Guess This in Six Tries: The Wordle Quiz

Every answer is a five-letter word, and the player has six tries to get it right.

Yellow means the letter is somewhere in the puzzle but not in the spot you chose for it. If the tile turns green, you've found its correct spot. If it stays gray, that letter is nowhere in the word, so keep on moving.

You want to use a word with at least three vowels to increase your chances of hitting some correct letters from the get-go. Mathematically, one expert said the best word for getting a fast solution is "roate," whatever that means. Others like "raise" or "adieu" (four vowels!)

The game's creator, British software engineer Josh Wardle (get it???), designed the game to make his partner happy. Awwww!

The Wardle says you can play the game in three minutes but there isn't any time limit in the game itself.

The game's creator has pledged that his game will never feature advertisements or try to get the player's information. In fact, he doesn't charge for it at all and doesn't plan to make money off of it.

Although pretty low, the odds of guessing the correct word right away are still way better than winning the lottery.

The addition of the share function in December 2021 was all it took to launch Wordle into the collective consciousness. The ubiquitous graphics posted all over social media all of a sudden made everyone else either hate it or want to try it.

Wardle's Wordle is only available online, at powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/. The versions you might see in an app store are just copycats.