The Quiet Obsession Sweeping the Nation: Are You Out?

I was living my best life--working at my new amazing job, promoting my new store, starting to sell some things, managing mom chaos, and crushing videos with my kids...

OR SO I THOUGHT. It turns out the whole world is obsessed with something that wasn't even on my radar. I mean, I'd heard the name, but I guess I thought it was just some random name of a generic type of crossword puzzle. I was today years old when I found out the truth about...

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WORDLE. 

Do y'all know about this game? You say yes, but DO you really? Apparently, it's a daily game that EVERYONE seems to know about except ME! The part that I didn't understand until today is that everyone is working on the same WORDLE. Is that how I say it? Like 'everyone is working on the same puzzle [wordle]?! I asked my AI friend, like, 'who puts out the daily game and answers, who is they? God?' He laughs and tells me, 'Not quite, but basically--the NY Times.' Did y'all know that before the NY Times took over Wordle it was originally created by Josh Wardle, a Welsh software engineer? See, now I need to invent something like Wordle. We can call it 'RODZ.' See what I did there? For Rodriguez!

So, when I heard this news...My. Jaw. Dropped. 'I've been alone in the internet void?!' I screamed internally, after an audible GASSSPPP. My husband would likely call me dramatic right about now, but I feel like I just came out of the stone ages, and everyone else has been living modern life without telling me it was a thing! I teeter on the verge of even feeling betrayed. I'm just saying. My KIDS knew about this gaming phenomenon and never mentioned it. I bet they're champs at it. My husband has probably been winning money at it, while I sit in the dark. Okay, all jokes aside, let's talk about the game really quick.

Apparently, it's ridiculously addictive (can't be worse than Farmland and Fish World) and easy too:

1. you guess a five-letter word
2. you get colored feedback:
   1. green = correct letter and spot
   2. yellow = correct letter, wrong spot
   3. gray = completely wrong, on both counts
3. ex: guessing HOUSE when the answer is MOUSE would look like:
   1. H O U S E (it's hard to see, maybe, but that was gray, green, green, green, green)
4. ex: guessing HORSE when the answer is MOUSE would look like:
   1. H O R S E (again, hard to see, but that was gray, green, gray, green, green)

I'm trying to think of an example with yellow in it, but my brain isn't working quite right. Ugh.

So anyhoo...I may or may not start with this wordle trend. I haven't quite decided, y'all. How many of y'all play? Drop your answer below for me!