Created by Josh Wardle, a software engineer, Wordle was initially a personal project for his partner, but it was released publicly in October 2021. By January 2022, it had 300,000 daily users, with millions of people playing the brain teaser every day. Wardle eventually sold the game to The New York Times f or an undisclosed seven-figure sum.

Wordle offers a perfect mix of logic and vocabulary mastery with colour-coded clues indicating how close players are to the correct answer.

In October, linguistics expert and Babbel Live teacher Noël Wolf told Newsweek readers that the key to cracking the game is to "familiarize yourself with more words." "Expanding your vocabulary for Wordle is particularly useful because the game often includes words that aren't used in everyday conversation,

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