Here's why we can't stop playing 'Wordle'

The waning days of 2021 introduced us to a new genre of tweet: Green, yellow, and grey boxes arranged in a 5-wide grid with as many as six rows. The tweets also include some indecipherable-to-outsiders numbers and a funny, little non-word: Wordle.

Maybe you've asked Google about this yourself already. It's easy enough to find...