How a Simple Word Game Became an Internet Sensation
How a Simple Word Game Became an Internet Sensation
How a Simple Word Game Became an Internet Sensation
January 22,2022
By Devon Frye
Summary
For the uninitiated, Wordle is a game that requires the player to guess a five-letter word within six attempts.
The player starts off with a random guess, and the game tells the player how many letters in their guess also figure in the actual word of the day.
The game may be just the right amount of "Challenging." I've been playing Wordle for over a week now, and have encountered only one game in which I couldn't guess the correct word at all.
Read any article on the psychology of game design, and the word motivation will come up multiple times.
Game designers think so much about how to motivate their users to keep coming back to the games they create, and Wordle might have just chanced upon the solution-release one word a day.
The anticipation that Wordle players feel about playing the game each day may be what keeps them coming back and releasing just a word a day likely aims to ensure that the game doesn't get stale.
The webpage of Wordle currently has no distracting elements such as advertisement, and the rules of the game are simple and easy to learn.
Reference
Frye, D. (2022, January 22). How a simple word game became an internet sensation. Retrieved February 22, 2022, from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/parenting-neuroscience-perspective/202201/how-simple-word-game-became-internet-sensation