In this file illustration photo taken on Jan 11, 2022 a person plays online word game “Wordle” on a mobile phone in Washington. (AFP photo)
PARIS: Wordle, the simple word game that has taken the English-speaking world by storm, is sparking spontaneous efforts to develop similar games for other languages.
The English-language app poses a simple puzzle: it thinks of a five-letter word and challenges the user to guess what it is in six tries or fewer. The magic formula has persuaded the New York Times to open its wallet and buy the app.
Versions have sprung up in every corner of the globe, covering anything from German to Urdu.
And Hong Kong linguistics professor Lau Chaak-ming reckons he has cracked a Cantonese version.
He developed a game using “jyutping”, a method of transliterating Cantonese into the…
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