Wordle has been turned into a board game, but it probably shouldn’t have been

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Hugely popular online word game Wordle has been adapted into a party board game that’s set to release this October.

Having purchased Wordle earlier this year, The New York Times has partnered with Hasbro to bring the free-to-play viral game to the tabletop. As CNN(opens in new tab) reports, Wordle: The Party Game looks much like the original, but allows you to play with a group of up to three friends using dry erase boards and whiteboard markers.

In the board game, one player will act as the “Wordle Host”, who thinks of a secret five-letter word for the other players to guess. You’ll have six attempts to land on the secret word, racking up points by successfully guessing it in as few tries as possible. Like the original game, the Host will also place translucent green and yellow tiles over any correct letters to provide you with hints.

Check out the game in action in the video below:

Love Wordle? Gather friends and family together to enjoy the favorite word-guessing game in real life with Wordle: The Party Game! Available for pre-order now on #HasbroPulse! pic.twitter.com/ihgsZj9NpXJuly 14, 2022

Expectations for a Wordle board game have never exactly been high. Few people were asking for a tabletop adaptation of the hit word game, but even this attempt by Hasbro to turn the solitary phone puzzler into a four-player party game doesn’t look to have hit the mark.

From Hasbro’s rundown of the game, it doesn’t actually appear particularly suitable for parties. There’s very little player interaction, with each guesser working independently to discover the secret word. In fact, you might be best off not talking to your fellow opponents at all, lest you accidentally give them a hint that spurs them to victory. It all sounds rather