While there are several clones of the popular, simple word-guessing game Wordle, the original retains cachet as the Wordle.

I wonder how much of it flows from its originality (like a piece of art – innumerable copies/derivatives but the original is what is in museums).

And how much of it is the very particular design choice to limit it to one puzzle a day, so that everyone around the world is solving the same Wordle. A strong social facet of a game that has no intrinsic social game-play at all: