Everyone playing the game is trying to guess the same word, each day. Once you finish the puzzle, the game gives you the option to share your results using a graphical depiction of how your game went.

It's a free word game. The mission is to guess a five-letter word in six tries or less. After each guess, the tiles change colors. Green means it's the right letter and it's in the right spot.

The idea is reported to have been devised by novelist Lewis Carroll for his children, Julia and Ethel Arnold, on Christmas day in 1877, calling it ‘word-links’.

Here's how to play Wordle, a simple yet addictive online game that’s taking the world by storm. In Wordle, a new word game, it's one mystery word, six guesses.

A simple, daily word-guessing game, Wordle's premise is straightforward. You have six tries to guess the five-letter word of the day. After each guess, Wordle will color code the letters of your word.

Nearly 2,500 words were chosen by Wardle’s partner, Palak Shah, to be included as correct words for the game. However, there are more than 10,000 possible words that players can guess.