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1. www.newyorker.com › why-you-cant-resist-wordleWhy You Can’t Resist Wordle - The New Yorker

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   Jan 20, 2022 · Thi Nguyen, a philosophy professor at the University of Utah and a scholar of games, wrote a Twitter thread, on January 12th, offering “a philosopher of games’ theory of Wordle.” Games are ...

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3. www.smithsonianmag.com › smart-news › heres-why-theWhy the Online Game Wordle Went Viral, According to ...

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   Jan 21, 2022 · The source is the latest pandemic craze: an online game called Wordle. The goal is to guess a mystery five-letter word in as few tries as possible. “After each guess, the color of the tiles will ...

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4. sciencefocus.hkust.edu.hk › demystifying-wordle-aDemystifying Wordle: A Crash Course in Information Theory

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   Wordle is not just a one-guess game; your next guesses also matter, and it can be useful to see how the next guess plays out when you use your first word. By also considering the average information obtained from an optimal second guess, we get that the best first guess is “SLANE”, a type of spade in Ireland, giving an average of 10.04 bits in the first two guesses [3].

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6. www.psychologytoday.com › intl › blogThe Psychology Behind Wordle

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   Jan 23, 2022 · Wordle is a new word puzzle that has taken the internet by storm. Wordle's immediate performance feedback and strong social media integration may trigger the brain's reward system. Downward social ...

7. www.cst.cam.ac.uk › news › science-behind-viralThe science behind that viral Wordle video… | Department of ...

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   4 days ago · Published by Rachel Gardner on Monday 21st February 2022. When a natural language processing PhD student made a TikTok video on how to calculate the best first word in Wordle – the online game of the moment – it went viral, attracting more than one million views. So he's followed it up with another explaining the maths involved.

8. www.psychologytoday.com › gb › blogThe Psychology Behind Wordle | Psychology Today United Kingdom

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   Jan 23, 2022 · Wordle is a new word puzzle that has taken the internet by storm. Wordle's immediate performance feedback and strong social media integration may trigger the brain's reward system. Downward social ...

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   Who is a philosopher of games' theory of wordle?

   • C. Thi Nguyen, a philosophy professor at the University of Utah and a scholar of games, wrote a Twitter thread, on January 12th, offering “a philosopher of games’ theory of Wordle.” Games are all about agency, Nguyen told me the other day by phone—what a player can do in a game and how the player is motivated.

   Why You Can’t Resist Wordle

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   Is wordle a maths game?

   • So now he's followed it up with another video to explain the maths behind his thinking. Wordle is a highly addictive game where players must guess a mystery five-letter word in a maximum six attempts. To make things harder, they are offered no hints (such as an initial letter) on where to start, but must simply dive in with an opening guess.

   The science behind that viral Wordle video… - University of Cambridge

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   Is wordle a fun game?

   • At first, the game used all five-letter words as solutions, Wardle tells Slate ’s Nicole Holliday and Ben Zimmer, but he says that wasn’t very fun. “Think about it—if the first time you play Wordle, the answer is a word you’d never heard of, I think you would feel cheated,” he tells Slate.

   Why the Online Game Wordle Went Viral, According to Psychology

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   How many times has wordle been played?

   • Wordle has a single daily solution, with all players attempting to guess the same word. During 2023, Wordle was played 4.8 billion times. Wardle created the game to play with his partner, eventually making it public in October 2021. The mechanics are similar to the 1955 pen-and-paper game Jotto and the television game show franchise Lingo.

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   Who created wordle?

   • As reported in the Times, Wordle was created by a software engineer named Josh Wardle (get it?), late last year, partly as a gift to his partner, Palak Shah. During the first year of the pandemic, the pair had dived into popular online word games created by the Times, such as Spelling Bee, a daily anagram puzzle, and the paper’s daily crossword.

   Why You Can’t Resist Wordle

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   How does wordle work?

   • In Wordle, players guess five-letter words. Players start out by typing in a five-letter word and then receive feedback on whether each of the individual letters of their guess is part of the target word at all, and whether they are in the right spot, or not. If a letter is not part of the target word, it is marked in grey.

   The Psychology Behind Wordle | Psychology Today

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10. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › WordleWordle - Wikipedia

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    Mode (s) Single-player. Wordle is a web-based word game created and developed by Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle. Players have six attempts to guess a five-letter word, with feedback given for each guess in the form of coloured tiles indicating when letters match or occupy the correct position. Wordle has a single daily solution, with all ...