Wordle: What to know about the online word game after its purchase by The New York Times

Wordle has only been part of our online lives for a few weeks but for many, the popular puzzle game has become a bona fide T-H-I-N-G.

Developed by New York software engineer Josh Wardle, who released the game in fall 2021, Wordle's playing audience skyrocketed from only 90 on Nov. 1 to 2 million by mid-January, Wardle told TechCrunch.

The goal of the free-to-play game: Guess the hidden five-letter word within six tries. With each attempt, any correct letter you get shows up in a green square if it's in the proper place. Letters appear in a yellow square if they are in the word but you haven't guessed their proper position. Any letter not in the word gets a gray square.

As interest in the game grew, players began posting their results on Twitter and Facebook, which helped attract more players – and draw scorn from non-players bitter about the viral spread of Wordle results posts in their social feeds.

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