Why is Everyone Playing Wordle?

Why are there so many green and blue emojis al over Twitter? In this clip Marques explains what Wordle is to Andrew. This was recorded previously so it can't spoil the word of the day for you!
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[@ymi_yugy3133]

Finally a fun, casual game idea that no MBA ruined for maximizing play time and revenue.

[@djrt8179]

hahahahaha Edit: just so people are aware, I'm 100% pro-Wordle selling to NYT. He doesn't owe anyone anything. It's just funny when people think "oh finally, something millions of us can play and there's no ads or product placement". Internet doesn't work that way, unfortunately. Someone has to pay to make this all happen.

[@harrydsymons]

spoke too soon

[@maamiimii]

😬

[@TheStevenWhiting]

Will change now New York Times owns it. But while its still in its current form you can all just grab the code for offline play as everything is client side. Its just two files, the index.html file and the js file.

[@alalal123421]

its a shitty boring game that boring people play

[@gregor9921]

I think it's a great way to make your vocabulary more versatile, because you have to creatively think of words. It's also both small enough to be played casually and big enough to not just be a cookie clicker, perfect for the subway or a lunchbreak

[@warrust]

i feel like a lot of the time I end up just guessing combinations and see which ones sound right

[@Eyeofthetiger69]

Agreed with your thoughts about making your vocabulary more versatile. Whenever I guess an unfamiliar word, I immediately look up its definition.

[@jaystarr6571]

Are you familiar with The LaSalle? Or maybe The Prophecy of The Shadowy Clown?

[@elkellenhabla]

I disagree… for starters the words are limited to five letters and then your guesses are limited by your correct letters from your first guess. Lastly the answers are generally common words like “favor.”

[@C3yl0]

Use an online dictionary that will make your vocabulary versatile because you will know the meaning and when to use it. Lol

[@misterdragzon]

It’s like Lingo. Also the guy built it for his wife as a present, and it’s just spiraled out of control. Don’t envy the server bill

[@y0ur_m3rcenary7]

This isn’t multiplayer so it wouldn’t need very big servers

[@ClaudeSchneider1]

And just sold for 7 figures to the NY Times…

[@ShaferHart]

You meant partner. Wife is apparently a no no word now (purposefully kept out of the NYT article for example).

[@rvure]

@@ShaferHart nah mate it's not that it's a no no word, they're just not married

[@pchris]

I bet it generates the word using the date on your phone as a seed so it probably doesn't have any server bill. If you have it, try changing the date on your phone and see if the word of the day changes. Not everything needs to be online connected. The most elegant designs are the simplest ones.

[@m6isme]

There's also no ads on the site which is nice and refreshing. It's a clean experience.

[@spellbinder3113]

In England we used to have a game called Mastermind. Where one player creates a choice of colors that is hidden from the other player and the other player then has a board (similar) to Wordle to guess the combination.

[@2Shocks]

Not just England, that is a huge game worldwide

[@JeffreyHage]

Lingo is a television game show that aired in the Netherlands between 1989 and 2014.

[@gregor9921]

You should use the strategy to - if you have like 3 greens already - choose completely different words just to eliminate letters

[@4ndro]

If you activate the hard mode this cannot be done tho

[@MikeAltogether]

Good strategy in theory, but usually by the time you have three green letters, there are only one or two possible words left. A good strategy if you get a lot of yellows though.

[@1will2kill]

Hard mode is the way

[@jc-bo5nf]

If you have 3 greens, it shouldn't be too hard to get, but with more limited info, it does make sense to make a word that you know isn't the answer just to gather more info. For example, if you put the word plate as your first, and nothing is yellow or green, and then thoft as your second, and h and o are yellow, then putting the word horde is reasonable for a casual player wanting more info, even though it can't be the correct word, since e was gray in the first word plate.

[@sg3428]

@@MikeAltogether Not the day the word was Light, so many other options where there for me - fight, sight, might, night, etc.

[@koentje8415]

So basically Wordle is like Lingo, a Dutch game show where you guess words by spelling it out. If a letter is in the correct spot it turns orange, if a letter is in the word but not in the correct spot it will turn yellow. So on so forth. It used to be crazy populair in the Netherlands until it was cancelled.

[@fjordstrom]

* hears the audience yell "GROEEEEN" *

[@MrPietje]

Or mastermind :)

[@jonasimpe]

GGRROEEEENNNNN

[@smhislief3]

jaaaa ! exactly what I was thinking of

[@NaaimSiddiqi]

The Dutch version of Lingo is actually based on the US version which aired from 1987-88 and was revived a few times on Game Show Network!

[@marcgains6605]

The TV show in the UK is called Lingo. It’s been around since the 80s, and recently re-launched. The game premise is exactly the same.

[@vedaryan334]

This is probably the alphabet version of mastermind or something code related. This pattern of indicating if it's correct , in correct place or incorrect is used in so many places. Brilliant way of combining it with words

[@theophanemayaud]

Yeah I was thinking of mastermind too !

[@helloitsmealex9853]

I have been playing mastermind with my mom and I found this on twitter and showed it to my her and we have been playing the past few days.

[@megumin4564]

Mastermind was the first thing that came to my mind as well but this is harder because you have to make an actual word out of it

[@alexmiddleton2276]

@Andrei Salvaleon Unless there’s another variant of the mastermind board game, then the mastermind board game is nowhere close to being as difficult as Wordle. There’s only seven different options for making a code in mastermind (six colours and an empty space), you can identify all the pieces that appear at least once in the code within your first two guesses. I’ve actually play tested mastermind and found that with the strategy listed above, it’s almost impossible to ever exceed 4 guesses in order to crack the code.

[@ohasis8331]

Ditto

[@johancakep]

What's great about it is I actually tried looking for the wordle of the day answer on twitter and literally nobody spoiled it!

[@writerinrwanda]

Kind of tough for British players as, in the UK, there's no way favour is a five-letter word 🧐

[@Mel0nMel]

Same with Canadians

[@Kromiball]

Former British colonies

[@Mel0nMel]

@@Kromiball true

[@swade98]

Anywhere that isn't the US

[@Kromiball]

@@swade98 Some countries teach American English but still, mostly British English gets taught.

[@desertrose0601]

Thank you. As a 42-year-old old person, I’ve actually been wondering about this. I keep seeing people on social media talking about it like I should know what it is. 😂

[@AlKohaiMusic]

Very much enjoy wordle and it's fun to see so many people jumping into it. It's the right balance of mentally engaging, and zen

[@MLNYD]

I grew up on game shows and Chuck Woolery's Lingo was a favorite of mine so seeing this go viral actually made me very nostalgic.

[@torab1996]

Omg thank you for this video, I had no idea what those box tweets were about lol

[@valerietomsic8454]

GREAT FUN! I'm hooked....sometimes if I can't sleep at night, I'm thinking of a good first word to try the next day. LOL....I'm a word NERD for sure...I love crossword puzzles and Scrabble and Words with friends. The best I've done so far on this is 3 tries. Can't imagine getting it right on the first guess!

[@castortoutnu]

HOUSE ACIDY gets you all the vowels in two guess with some useful consonants

[@1nfinit3]

2022 and we're subverting to word games again. What a time to be alive.

[@2raddude]

It’s the board game Mastermind but with words!

[@sethdavis7073]

I’ve been playing this for the past week after I found out about it from the podcast. I love it!😀

[@novaimsh]

Same

[@jevieyt]

Same, and I like it.

[@mnmmnm8321]

Yeh, sweet as!

[@LyricalLanguages]

I remember the Password gameshow!! I thought everyone forgot about that! That's a throwback for sure🥳

[@danielb.2385]

English is not my first language so it gets puzzling and every now and then educational. Wonderful morning coffee ritual, haven't missed a day since I started playing last month.

[@SinistarFirefox]

Thanks for explaining Wordle to me because I had no idea what it was 😂

[@kushal809]

Awesome video 🔥🔥

[@hajjihbofficial]

Best outro yet😂

[@PranavRajagopal]

It's a great, casual game with no ads

[@lil_danny]

When you said password game show, you might be thinking of the Jackbox Party Pack game "Trivia Murder Party" where they have passwords as as punishment which is similar to wordle.

[@gwiggy]

Fun fact if you play on computer you can see every single upcoming and past word with a couple seconds in inspect element

[@taylordarion3477]

Where in the inspect element?

[@nekogami87]

Was a full game show in France starting late 80’ I think.

[@jahnesaisquoi]

my ap language and composition teacher plays it with us, we all generally get under 3 tries its very fun

[@mightymeowz]

It's like the 'Mastermind' board game, love it!

[@hiimapop7755]

Wordle just reminds me of one of the minigames in Bookworm Adventures 2, but without any time pressure or high score.

[@kevinbueno9174]

Here in Cuba we play a variant of this, but with numbers and it's call caws and bulls, in the sense of if you guess a correct number in an incorrect position is a caw, and if it's in the right position is a bull, I think the level of difficulty is somewhere similar as well 'casuse while it's true you only have 0-9 characters for each position instead of the whole alphabet you don't take into account the cohesion, 'cause number could be random, words you now after some letters is likely to be .... etc, number for each position should nor repeat and must be a 5+ figures number

[@puredruid]

1:20 - I saw this on a gameshow before I heard about Wordle, not sure of the name but there is a UK gameshow that has the same idea.

[@ChrisAlford]

It’s sort of like “Wheel of Fortune”.

[@JOEYMAGIX]

This is just overglorified hangman

[@johnmarcdemisana-school8867]

This is a mini game in Popcap's Bookworm Adventures.

[@lotech_]

its giving wheel of fortune

[@zikoraagbapu5135]

Statistically, the best starting words are RAISE and ROATE

[@srinathpadmanabhan]

Is roate a word?

[@ahmedkamalhasin2070]

Ah finally a good explanation. have been confused until now

[@sotnasyaj]

I found it on my timeline and have been playing ever since. I havent thought to use a go to 1st word so I definitely should implement. so far 3/6 is my best

[@NaptownClassic]

2/6 is my best so far. My first word is usually adieu or another word with max vowels.

[@SuperNikhilm]

My first word is Arise, It has two most common letters "rs" as well as three vowels. 2/6 is my best and 4/6 is my worst

[@bonniemunene5163]

Ohhh its mkbhd.

[@sabzer5476]

This is gameshow on ITV in the uk

[@mettelhed]

It's a no bullshit game with a great sharing mechanic. Sometimes it's the simple things that get really popular.

[@MrFloris]

In the Netherlands we have LINGO on tv for years.

[@Meban101]

I remember playing this same concept of game in Bookworm

[@ehsaasnahata1204]

the game is actually mastermind it has different colour of pins and one of the two groups makes a combination with those colours

[@dipz6479]

I’m convinced this game is so popular because there aren’t accounts, and a million adds and shit it’s just a simple free game. It could’ve been any half decent game and it still would have been popular.

[@Meadowheadt]

Basically the board game mastermind, but with words instead of coloured pins

[@lynnhettrick7588]

There's also Nerdle with math equations.

[@keeganbeaulieu7390]

Can you fix the eq settings on the mics. A little audio work and the production quality would go way up! (Ps. Fellow audio engineer :)))

[@Meadowheadt]

You have to know USA spellings to play this, because favor is spelt favour in the UK, as is vapor - vapour

[@47eoghan47]

Shut up

[@Falco.]

This looks like mastermind table game

[@williamdacic]

lol I tried it out the same day you played it on the podcast! Took me ages because I'm not a native speaker and I kept thinking of 6 letter words.

[@kozilla8873]

yes twice as hard for non native speaker 😂 never in my life would I use the word knoll

[@yehdekhlobhai.]

Hey awesome video

[@macdoyal]

This reminds me of trying to Hack a terminal in the Fallout Series.

[@ha8008]

i never put any thought into my guesses, as long as its five letters long and includes the hints i immediately enter it

[@prakash.vishwakarma]

What headphone are you(guy in left) wearing? Looks like audio technica. Model?

[@BLACKLIGHT_NL]

All dutch people know this game, we have it on Television and it's called Lingo 😂

[@constantinmogos]

Never heard about it till now.

[@samasokkar5189]

Wow finally i understand what these pictures are

[@kleigho123]

There is a game show called Lingo, where contestants have to guess 5 letter words for money. I used to watch it all the time when I stayed home from school.

[@tariqphoto]

In the uk it’s a game show called lingo

[@detailsmove]

I finally tried it as this video was playing and got the word on the second try

[@BassBanj0]

Love how it looks completely different on iOS compared to android

[@VaibhavShewale]

simple idea great execution! and thats how you make millions

[@UpintheAir1395]

So it's basically the gameshow LINGO. anyone remember that show? I enjoyed it.

[@StruC]

Wordle = Mastermind - but for words

[@ShaferHart]

5:48 you're so innocent Marques, they're going to put more daily words as a "pro" feature soon.

[@iszybeethefirst]

Had to know what's it about before going into it 😂

[@SirGenesis206]

The game is literally Lingo. Which was one of my favorite game shows ever. Maybe I’ll download this.

[@jaysonbunnell8097]

I highly recommend Absurdle too lol

[@andrewlewis653]

I assume someone has said it but the game show is Lingo with Chuck Woolery

[@Apple-xt4vp]

Her King

[@sk.towhidurrahaman4764]

The magic is when you search for world, google logo changes like wordle

[@MrCblase]

This is like the game Mastermind, but with letters instead of colored pins

[@feb0599]

Wheel of Fortune!!

[@635574]

This is the most server efficient thing ever it just sends 5 letters

[@yoismak]

I am listening to this podcast while playing Wordle lol

[@NickBotha]

Learnt something today

[@Katkayz]

Wordle looks cool let me download it , haven’t studied English since high school . Time turn back the years Thank you for recommending it

[@malcolmcastelino6968]

its like mastermind

[@A.Chr992]

In France we call this game MOTUS and it has its own show

[@tadgh459]

I can't my dyslexic brain can't figure the word out

[@haysdixon6227]

i have no idea why i haven’t heard Mastermind references with this, it’s a very similar game but without the word restriction and with 4 spaces instead of 5

[@elijahdoyle5608]

It's basically the game Mastermind but with words instead of colors

[@ssmytheYT]

I love Wordle! I found out about it from Morning Brew. I agree that one word a day is a good limit! Haha.

[@gloriar3931]

A literary battleship

[@Bobby56288]

8/10 does Countdown is a game show in the UK that has a segment like wordle

[@Lematidas]

It's like the physical game "Mastermind"

[@TFG1Mike]

I actually muted the term wordle on Twitter. I wish I could do that on Facebook too. I'm glad people are enjoying it, but I don't want my timeline just showing all these squares. All the damn time.

[@joeanderson2024]

This game is like Lingo, hosted by Chuck Wollery and later Bill Engvall

[@AndrewCortesi]

It essentially sounds like the board game Mastermind - except with words instead of colors.

[@julietem5274]

Omg I forgot about hq trivia

[@deltellspodcast]

this is just lingo from the old days. i love that someone made a game like it though. someone should make a timed multiplayer version just like lingo was

[@joelmulder]

Hey, this is the Dutch game Lingo!

[@ishanmehta9204]

This is similar to Cows & Bulls, where Cows are letters that are right but at wrong place, and Bulls are letter that are right and at the right place. Though we do not tell the guesser which letter is which. Instead after a guess, we just tell guesser the count of cows and bulls.

[@NeerajKumar-xs9vp]

Jan 28, 2022 : PANIC

[@discovery999able]

This game is like the modern day version of hangman