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Improve at Wordle with my Wordle Trainer!

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 What do you get when you force a large population to stay at home for months on end due to a global health crisis? The sudden rise in popularity of a 5-letter word guessing game of course!  When the Wordle craze reached my social circles, I tried my best to ignore it. As an avid player of strategy games (both board games and video games), I wondered why such a simple game, restricted to the confines of the English lexicon, deserved such attention. Yet after a few attempts, I was hooked. Over time, I have come to understand why people love this game so much. With each attempt, the game gives users enough information to make a guess at a word they usually  already know . Wordle is rarely a test of knowledge/vocabulary, but a test of logical reasoning (primarily process of elimination), and a general understanding of the English lexicon (e.g. words tend to have vowels). Additionally, like the crossword, Wordle presents exactly the same challenge for all users every day, which promotes fr