Until I became a wizard I have never played Wordle. Of course, I knew it was there since both Twitter and Facebook had been filled with black, yellow and green squares from people playing it.
I’m busy enough without another addiction in my life, but I did wonder if I was missing out on something special.
So, when Breathing Stories’ Wordle Wizard popped up on my Geek Native radar as a new indie game on Itch, I took notice.
It’s a sort-of-RPG game, and you’re a wizard.
BreathingStories has set the game as a Name Your Own Price, and Itch suggests $2, which I paid. However, you get two pages of unformatted PDF, an idea and an example. I’d suggest paying $1 to support the creator.
Here’s the idea. Wordle is a ritual, one that you as the Wizard uses to solve the problem that, every day, someone from the nearby village brings to you.
You use the number of guesses it takes you to finish Wordle to determine the power of your ritual and use the shape and colours of the resulting picture to interpret the results.
To be honest, it’s a bit of a stretch, but it does mean I can see the still plentiful incoming social media shared Wordles in a new light. I get to imagine each of those Wordle grids as a magical solution to a puzzle.
In other words, I’m not playing Wordle Wizard as intended, but I’m still having fun with it. If it doesn’t trigger an “Aaaah, no more Wordle” reaction in you, then maybe it’ll give you a new lens for the Wordle craze too.
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