Wordle walked so WRDS could run
Wordle proved a tiny word game could own the internet for a year. The genre is wide open, and the next one is already in the Remix feed.
Wordle is the most important game of the decade and it's basically Mastermind with letters. One puzzle a day, a shareable grid of green-and-yellow squares, and suddenly the entire internet had the same five-letter problem on the brain. Scrabble and the NYT Spelling Bee had the bones; Wordle found the loop.
Here's the thing about word games: the format is nowhere near tapped out. The Word category on Remix is where creators keep finding new twists on letters-and-guesses — and because it's a feed, you don't wait a day for the next one, you just keep playing.
WRDS is the proof point — a word game that scratches the exact Wordle itch without the 24-hour cooldown. Play one, play ten, play until your vocabulary gives out.
The genre Wordle reopened is still wide open. The next great word game is one swipe away.