When the online letter game “Wordle” was released in 2021, only 90 players were interested in it in the first month. The principle is very simple: every day you have to find a new word consisting of five letters. There are a total of six attempts and players can use colored clues to see which letters they have typed correctly. The entertaining puzzle quickly captivated many people; at the end of 2021, 300,000 people worldwide were already playing “Wordle”. Already over a million in the second week of January 2022.
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