In the cool of winter, developer Rikito Ohnishi played Wordle, an English-language word game that has shot across the internet with blistering virality. It was, he wrote, straightforward and interesting: A new puzzle every day, with a single five-letter-word solution, discovered through six consecutive guesses.
But he had one qualm.
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