"Wordle", the online word game that drives people crazy on social networks

Do you know Wordle?

Five letters, six essays, and one word to discover per day.

This online game is very successful on social networks in the United States.

"It makes you addicted", confides to AFP Susan Drubin, an American daily player of

"It's great, it only takes you a few minutes, and it's a nice little distraction," adds the 65-year-old retiree from Maryland.

According to the

, on November 1, 90 people had tried to find the word of the day.

Two months later, on January 2, they were over 300,000.

Childish concept

The principle is childish, and close to

(

 !): It is a question of guessing the famous word of five letters, in six tries maximum.

Each letter guessed in its right place appears in green, a good letter misplaced in yellow.

For all of them, it is a question of finding the same word every day.

If this fails, you have to wait until the next day.

After starting playing it a few weeks ago, Susan Drubin has joined the thousands of players who share their daily scores on social media with the hashtag #Wordle, and six rows of five colored rectangles showing how many tries they are taking. have elucidated the riddle.

A non-profit game

Part of what is special about

is that it was designed by computer engineer Josh Wardle not to be sold to the general public, but simply as a means of entertainment. This Briton, living in New York, has decided not to monetize the game. "People are enjoying this stuff online that is just fun," Josh Wardle told The

.

"doesn't try to do anything fishy with your personal data."

No advertising appears on the site, but some have already taken to wanting to copy the principle, and to make money from it.

For Mikael Jakobsson, research coordinator at the Game Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

be classified in the category of "hobby" games.

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