It's Rico Daily. I'm Adam Clark Estus. If you've noticed people posting a bunch of

little green and yellow squares in your social media feed, you're not alone. It's part

of a craze around a quirky little game called Wordal. Wordal is basically a very simple,

online, meaning it's not an app, daily word game. That's Fox's Asia Romano, and more than

two and a half million people are playing Wordal every day. The goal is to guess a five-letter word

in six tries or less. It updates once a day, and basically you have six tries, and we'll tell you

based on a series of color-coded letters, how close you are. If you guess a word in the letters turn

gray, that means that you didn't get any of them right. If they turn green, it means that you not

only got the right letter, but you got it in the right position of the word. A yellow square

means right letter, wrong spot. So between those two extremes, you have six chances to guess the

word, and it's surprisingly fun. Yeah, I started playing Wordal, I think about two weeks ago,

and I've noticed in those two weeks a lot of people start talking about it, but I think it's been

around longer than that. How well did it do when it first launched? It's actually started out as a

one-on-one game. It was created by a developer named Josh Wardle as a two-person game that he made

for his partner, and they began sharing it first just between themselves, and then they started

sharing it with their family and friends, and their family just loved it. And so immediately,

because their their family and friends were so enthusiastic, I think they knew they were onto

something. When it launched in October, it basically kind of spread organically through word of

mouth, basically just from people sharing it on social media and in private group chats and text

chats with their family and friends. So pretty low key, I think probably people playing it over

the holidays boosted its visibility. So now we kind of have this sort of sleeper viral hit, if you will.

Can you tell us about how people are sharing it? I'm picturing it in my head, but I wonder if you could

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