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This deceptively simple online word guessing game has captured the English-speaking world.
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.
The word ‘OK’ has only been around for 180 years, but it’s become the most spoken word on the planet.
