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Benzinga
Benzinga
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Chris Katje

What Is Wordle? How To Play The Hottest New Free Puzzle Game Everyone Is Talking About

A new word guessing game is taking over social media mentions and providing bragging rights to those who can successfully complete a once-a-day puzzle.

What Is Wordle? Created by Josh Wardle, Wordle is a daily word game named as a play on the creator’s name and it being a word game. Wardle created a similar prototype back in 2013 but scrapped the idea after his friends were unimpressed.

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