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Speaker 1: Jam Mission with Jones and Amanda Brendan. Have you heard

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Speaker 1: of wordle It's a word puzzlely think. It's a word

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Speaker 1: puzzle game that you play on your phone, and it's

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Speaker 1: taken the world by storm. In November, ninety people a

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Speaker 1: day we're playing it. December three hundred thousand people a day.

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Speaker 1: Now three million people a day are playing a wordle Man,

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Speaker 1: we're going to come up with something. Well, I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you how this one works. It gives you six guesses

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Speaker 1: to determine a five letter word, and it changes every day,

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Speaker 1: so it tells you if you've got the letter is correct,

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Speaker 1: and it tells you if you've got a letter that's

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Speaker 1: correct but is in the wrong place, So you get

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Speaker 1: six goes are getting out the word, and it is

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Speaker 1: a different one every day. Harley plays it and Liam

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Speaker 1: plays it, and I sat down to have a look

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Speaker 1: at it. It's a brain conundrum, it really is. But

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Speaker 1: it's not like you can buy a crossword puzzle book

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Speaker 1: and practice. This one just disappears and you can't play

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Speaker 1: old ones. So you're in the moment on that day

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Speaker 1: the jeopardy. I love it risk yeah, And it's been

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Speaker 1: designed by a guy and his name is Wardle, so

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Speaker 1: this is it's Wordle. It's a play on his name,

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Speaker 1: which is mister Josh Wardle. And he designed this for

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Speaker 1: his wife. She liked word games, so he just made

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Speaker 1: this for her and he and a few friends were playing.

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Speaker 1: They put it on a WhatsApp group with relatives and

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Speaker 1: it just got bigger and bigger, and then for free

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Speaker 1: he released this. And that's what people have loved about

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Speaker 1: it is the nice nature of this. It was built

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Speaker 1: without a team of engineers, which is him and his

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Speaker 1: business partner who wanted to kill time during the pandemic

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Speaker 1: and give people something to do. So it's snowballed obviously,

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Speaker 1: and New York Times have just bought Wardle, and so

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Speaker 1: people are wondering what does this mean, because New York

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Speaker 1: Times have said initially it will still be free, but

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Speaker 1: maybe in the future. It's assumed you'd have to pay

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Speaker 1: for it. But mister Josh Wardle himself told people, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I've made this deal. Rumored to be around million dollars

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Speaker 1: or something like that. I've made this deal and I've

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Speaker 1: just wanted to tell you all how much I've loved

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Speaker 1: you all playing my game. People have shared their stories

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Speaker 1: of how they've loved playing it through a difficult time

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Speaker 1: in their lives, so most people aren't begrudging him. He's

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Speaker 1: good fortune in selling this. I saw an interesting tweet

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Speaker 1: yesterday though, this guy said I got into a heated

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Speaker 1: debate on Twitter about politics. I looked at the guy's

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Speaker 1: profile and noticed he was right into wordle. I applied.

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Speaker 1: I played that game's that day's game. Just after midnight,

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Speaker 1: I messaged him the spoiler. I made his day a

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Speaker 1: little bit worse getting people back through Wardle do wordle.

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Speaker 1: And if you look on Twitter, for example, people every

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Speaker 1: day upload how long it took them to do it

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Speaker 1: without they note that you don't give away the answer.

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Speaker 1: It just shows you how many goes it took you

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Speaker 1: to get it. We've got to come up with something

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Speaker 1: we could make me and I'm going to make a

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Speaker 1: game based on Fred Bassett. Everyone loves Fred Bassett. What

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Speaker 1: about mine games? You're always playing those? I'll charge it.

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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's gamation