{"id":2745,"date":"2022-02-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/uncategorized\/wordles-success-is-based-on-learning-from-the-past-letters\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T14:41:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T14:41:32","slug":"wordles-success-is-based-on-learning-from-the-past-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/wordles-success-is-based-on-learning-from-the-past-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Wordle\u2019s success is based on learning from the past | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Paul Dowling,<\/strong> <strong>Janet Fraser, Rob Doran <\/strong>and<strong> Ian Elliott <\/strong>remember playing earlier versions of the game before Wordle&rsquo;s viral explosion<\/p>\n<p>I was amused to read your editorial (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/feb\/02\/the-guardian-view-on-wordle-let-the-game-stay-free\" title=\"\">2 February<\/a>) about the internet game Wordle, created by Josh Wardle for his partner and subsequently sold to the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>I used to play this game on paper in the 1990s with my wife at the time and have included a brief discussion of it in my book Sociology as Method. I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pauldowling.me\/tmr\/readings\/Chapter%201.pdf\" title=\"\">describe the game<\/a> as a recontextualisation of a board game called Mastermind, which was played with coloured pegs rather than words. One player placed an arrangement of pegs hidden at one end of the board, and the other had to try to deduce the arrangement before the board was filled with their incorrect attempts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/feb\/04\/wordles-success-is-based-on-learning-from-the-past\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Dowling, Janet Fraser, Rob Doran and Ian Elliott remember playing earlier versions of the game before Wordle&rsquo;s viral explosion I was amused to read your editorial (2 February) about the internet game Wordle, created by Josh Wardle for his partner and subsequently sold to the New York Times. I used to play this game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wordle\u2019s success is based on learning from the past | Letters - Regional technology news - North - TechSparx - Business technology stories in the North<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/wordles-success-is-based-on-learning-from-the-past-letters\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wordle\u2019s success is based on learning from the past | Letters - Regional technology news - North - TechSparx - Business technology stories in the North\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Paul Dowling, Janet Fraser, Rob Doran and Ian Elliott remember playing earlier versions of the game before Wordle&rsquo;s viral explosion I was amused to read your editorial (2 February) about the internet game Wordle, created by Josh Wardle for his partner and subsequently sold to the New York Times. 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