Wardle, who is from Wales, said he played cryptic crosswords when he was younger. But he didn’t really get into them until he heard Craig Mazin, the showrunner of HBO’s Chernobyl and The Last of Us series, talk about them on the Scriptnotes podcast.

Josh Wardle had a hell of a tough act to follow. His last game, Wordle, became incredibly popular thanks to its blend of simplicity, clarity and shareability. Over four years (and a seven-figure sale of Wordle to The New York Times) later,

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See, there are two types of Wordle solutions: good words and preposterous ones. A good word is when you hit all five on the third attempt, and get bragging rights among your friend group, especially over the unlucky ones who couldn't hack it.

Parseword is from the creator of Wordle and is a real head scratcher

The new game is trickier than guessing a five-letter word in six attempts.

The world of Wordle is expanding: The New York Times Games is launching a “Create Your Wordle Puzzle” feature that will allow users to go beyond just playing the popular word game, and instead develop their own one-word challenges. Debuting Thursday ...

The creator of Wordle has returned with another word game based on cryptic crosswords, and it's completely free to play.

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