Games like Connections require players to be flexible in how they access information in semantic memory in order to find new or remote associations between words.
(New York Times)
Like a Scrabble habit, a passion for Wordle isn’t likely to make you smarter or ward off brain aging. But it may give you a daily dose of complex cognition combined with social interaction.
Wordle has become an obsession online, with over 3 million daily players around the world. But the game has more in common with code-breaking than it does with crosswords.
It’s a simple word with a strange history.
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