The Origins of Wirtle

Josh Wirtle is a computer programmer who has an MFA. He's from Wales originally, lived in Brooklyn at the beginning of the pandemic with his girlfriend and they were big word game players. They came up with this idea, five letters, six guesses, and she worked with him to pair down the list. There's probably over 12,000 English words that count,. So she edited down the list to words that felt like fun and easily playable.