What is it about some games that capture the attention of hundreds of thousands of people?
Wordle supposedly has a daily user base of 250,000 people. Its popularity has grown largely because of word of mouth. Friends tell friends. Friends form wordle groups to whom they send their stats daily. Soe people post their stats on Facebook.You can also get your own statistics on any given game that also shows you how your starting word compares to the words other players used.
On a site called gitnux.og, some interesting stats are provided about the game:
65%of surveyed Wordle users play the game daily
43% of users guess the correct word in 3 tries
The average number of guesses to discover the correct word is 4.71
72% of users have told their friends about Wordle.
The most common starting words are: slate, crate, stone, smart and plant.
On the very rare occasions when I get Wordle in two guesses, I wonder if there’s a psychic component to the game. I stare at it long enough and suddenly, something in the back of my mind clicks and I’ve got it in 2 guesses. But other times, I sit and stare at it and nothing pops into my head. I guess and guess and lose.
Considering the game’s popularity, its creator, software engineer James Wardle, should have been paid a lot more than a million for the rights to this game!
