Tech
Are you obsessed yet?
Your Twitter feed is littered withgreen and gray squaresand cryptic conversations about mystery words.
The answer is six letters long: Wordle.
Instead, Wordle takes just a few minutes of your time every day.
Played the Wordle for the day already?
Youll have to wait until midnight for the next one.
By the first week of January,over 100,000 people were tweeting about the game.
How Do You Play Wordle?
Wordle is very easy to play (though winning is another story).
You have six chances to guess the five-letter word-of-the-day.
bang out in your first guess manually with the keyboard.
If you get a letter right, it will turn green.
If you get a letter right, but its in wrong place, it will appear yellow.
If the letter doesnt appear in the word at all, it will appear gray.
If you guess the right word on the first shot, youll get a notification that youre a genius.
Everyone has the same advantage (or disadvantage) here.
Unless of course you freeze up when put on the spot and cant think of any five-letter-words.
Which, according to Twitter, is a pretty common phenomenon.
(For example, playing WEANS, then GROUT.)
Well, turns out that hack only works in Wordles Easy Mode.
Wordle has aHard Modethat only lets you guess words that include previously revealed letters, Mashable reported.
(And boy, did that take some time to come up with.)
(For example, playing WEANS, then STINK, then SCANT.)
(Those dang double vowels!)
), how lucky your guesses were, and then analyze your word choices, guess by guess.
This will copy an emoji-laden, spoiler-free link to your clipboard.
Hit Paste on a Twitter draft to see your Wordle success spelled out in emojis.
To avoid ruining the fun for others, dont screenshot the actual game until the next day.
Because if you dont share your Wordle score on Twitter, did you even 2022?
This article was originally published onJan.
