Like the video game Animal Crossing, baking sourdough bread and completing 1,000-piece puzzles, Wordle is the latest activity to become a viral sensation during the pandemic. But what is it, exactly?

1:50 V-I-R-A-L: What’s behind the internet’s Wordle obsession? Wordle is deceptively simple to play, but harder to solve than it looks. The once-per-day deduction game asks players to figure out a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about TV shows, movies, video games, entertainment & culture. Not much has changed with the NYT Games app’s popular ...

Since Wordle first launched in October, it quickly became an Internet sensation, attracting millions of daily players who desperately try to guess a new five-letter word each day in no more than six ...

Like millions of people around the world, ­Catherine Blackstock is hooked on a game where you try to guess the daily five-letter word. When she finally got a green square in the Wordle-like game — ...

The New York Times on Friday marked its 1,000th daily offering of the its web-based word game, which took off in popularity in October 2021 — even before the company bought it from software engineer ...