Over the Christmas holidays, I started noticing lots of people posting images of some sort of grid composed of coloured squares in my Twitter timeline. Then the hashtag #wordle provided a name and it became apparent that all this activity was to do with some sort of game. Eventually my curiosity got the better of me and I did a Google search and discovered the exact nature of Wordle. The game was originally created by software engineer Josh Wardle for his partner, Palak Shah. Family and friends played the game and it proved popular. So Wardle then decided to make it available online, last October. By November 90 people were playing Wordle. However, after a share online button was added to the game the audience rapidly grew. As of 2nd January it had over 300,000 players with several high profile celebrities among that number.