This year, Wordle has dominated the Facebook and Twitter feeds of millions of people as they try to guess a single five-letter word each day. It's similar to Mastermind, but limits participation to one attempt per day, making it a daily routine. Wordle's success is incalculable, or at least it's worth at least a million dollars for its creator after its sale to The New York Times, which manages the rights and is therefore turning it into a board game.
The popular online puzzle game Wordle is being adapted into a multiplayer board game, which some gamers would call a "party" game. These games are designed for quick, uncomplicated fun without the need to explain complicated rules. Because they're easy to bring out at parties and social gatherings, they're called "party" games, although the term is sometimes used pejoratively by more experienced players to criticize a game for being too easy and short.
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The New York Times, which purchased Wordle earlier this year, has partnered with Hasbro to bring the daily pastime Wordle from the digital world to the physical one. It will arrive in the form of “Wordle: The Party Game” later this year.
While in Wordle you play alone throughout the day to solve a specific word, in the board game it will become a simultaneous group activity. From what has been seen in the video, it will consist of a player thinking of a five-letter word that other players have to try to guess first. Once people have guessed, the word thinker will place translucent yellow and green tiles on the correct letters. The riddles are done with dry erase markers on small dry erase boards, so once the round is over you can wipe the boards clean and play again.
It looks like an easy game to bootleg, one that ultimately derives heavily from the classic MasterMind. But the intention here is to use the brand and graphics to create an official game. To confirm that it's easy to do, we checked the Tabletop Simulator Workshop, and yes, a mod exists to add Wordle as a board game to Tabletop Simulator , long before the official announcement.
Source: The Verge