Wordle, the viral word guessing game, explained

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Wordle is set to be 2021’s last viral trend, if Twitter is anything to go by anyway. Over the past few weeks or so, you may have seen your friends on social media posting a bunch of different colored squares and boasting about their limitless vocabulary. That’s because a new game called Wordle has taken social media by storm.

But what is Wordle exactly? How can you play it? And what do those colored squares mean? Here’s everything you need to know about Wordle.