Wordle hit the world in 2022 when it peaked in interest and exploded all over social media. Twitter and Messages were filled with yellow and green squares, a product of individuals screenshotting their Wordle success. But what are some benefits of the game?

Wordle was first launched in October 2021 by Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle. Within a month the game had ninety players, but by the beginning of January, the game gained 300,000 daily players. The next week, the game had over two million players, thanks to The New York Times buying the game.

The game works by allowing players six attempts to guess a five-letter word. Feedback is given for each guess through green and yellow tiles, indicating the letters in the word and where they go. Players can only play the game once daily, with everyone playing to guess the same word. This factor makes the game unable to binge and hard to become boring. The game also has no ads and is free to play.

Wordle has been proven to boost your cognitive skills. One study found that doing puzzles and word games improves memory, attention, the executive function of the brain, and information processing. Another benefit of these word games is that they challenge your brain and allow you to expand your vocabulary. The skills we need for learning words are semantic and phonological skills, which is what most word games use.

Sharing your results with others makes it a great way to start conversations with others. This increases the socialization of people as well as families! “It really brings my family together. We have a whole group chat on messages for sharing our scores,” (Stacey Zaccagnini).

People have been shown to lead happier lives as well as have lower rates of depression and anxiety. Word puzzles, like Wordle, can be used as brain training. It is suggested that this training can delay or improve symptoms of dementia. Challenging your brain with Wordle can help boost your problem-solving skills.

In conclusion, challenging your brain with Wordle and other word games can help boost your problem-solving skills, lower depression and anxiety rates, and improve memory and attention. Your mental health can also benefit from word games; it can help you decompress and give stress relief. Wordle truly is a wonderful trend that can benefit anyone!