Wordle - A Vocabulary Game
Hello there! I was cruising the internet the other day when suddenly I found myself in Twitter surrounded by these green, gray and yellow square grids. So of course, being the noisy person I am, followed the hashtags to the answer of this new trend that was stalking my timeline. The answer to this incognita is called Wordle and is a word game first created by the New York Times which consists in a new word each 12 hours. How do you play it? And most importantly why do I think it helps in education? The game is simple in itself. A hidden 5 letter word for which you have 6 tries to find. Once you type the first word the letters will change colour according to the degree of accuracy you've placed the letters with. If you were correct the letters will turn green, if the word has the letter in it but in the wrong place they will turn yellow, and if it's not in the word it will turn gray in both the game and your keyboard. And so you continue trying until you hit the word of the d