#  Professor Steven Pinker tries Wordle 

 





January 25, 2022

 

 

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 It’s simple, it’s free, it’s addictive, it’s [Wordle](https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/). But what makes the online daily puzzle so appealing? And what parts of the brain are being activated when players try to guess a five-letter word in six tries? The Gazette turned to [Steven Pinker](/people/steven-pinker), a psycholinguist and Harvard’s Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, for answers.

 Read the full article in the [Harvard Gazette](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/01/pinker-tries-wordle/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020211025%20(1))



 

 

 



 

 

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