News Summary

• In 2021, Josh Wardle launched the wildly popular word game Wordle.
• Then in 2022 the New York Times bought the game.
• If you're unfamiliar with Wordle, it asks players to figure out a five-letter word in six or fewer guesses.
• There are four color-coded difficulty levels for each game; yellow is the easiest, then green, then blue and finally purple.
• In Strands words can appear forward, backward, top-to-bottom or any number of ways.