SINGAPORE – “Bojio”, “kiasu” and “aiyah” – these are simply a number of the five-letter phrases that characteristic in Phrase-leh, the Singlish spin-off of viral on-line phrase sport Wordle.
And it’s turning into a sensation of its personal, drawing greater than 50,000 guests so far, a couple of third of whom went on to truly play the sport.
Its creator, New York-based Singaporean Sha-Mayn Teh, says in an e-mail interview: “I used to be very stunned that Phrase-leh unfold so shortly. I made Phrase-leh to play with associates and immediately there was stress to have a stable thesaurus.
“As soon as Phrase-leh acquired a thousand guests, I made a decision to purchase a nicer area.”
Ms Teh, who has a background in software program engineering and has led engineering groups at Google and start-ups, used an open supply clone of the unique Wordle sport to create Phrase-leh.
She despatched it to associates on Feb 1 and launched it to the general public on Tuesday (Feb 8). By Wednesday afternoon, it was so in style that she relaunched on a brand new area, word-leh.com.
Phrase-leh’s gameplay is just about an identical to Wordle. Day by day, gamers have six makes an attempt to guess a five-letter phrase, with inexperienced blocks indicating a accurately positioned guess, whereas yellow blocks mark out an accurate letter within the unsuitable place.
However the place Wordle makes use of frequent English phrases for its options, Phrase-leh invitations members to guess the key Singlish phrase, from “makan” (eat) to “bojio” (no invitation/lacking out).
Singapore actor Hossan Leong was an early ambassador of Phrase-leh. On Tuesday, he tweeted about it, inviting netizens right here to strive it out.
