WORDLE is the word! by Sarah Nicholson
Is it too early to stick my neck out and predict the word of 2022? I’m not sure what odds I’d get but the word WORDLE would have to be a strong contender. As I type this, I can say with utter certainty that I have a 25 day winning streak, I can’t believe I’ve been playing it for over three whole weeks. It's crazy , perhaps I am addicted, but a quick scroll through my twitter timeline shows I am not alone . I’m sure I don’t need to spell out what it is but in case you have somehow missed it, WORDLE is a word game where you quite simply have to guess a new five letter word each day. You get six attempts and after each guess your letters change colour, (or even color as WORDLE uses US spelling!) green if you have put the right letter is in the right place , yellow means a letter is in the word but in the wrong place and grey if the letter is not in the word at all. As many people have remarked it’s very like the old board game of Mastermind – if you...