Word games are oozing with reasons for people to love them: they're quick and relatively easy to play, and they quench a dormant thirst to solve a puzzle. Josh Wardle, a software engineer, knew his ...

Josh Wardle, a software engineer based in Brooklyn, created the game for his partner, Palak Shah, who loves word puzzles, and named it Wordle as a play on his last name, according to The New York ...

For the past week, my family and I have started a new text message thread. It’s a sacred space. Each message is typically three words long, something like “Wordle in three.” Yes, like plenty of others ...

You might have seen those rows of colored blocks on your social media timeline in recent weeks, but what do they mean? They're from a simple but immensely popular word game that has captivated the ...