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Only One Word A Day: Creating Scarcity
Another of Wordle’s uniquely compelling aspects is that a new puzzle is only offered once a day. That helps keep the experience fresh and novel and allow players to really relish the experience.
Because you know that there’s only one [puzzle a day], maybe there’s some scarcity involved.
This may be the only fun little thing you’ll do today, so maybe people savour it.
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Sharing Reality
There’s another reason that sharing our Wordle grids with others — and seeing them shared back — feels so good.
It’s a striking example of what psychologists call the shared reality theory, or our need to align our own internal, s...
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Social Comparison: Those Squares On Twitter Feeds
Those grey, green and yellow boxes populating your social media feed aren’t just visual clutter — they’re a testament to the game’s built-in shareability. Since everyone is trying to guess the same answer, Wordle has quickly become a virtual water cooler, allowing players to share scores with col...
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Wordle: The Game Everyone Is Playing
Wordle, the online game — a puzzle that tasks players with working out a mystery word — has quickly become a viral sensation, with around 300,000 players at the start of 2022. By...
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The Concept Of Wordle
The game’s concept is simple enough: Once a day, players are given six chances to guess the correct five-letter mystery word. (If you guess a letter correctly, one of the tiles in the game’s grid turns yellow; if you guess the right letter in the right place, it turns green.)
The s...
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The A-Ha Moment
As we get closer and closer to the answer with each new guess, we get a little bit more confident that we’re on the right track.
Our brains are probably computing the likelihood that the next guess is right. Then, when those five green letters are revealed at the end of the puzzle — even if...
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Can't Stop Playing Wordle? Science Might Be Able to Explain Why
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