WORDLE, Innovation, Startups and Failure

Chris Kalaboukis
3 min readMar 6, 2022

Have you played WORDLE? If you haven’t, you’ve likely been under a rock — it’s a super popular word game that a developer supposedly invented as a time-waster while he was waiting for his girlfriend. The gist of it: you get six guesses to find a common five letter English word. If you hit a letter in the right place, the tile goes green. If you hit the right letter in the wrong place, the tile goes green. If the letter…

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