PHILADELPHIA -- "Guys, I am obsessed with Wordle." "Can't stop. Won't stop." These are just some of the things being said by players of the game Wordle. It's a free word game. The mission is to guess ...

Word games are oozing with reasons for people to love them: they're quick and relatively easy to play, and they quench a dormant thirst to solve a puzzle. Josh Wardle, a software engineer, knew his ...

Josh Wardle, a software engineer based in Brooklyn, created the game for his partner, Palak Shah, who loves word puzzles, and named it Wordle as a play on his last name, according to The New York ...