde in Russian, so that those who do not know English can also play. The rules are the same - 1 word a day, 6 attempts to guess it. Welcome.



Guess the word on t.co/FecE8Kptuv

— Alex is bad at coming up with nicknames (@sudo_belousov) January 10, 2022



The letter "e" had to be abandoned, but the number of words is even more than in the English version. There are also variants of the puzzle in Ukrainian, Belarusian and other languages.



We add that playing puzzle games with words is not only fun, but also good for health. Especially the elderly. This makes the brain work to its fullest and is an excellent prevention of dementia. So if you have older relatives, send them a link to Worlde and play together.

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