Spotify is closing down Heardle, the Wordle-inspired music guessing game it acquired last July for an undisclosed sum. Similar to Wordle, Heardle offers players six tries to guess a popular song — but ...

Wordle, the daily word guessing game, is taking Twitter, the world, and my relationship by storm. If you haven’t heard of it—how?—the rules are simple. Every day there’s a new five-letter word (a ...

Clayton Ashley, senior video editor, has been producing and editing videos for Polygon since 2016. He is the lead producer of the tabletop gaming series Overboard. Concept’s changes to the typical ...

Since Wordle took the internet by storm earlier this year, there has been a slew of imitators competing for its crown. Many of these have been blatant rip-offs—utilizing the exact same premise while ...

Ever since Wordle took the internet by storm earlier this year, there has been an array of imitators competing to reach the same level of success. While many of these word-based guessing games have ...