There’s no question about it. Wordle, the simple English-language word game created by software engineer Josh Wardle, is a viral hit.
If you’ve tried Wordle, there’s a good chance that, like me, you’re hooked. Since the game quietly hit the internet in October 2021, the number of people playing has grown exponentially: from some 90 players in November 2021, to 300,000 at the start of January, to more than 3 million today. As you can see in the graph below, the number of people looking up Wordle on Google has increased rapidly over the past month.
