“Inexplicably” ... a very simple game sweeping the Internet at the beginning of 2022

“Inexplicably”, a simple puzzle game that has managed to interest millions of Internet users at the beginning of 2022, which consists of green and yellow squares.

The game is “Wordle”, based on guessing who plays it for a word of 5 letters, giving him 6 attempts. Yellow, while gray tiles mean that the letter is not in the word at all.

The game "Wordell" was launched in a very modest way, which was designed by software engineer in the American neighborhood of Brooklyn, Josh Wardle, as something he plays with his girlfriend, Palak Shah, and in October 2021 it became available to the masses, and by mid-January it gathered two million players, according to the newspaper "The Guardian". Britain, and the agency "Sputnik".

As for the secret behind the attraction of millions to the game “Wordell” so quickly, the British psychologist, Lee Chambers, explained that it was very attractive because it stimulated the language and logical processing areas in the brain like all games, which leads to the release of “dopamine”, a hormone that allows feeling With happiness and contentment.

Word is web-based, so there is no official app to download, and it can be played using a smartphone or desktop browser.

Wordle gives the player only one puzzle per day, and once you guess the correct word, you won't get another word until after midnight.

Wordel designer Josh Wardle told the BBC that he had no plans to include ads in his game, nor did he collect or do anything suspicious with any player data.