Background

NYT Wordle is a popular daily word puzzle created by Josh Wardle and now hosted by The New York Times. Each day, players have six attempts to guess a five-letter target word. After each guess, tiles change color to indicate correct letters in the right place (green), correct letters in the wrong place (yellow), or letters not in the word (gray). The game’s simplicity, social-sharing feature, and one-puzzle-per-day constraint have driven widespread appeal.