The company that makes some of the world's most iconic board games including Scrabble, Monopoly, and Clue is developing a new one based on Wordle, the obsessively popular digital word-guessing game.

Yves Guillemot wrote a letter to Ubisoft employees shortly after the company announced XDefiant’s shutdown, as well as layoffs in Osaka, Sydney, and San Francisco, because of this shutdown.

Flying Comet Games creates a variety of online puzzles and word games, including a Seattle-themed “Wordle”-style game. (Flying Comet Games Images) Quick, think of every five-letter word you ...