In news which almost certainly has every other newspaper in the English-speaking world kicking itself for not getting there first, the New York Times has spent upwards of £1 million to acquire the cosy, daily online word game Wordle, which was originally created, adorably, by software engineer Josh Wardle to entertain his partner, who loves puzzles.
In case you’re not one of the faithful, it works like this: every day you get six tries to work out a new five-letter word. Your first word is a guess (there is some debate as to whether it’s worth just being random here or “tactical” with lots of vowels) and then each letter changes colour to indicate whether it a) does not appear in the correct answer, b) does appear but in a different location, or c) appears where you have it. Then you try again.
