I love how Wordle is now so popular it's inspiring thinkpieces and thinkthreads (and this thread is one of the insightful ones)
I, personally, am simply appreciating it as something on my timeline that is *not* people bellowing at each other in anger or despair
OK, so I was curious, and I played Wordle. And I have a theory about why it's so successful. The design is ingenious in a very particular way
This is a philosopher of games' theory of Wordle. A thread: