all across social media cryptic colored cubes and from Twitter users to celebrities everyone seems to be bragging about their scores playing a game called wle designed by a software engineer named Josh wle for his partner because she loved word games like the ones in the New York Times wle telling the New York Times soon friends and family were hooked and within months over a quarter of a million people were trying to solve the whle of the day it's the roller coaster of emotions is it part of your daily routine now every morning or if I stay up till midnight the layout is super simple no app just a website without ads or money-making gimmicks its explosive growth spread mostly by whle of mouth feels like everyone's playing it for British fans of an old game show called lingo the felet word guessing might feel a little familiar play p l a i n but in this game no opening hints as you try to solve a felet word in six turns or less so let's say we try stood ah so see that yellow there that tells us we got a couple letters right but in the wrong place okay so how about dotes well the green means the letter O is in the right place how about toads now we've got two letters in the right place and we know there's an a somewhere uh how about t o d a y but in real life it is a lot tougher just ask the queen of Scrabble my genius wife okay about this no what if I don't get it then I am the world champion of the house could there still be another a in this word though haha big spoiler alert the answer is yes sometimes a letter is used twice like in Bol banol is that your final answer yes okay but did you Google it yeah I Googled a lot of words that were not words tomorrow no Googling now one of the biggest things that keeps people coming back it only lets you play once a day which leaves you jonesing for so much more guys I guess I get it yeah so wait are you the wle king of the house or I am right now yeah and I understand Al plays so they say it's supposed to take 3 minutes takes way longer than longer that's fun I love all right thank you gotty that's some good clean fun