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Speaker 0 00:00:00 First, it was a New York times crossword puzzle. Now Wordle has taken the crown as end-user new trending game and low key addiction. If you haven't heard of Wordle, here's the breakdown. Wordle is an online daily word game. The goal is to guess a five letter word in six tries with every try calling you in on what letters you're getting. Correct. There are three different colors, gray for one. The letter is not a part of the word, yellow when the letter is in the word, but in the wrong spot and green, when the letter is in the right place, the game has skyrocketed in popularity with over 300,000 people playing it daily, according to the New York times, even Google has switched its icon so that when you Google Wordle, the classic tiles of the game animate to spell it, the browser's name, which is why it came as no surprise. When people found out that earlier this week on Monday, the New York times company bought the game for around seven figures. Have you done?
Speaker 1 00:01:02 I actually did do it in my last class, but
Speaker 0 00:01:05 Where did Wordle come from? Created by Brooklyn war engineered. Josh Wardle. The game was released back in October, but became a sensation in mid January. I decided to ask Northwestern students what got them interested in playing the game. McGill junior Trent brown told me he saw a Wordle on Twitter for the first time.
Speaker 1 00:01:24 Um, I definitely saw it on Twitter and saw people posting those weird emoji squares. And I was like, what is going on? And then I saw it in like a random Twitter reply. Someone explained what it was and linked it. And I was like, oh, this seems fun. And then I kind of got hooked because it's so simple and easy. I
Speaker 0 00:01:38 Also asked students what their go-to Wordle start word
Speaker 1 00:01:41 Was. Okay. So I used to start with a GEA, like the French word. Um, but then me and my friend would share our responses and he clued on that. I always started with a Jew. So he basically got like a free guest because he could suss out which of those letters were in it. So now I just kind of go with whatever is the vibe of the day
Speaker 0 00:01:58 And your news own Sarah Kadara. Our executive producer said she actually doesn't have one.
Speaker 2 00:02:04 I just feel like it's more fair if I, I mean, nobody made that rule, but me to do a different one every day, but I usually try to make sure that it has at least like two hours and like some common continents. So I do, like I rate, um, audio is a good one.
Speaker 0 00:02:23 Yeah. And w and you, our reporter, Alison rock also likes to use the word a do my,
Speaker 3 00:02:29 I do, because I feel like that's a D I E you like French for by, right? Because you get most of the vows.
Speaker 0 00:02:37 It's a good programmer and game developer. Tyler Glendale wrote an article for medium on the most mathematically, correct Wordle start word. They all says that the word rote, R O a T E is the best start word while res R a I S E maybe the best word. If you want to go the extra mile and impressively landed on your first, which there is a one in 2,315 chance of getting, I decided to try this out myself, and this was the result.
Speaker 4 00:03:08 Hi everyone. So this is me doing the word old. Um, as I said, I'm going to actually try using the word wrote, um, for the word all today. So let's see how that goes. So I went with rope and I got one green letter and one yellow letter. So still, no, still nothing. I don't like those. I feel like RO kinda mystery up. Not gonna lie. No, the art is not there. Um, I have two chances left, so I better get this. Right. And there we go. I think that this was a great experiment because I definitely think wrote, messed me up. I don't like it as a start word. So maybe, maybe Glendale was wrong. I don't know. Um, but yes, that's my advice. Don't start with roots. Stick with the words that you like, because I also feel like it just made me like more confused, but yes.
Speaker 0 00:04:28 Now go forth and take on your Wordle of the day. If you haven't already for a w in your news, this was Mariak online.
